Example sentences of "of [pron] we [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does seem , though , that when the death of someone we love is sudden it does not have to be that the shock is greater than when we have been expecting it . |
| 2 | For that of which we relate is our interpretation , our presentational continuum coloured not so much by the world as by our own senses . |
| 3 | Jean McSorley , secretary of the local protest group , said simply , ‘ If just a quarter of what we hear is true , that place should be shut down ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Implementing [ by ] a planned training programme — too much of what we do is done ‘ as and when ’ we have the money , time , staff availability , planning time etc ’ . |
| 5 | Cruickshank believes that over the three years the results have been that ‘ so much of what we do is now being delineated by what the users want — the Patients ’ Charter is just one example of that — and health boards are taking much more time to get views , getting people like general practitioners contributing in strategy-setting and so on , so they are less likely to make mistakes . |
| 6 | Look , the question of what we want is a sociological one , which we answer by asking people , or by observing their behaviour . |
| 7 | What it means , of course , is that very often we have different definitions of experience and reality from men , and that much of what we say is critical of men and about what they have done to women . |
| 8 | JAZZ DANCE has caught on slowly in this country , and most of what we see is attendant on musicals , cabaret acts or pop videos . |
| 9 | Simply to decide upon the basis of what we think is best for them can be a form of prejudice . |
| 10 | Let's look at this matter of what we think is plausible . |
| 11 | When asked how the tree came about she said ‘ Well , it 's just like God to make something useful out of what we think is rubbish ’ — a comment which referred not only to the fruit but also to her own convict origins . |
| 12 | We observe only outcomes of what we presume is the exercise of power , and are forced into conjecturing what would have occurred if power had not been exercised . |
| 13 | Erm as the notes to this table indicate , it is a compilation by the panel secretary of what we believe is before us . |
| 14 | The beauty of what we have is that even if some of the programs we currently possess will not provide the sort of answer we want , we can always write one that will . |