Example sentences of "be the [noun] we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These are the conclusions we reached , ’ we said in effect . |
| 2 | Indeed , an extraction set may not be based on the denotation of any noun explicitly mentioned at all ; an equally valid extraction set for ( 19 ) might be the creatures we had shot that day . |
| 3 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 4 | ( This sentence is in the passive voice because the words " impartiality " and " impersonal " were the ones we wished to fix in your mind as you read the sentence . ) |
| 5 | You see , there are two ways to get to Fedorov 's : the road , which is the way we went , and the towpath , which on foot is actually quicker , but impassable by carriage . |
| 6 | The second aspect of the school meals changes are with that alternative meal saving and would best be introduced erm if members were to decide that this is the way we wanted to go from April ninety five rather than in Sept September ninety four as suggested and attached to the report and that delays the savings , but achieves the same saving but not until nineteen ninety six seven and you will see that the figures have been amended and to take that into account and that 's on line fifty four B appendix ten . |
| 7 | And this is why I think the approach that Harrogate would perhaps be thinking of and we ourselves would be thinking of if this is the way we wanted to go is simply to go out and get a site and get planning permission on it . |
| 8 | One of the distinctive features of ‘ Documenta IX ’ is the way we selected the 186 artists taking part . |
| 9 | On the phone to all her cronies at this moment , I do n't doubt , and this is the year we hoped to get the swimming pool appeal off the ground . ’ |
| 10 | If all firms behave in a similar way to this , then we can say that aggregate investment in the economy will depend on changes in aggregate demand — both of these have to be measured in value terms and since the value of aggregate demand in equilibrium is the same as national income , we have which is the expression we started with . |
| 11 | All I require is the payment we agreed on . ’ |
| 12 | So what you want then is the sheet we did a few weeks ago just about the erm |
| 13 | This is the case we anticipated in the last paragraph . |
| 14 | Oh this is the night we arrived . |
| 15 | This is the night we arrived , we were looking at photos look . |
| 16 | We 're going to erm , item three , the supermarket applications , now under youth grants , you remember that we advertised , this is the money we precepted , which we wo n't be using for the detached youth work workers ' scheme . |
| 17 | This is the time we went to the beach in Italy . |
| 18 | Our main reason for this is the argument we referred to when discussing denunciation : that to punish disproportionately is to convey incorrect moral messages about the relative gravity of offences . |
| 19 | Now this is in his key messages , and towards the back , there are two pages , where he complains that many promises were made for the facilities management contract , and in particular , erm , he says it is still the case that work to take advantage of the development faci facility has not yet been identified , now I think this is the thing we spent a million pounds on it , and are not using it . |
| 20 | No cos that 's the mistake we made . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , there 's the villages we rode through , ’ said Fenella , frowning . |
| 22 | That 's the question we asked last week , well because they 're chairman of the board . |
| 23 | Yes there 's absolutely nothing on it , that 's the problem we had |
| 24 | I mean , tha that 's the problem we got at the moment . |
| 25 | " Look , Chuck , there 's the man we met on the boulevard tonight . " |
| 26 | Well that 's the day we went to the sea . |
| 27 | ‘ Why , she 's the girl we waved to just now ! ’ cried one of the Brownies , gazing hard at Brenda |
| 28 | And erm that 's the way we went . |
| 29 | One of the nice aspects of a task such as that is that I think we , as professional physicists — and I 'm a physicist too erm we , as professional physicists , feel there 's a right way of doing something because it 's the way we learnt and we 've got used to , and we tend to instil this idea into other people . |
| 30 | It 's the way we got our house . |