Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb base] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be dead easy to reform the CAP at our farmers ' expense and simply shovel the money across to other farmers , which appears to be the Labour party 's proposal , but we do not share that view ; we must ensure that it is a balanced proposal and that in the United Kingdom , where we have efficient agriculture , the efficient farmer has a long-term future . |
| 2 | The concept would be difficult enough if it were only at this level , where we say that music , dance , painting , sculpture , poetry , drama , fiction , film have crucial properties in common , which suffice to distinguish them , as a group , from other human practices . |
| 3 | It probably matters little where we choose that point as long as it is not at infinity . |
| 4 | Operational matters are for the Governor , but I think it is important to bear in mind that although we know that violence was used in the early stages we have no evidence that anyone now still in the prison is in danger and you 've got to ask yourself in those circumstances whether you should risk injury or even death in storming the prison when as far as we know nobody remaining inside is now in danger . |
| 5 | It apologised for his distress , adding : ‘ We have recently re-staffed the Middlesbrough office and although we take great care in choosing recruits , unfortunately occasionally people do let you down . |
| 6 | In two successive years , I have pointed out that , although we take serious action on giving access to Members of Parliament , we take little action on , and treat with scant seriousness , the question of access to this place for disabled people . |
| 7 | ‘ Although we have good employee communications , we thought it best to produce a publication tailored specifically to allay the fears of our fund members . ’ |
| 8 | There 's a second-hand Spector NS2A here at £1495 , although we have new Spector four and fives coming in soon at £1995 , which is pretty good considering they used to be £3000 ! |
| 9 | He said : ‘ We have no plans to close it down again although we have that power . ’ |
| 10 | Although we have little opportunity to meet the participants socially , there is very little sense of social barrier , and I wonder what all these western myths about the ‘ inscrutable Chinese ’ mean . |
| 11 | it 's just the surround , although we have more surround , well no not more surround here , but it 's a different layout |
| 12 | Quite how the storm is generated is still something that we 're investigating , although we have some idea of what causes its generation . |
| 13 | Although we consider this dictionary as a respectable edition , the definition of the Gompertz-Makeham law is not correct there . |
| 14 | If you complete this section of the Application Form we can pay the life assurance benefit , subject to a maximum of £5,000 , to your nominated beneficiary provided he or she is over age 18 , immediately we receive official evidence of your death . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've got more than we need this season . ’ |
| 16 | We do not yet know whether any other church in the U.K. has raised more money than we have this year . |
| 17 | And what we do with the eyebrows , we do n't just use a pair of tweezers we actually use wax , so if you 've got quite a lot of hair underneath your brow , we never take from above the brow , just below , if you 've got quite a lot of hair , it can be painful if you 're just using tweezers , so what we do now we use a little bit of hot wax , which is pink , so we put some wax under the brow , either side , let the wax erm , cool and set , and then pull the wax off . |
| 18 | But we know that people disagree to some extent about the right principles of behaviour , so we distinguish that requirement from the different ( and weaker ) requirement that they act in important matters with integrity , that is , according to convictions that inform and shape their lives as a whole , rather than capriciously or whimsically . |
| 19 | commitment to sending them to college , so we lose one day a week for a start . |
| 20 | But ca n't we think about re-phrasing that so we get this idea of this joint statement , some sort of dialogue on |
| 21 | The mate used to get erm on the dredger the tug and the two dumb hoppers , or the dumb hoppers they used to get four pound five shillings a week and erm and my father got five pound twelve and six and then it went so long we were given near the end of the dredger and er in the Harbourmaster 's wisdom he cut us all down five shillings a week , so we get three pound fifteen shillings . |
| 22 | ‘ But we have never made door to door collections , so we know this man has nothing to do with us , ’ she said . |
| 23 | ‘ So we follow that route , ’ Paula said firmly . |
| 24 | Just as we give more weight to the views of an impartial judge , one who is not a party to the dispute in question , than to a partial one , so we give more weight to an impartial moral opinion , one expressed by a person who is not directly involved in the situation being assessed , than To an interested party . |
| 25 | There is an overland trade-route now , so we do less business with them . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ So we have one hour left ? ’ |
| 27 | Many of us here present today have worked for our employers for over two years so we have some protection under law . |
| 28 | We do n't smoke or drink , so we have some money to spare . |
| 29 | And it 's a patch clamp recording which has been done in an inside-out patch , that is with the physiological inside of the membrane facing the bathing medium , so we have experimental control over what the er physiological inside of the membrane is seeing here . |
| 30 | ‘ Then at the end , it 's always too long , so we have this business about cutting . |