Example sentences of "we [vb base] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Touche Ross are wasting their time and our money , and we regret that they 've taken this action . ’ |
| 2 | Their problems are so deep and the solutions will take so long that it will hold back political and economic progress in western Europe if we insist that they are brought into the fold sooner rather than later . |
| 3 | We suggest that they should be regarded as potential heart and cornea donors . |
| 4 | They are the guiding fictions which we repeat to ourselves so often , and with such conviction , that we forget that they are simply themes in a script we have written , and act as if they were true . |
| 5 | To distinguish such phenomena from more dubious data , we propose that they should be renamed ‘ UAPs ’ , for unidentified atmospheric phenomena , as this seems to be an appropriate and adequate description . |
| 6 | What matters is that we realise that they are being friendly , so we shout back , ‘ It 's a lovely day today , is n't it ? ’ , or some such thing which they probably will not hear anyway , but the idea of friendliness has been transferred , and both people are happy , although the words were quite unintelligible . |
| 7 | Such distinctions are valuable only , I believe , once we realise that they are not alternative , but , rather , mutually supportive . |
| 8 | If we say that they do have something in common with other things that look white we must remember that their having something in common simply is their looking white . |
| 9 | We may not be able to say no to those people ourselves , because we imagine that they are as susceptible and sensitive to rejection as we are . |
| 10 | Because all known ureilites are much too small to have sustained high energy impact on the Earth , we conclude that they acquired their diamond-lonsdaleite intergrowths when their parent bodies collided with other objects while hurtling through space . |
| 11 | ‘ The programme enables pupils to gain practical experience of the world of work , ’ she said ‘ and we hope that they return to school more confident and mature and better equipped to make informed decisions about their future . ’ |
| 12 | As managers , we hope that they will do the right thing . |
| 13 | We can only guess at Allan Lamb 's motives for his article in the Daily Mirror , but we hope that they are nothing so base as money or even worse our nationality . |
| 14 | Whilst they are here , we hope that they rub away at the image of Birmingham and find its reality . |
| 15 | We hope that they enjoy working at Crediton . |
| 16 | We are er overseeing them , as we do with other contractors , but it is , it is the district and it 's their own contractor and we hope that they will improve their performance . |
| 17 | In all three cases the changes in the host , if we accept that they are Darwinian adaptations for the benefit of the parasite , must be seen as extended phenotypic effects of parasite genes . |
| 18 | We accept that they will be shut down for improvements , accept the loss of production capacity and profit . |
| 19 | Miocene/Pliocene trondhjemite , tonalite and ignimbrite comprise the final magmatic event ( 5Myr ) in the central Andes of Peru ; we consider that they were produced by partial melting of lower crust that had recently been , or was still being , thickened by magma underplating . |
| 20 | We complain if a band stays away too long ; we complain if they outstay their welcome . |
| 21 | GDO or ODG are random collections of letters , not signs ( unless we suspect that they are unfamiliar acronymics , or words in an unknown language ) , but DOG is the signifier of a sign whose signified is what is elsewhere understood by chien , etc . |
| 22 | We infer that they accumulated during periods of accelerated soil erosion . |
| 23 | Almost all animals are either in danger of being eaten by other animals or in danger of failing to eat other animals , and an enormous number of detailed facts about animals makes sense only when we remember that they are the end-products of long and bitter arms races . |
| 24 | With children , the presupposition is that we take the responsibility until they show us that they want it ; with adults we assume that they take the responsibility unless they show us that they do n't . |
| 25 | There are probably about 50 stars within radio range if we assume that they have had radio technology for only as long as we have . |
| 26 | All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them . |
| 27 | We hear that they made a few proposals of an undetermined nature which we are sure do not involve recording contracts … lives of the rich and famous , eh ? |
| 28 | We know that they did not see Jungle Book and Popeye was the supporting item for Peter Pan . |
| 29 | We know that they could live in extremely shallow to very deep-water environments , that most lived on or near the sea bottom , but a few were adapted to open-ocean swimming . |
| 30 | ‘ They may be sympathetic and may want to try to help , but we know that they treat the symptoms and not the cause . ’ |