Example sentences of "[pron] we [vb base] our [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes thought that rigorism can take adequate account of what seems troubling here by recognizing that if we ask too much of ourselves we damage our power to do good by becoming worn out or embittered . |
| 2 | I ask my colleagues therefore to rest on the position that the way in which we coordinate our decision is a matter internal to Government and not to answer questions about the Cabinet Committee system . |
| 3 | The context in which we develop our speech styles and identities is one of omnipresent patriarchal relations . |
| 4 | The way in which we put our food over there actually got it to the places for which it was intended . |
| 5 | There is a crying need in Russia for British books , which we hope our scheme will go some way to answering . |
| 6 | The implementation of Columbus will take time and it will involve major changes to the way in which we conduct our business . |
| 7 | Any money paid by a customer to a Travel Agent in respect of a booking for a holiday in this brochure is held on behalf of the customer until the date on which we despatch our confirmation of your holiday booking . |
| 8 | We must set some guiding principles for the way in which we run our business , worldwide . |
| 9 | It is the information with which we feed our computer , our unconscious programming and our negative reactions to these images — or even our imaginations being used negatively — which all fuel fear . |
| 10 | Adherence to tradition , Hailey wrote , in a discreet display of the higher cynicism , ‘ valuable as it is , is only a means of securing acceptability of the institutions on which we place our reliance , and acceptability is the essential quality which they must possess ’ . |
| 11 | Section 3 discusses ways in which we validate our model using theory consistency checks and a statistical diagnostic test . |
| 12 | For the three cones indicated , we show to the left their individual absorbance spectra , which are typical of those on which we base our classification ; the solid curves fitted to the data are templates based on the Dartnall nomogram displaced on a log frequency abscissa . |
| 13 | Today , we live in an increasingly artificial environment , and are much less aware of the natural cycles on which we base our system of time . |
| 14 | An alternative is a data-driven approach in which we base our investigation of first impressions on people 's experience , observations and accounts and then develop informal theories on the basis . |
| 15 | Further , as is often the case , the clinical conditions might be regarded as rather extreme cases of variability in the ease with which we adjust our body clock , a process that is found normally within the human population . |
| 16 | I truly believe that each of us had held on in there not only for ourselves , but also for the women we are destined never to meet in person , but with whom we share our motivation to create a world where our creativity is valued . |
| 17 | In his book , One Hundred Days in Europe , he wrote : ‘ Our recently naturalized fellow-citizens , of a different blood and different religion , must not suppose that we are going to forget our inborn love for the mother to whom we owe our being . ’ |
| 18 | The gift of the Holy Spirit is the seal of his part of the contract ; by committing ourselves to him we put our name to it too . |
| 19 | Mourning leads to happiness when through it we sense our place within the human family , and our need for God 's love . |
| 20 | I want er , I 'm just asking if er , anyone 's got er , comments to make to Vince and then Vince will reply to them , that 's the point , he 's got to reply to some of the comments er , that er Simon has made and then we 'll come to what we want our response to be . |
| 21 | Exactly what we spend our money on does not matter too much , as long as the money going out is not more than the money coming in . |
| 22 | David Hume begins the section of A Treatise of Human Nature on personal identity with the sentence : ‘ There are some philosophers , who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our SELF ; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence ; and are certain , beyond the evidence of a demonstration , both of its perfect identity and simplicity ’ . |
| 23 | But I mean , we have got nine beat officers for the whole of the Harlow Town area and just th , this area this is the start of what we call our beat eight this is the boundary along Southern Way , and that goes down as far are familiar with the area of Staple Tye most of you ? |
| 24 | Firstly , I 've just said , our budget protects what we call our Vale strategy , which is an improvement in services for elderly people in the Vale . |