Example sentences of "we [conj] [art] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a long , hard fight , but when it finished , we and the ship were prisoners . |
| 2 | Yet it is sometimes easy to be dazzled by the well-intentioned enthusiasm of a Vicki Hearne , or by false philosophy , into misunderstanding or down-playing the differences , and because it comes naturally to us to say that both we and the dog are angry , or frightened , we conclude that what goes for the human must go for the animal , making certain allowances for sensuous and anatomical variations . |
| 3 | Macijauskas ' photographs tell us that a country is its people . |
| 4 | The ground Hostess took one look at our tickets and told us that a gentleman was waiting to speak to us . |
| 5 | The causal theory could be telling us that a belief is only justified when caused ( directly or indirectly ) by the facts . |
| 6 | Writing of the work of Chardin , whose most profoundly moving paintings are revelations of how trivial , homely , everyday scenes and objects are transformed for us when we see them through the eyes of a great painter , Proust says , " Chardin has taught us that a pear is as living as a woman , a kitchen crock as beautiful as an emerald . " |
| 7 | We receive letters telling us that a notice was put on a board in the office telling people that they could claim . |
| 8 | It has certainly reminded us that the decade is likely to be characterised by low growth and tight competition , and that retailers need to be positioned with a low cost base , flexible work-force and strong retail formats to meet the challenges of the next few years . |
| 9 | Although our commonsense view of the world now tells us that the brain is the seat of mind and action , the idea is remarkably new . |
| 10 | He may have realised earlier than most of us that the King was in the long run unfitted to be King . |
| 11 | One day Johann came to tell us that the King was now very sick , and that Antoinette de Mauban and a doctor were looking after him . |
| 12 | Well erm I know there 's enough people around , the Prime Minister is trying to tell us that the recession is over and so is the Chancellor , well yes , unemployment has now gone under forty thousand within Hertfordshire , it 's under forty thousand just . |
| 13 | Other than that , I would hope this meeting do agree on the recommendations of us that the road is accepted |
| 14 | It is no benefit to us that the work is produced in Edinburgh , because we are not getting it . |
| 15 | A spokesman for Southern Electric , which owns the cables at Haydon Wick , told us that the evidence is still far from conclusive and that no study to date has demonstrated that there are any adverse effects . |
| 16 | Mr Prokhorov said that the answer to the contradiction between political renewal and economic crisis lay in Marxism , which ‘ teaches us that the superstructure is more mobile than the base , and that it is the first to react to a change of conditions . ’ |
| 17 | The Minister assures us that the door is not closed but that we are edging forward . |
| 18 | Now , at the time we had my grandmother living with us , so we had to tell her shut up , erm , and when they rang , er on the door , she , she was n't to sort of , call out and you know , to tell us that the door was ringing , |
| 19 | So now goat keepers are hoping to convince us that the meat is both tasty and nutritious . |
| 20 | Now , the very word ‘ about ’ clearly warns us that the inscription was probably added some time after the event , but all the available evidence does point toward its veracity . |
| 21 | A tip , incidentally , that reminds us that the whodunit is by no means only a puzzle for the reader to solve before the author lets out the answer , but also and always a story . |
| 22 | When Fussell tells us that the war was ‘ so devoid of ideological content that little could be said about its positive purposes that made political or intellectual sense ’ , he shows that he has become the prisoner of his own limited sources , and also of an imagination limited by distaste for his subject . |
| 23 | It appears to us that the point is a thoroughly esoteric one because it postulates that the judges had consented to arrangements for the Inns to exercise disciplinary powers over barristers , subject to their supervision , which infringed some fairly elementary rules of natural justice . |
| 24 | Quantum theory has taught us that the vacuum is not a featureless void but is continuously disturbed by particle-anti-particle pair creation and annihilation and that this endows the vacuum with energy . |
| 25 | Our man on the visitors ' end assures us that the chant was ‘ Big fat Ray 's black and white army ’ virtually throughout . |
| 26 | He wished us the best of luck and advised us that the Brigade was here to stay . |
| 27 | Every Christmas we get a card from the Reverend , informing us that the weather is temperate . |
| 28 | We toasted our success , de Macon informing us that the market was a prosperous one . |
| 29 | It does seem to us that the impetus is lost if the library committee is either unable or unwilling to continue its work or if key individuals in the project subsequently leave the school . |
| 30 | He has come to tell us that the feast is about to begin and we must go down immediately . ’ |