Example sentences of "we [vb base] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the tyres we change are worn to the legal limit . |
| 2 | The diet that we eat is influenced by a variety of different factors , both consciously and subconsciously . |
| 3 | Just as we are all different in our body weight and metabolism , so the type of diet we eat is influenced by factors which differ from person to person . |
| 4 | Unless we are confident that the meat we eat was produced without suffering , the equality principle ‘ implies that it was wrong to sacrifice important interests of the animal in order to satisfy less important interests of our own ’ ( 1979 : 57 ) . |
| 5 | The words we use come to us already imprinted with meanings , intentions and accents of others , and any utterance we make is directed towards some real or hypothetical Other . ’ |
| 6 | The words we use come to us already imprinted with the meanings , intentions and accents of others , our speech is a tissue of citations and echoes and allusions ; and every utterance we make is directed towards some real or hypothetical Other who will receive it . |
| 7 | What is more , we hate being used as political footballs by cynical politicians . |
| 8 | The pelargoniums we grow are derived from wild species native to South Africa , and it 's interesting to see some of these plants in Hazel 's collection . |
| 9 | All of the findings we report are based on the assumption that this questionnaire can accurately and reproducibly detect a change in anxiety , even when the same questionnaire is administered twice with just one hour between each assessment . |
| 10 | The last thing we want is teaching by numbers , reducing learning to a series of mechanistic measured units . |
| 11 | Sometimes we are not convincing because what we say is belied by our actions — for instance , a woman who wears a permanent fixed smile while trying to reprimand a subordinate , or when returning faulty goods to a shop . |
| 12 | Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ? |
| 13 | We are reminded that the romance we seek is constructed for the outsider . |
| 14 | I have always tried , in these cases , to ensure that any diversification we seek is found in an area which is contiguous to our own skill base . |
| 15 | The small , frightened freedoms that we enjoy are underpinned by a global system that requires that they be paid for by rigorous and intensifying dispossession of the poor of the earth , the destruction of the resource-base , the ousting of indigenous peoples who happen to occupy the last remaining deposits of ‘ raw materials ’ to which the global market now stakes its superior claim . |
| 16 | As we have already discovered , many of the problems we face are related to the way we see things , our world view . |
| 17 | the solicitors fee if anyone we insure is represented at a Coroners Inquest , Fatal Accident Inquiry or Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| 18 | the solicitors fee if anyone we insure is represented at a Coroners Inquest , Fatal Accident Inquiry or Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| 19 | the solicitors fee if anyone we insure is represented at a Coroners Inquest , Fatal Accident Inquiry or Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| 20 | the solicitors fee if anyone we insure is represented at a Coroners Inquest , Fatal Accident Inquiry or Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| 21 | the solicitors fee if anyone we insure is represented at a Coroners Inquest , Fatal Accident Inquiry or Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| 22 | The waters on which we travel are released from the penstocks of Glen Canyon Dam , 105 miles upstream , according to the demand for hydroelectric power in cities hundreds of miles away . |
| 23 | Miller ( 1951 ) states that " the information we convey is coded into patterns of words . |
| 24 | As a rule , people do not hear single isolated words , and in the great majority of cases any word we hear is preceded by a context which could in principle be used to assist word recognition . |
| 25 | If we say we know something , a personal and responsible commitment to what we know is assumed in our claim . |
| 26 | All matter that we know is composed of atoms . |
| 27 | We are anxious to express our wholehearted support for the renewal , on a permanent basis , of the Nuclear-Non Proliferation Treaty — an objective which we know is shared by HMG . |
| 28 | Now the maximum number of engines you you 're going to have we know is going to be twenty five . |
| 29 | the last one we know is constricted by where you are at the moment . |
| 30 | One of those situations when any publicity we get is bound to be bad . ’ |