Example sentences of "is the [noun] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giles Estwick has got an airline to sponsor one of those international exchange schemes , and Flo is the jock we 're sending to this station in Hawaii for three weeks . |
| 2 | The ‘ nominal essence ’ of the clock is the idea we have of it and , as with gold , this will vary from person to person . |
| 3 | Similarly , a figure of three lines enclosing a space , which is the idea we have of a triangle , has various properties as a consequence of being constructed in that way , properties such as having internal angles equal to two right angles , and external angles equal to internal opposites . |
| 4 | But it 's still at your , if it was going to another sector I could understand that attitude , but when it is being , it 's still within Intercity , I just can not understand that that is the attitude we take . |
| 5 | If dross is the price we pay for freedom of expression , there is nevertheless a point at which such dross may become pernicious . |
| 6 | Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’ |
| 7 | Is the price we pay for a few moments of Mills and Boon romance too high , leaving an aftermath of bitterness , boredom and let-down ? |
| 8 | The starting point for the Dobry inquiry was the lengthening delay in the processing of planning applications , but Dobry was quick to point out that ‘ not all delay is unacceptable : it is the price we must pay for the democratic planning of the environment ’ . |
| 9 | which is the price we were looking at , it 's not too cheap and it 's not too expensive |
| 10 | I mean death is the price we pay for life , and at some point or other it 's very desirable to depart from this world certainly . |
| 11 | So what is the voltage we are going to measure ? |
| 12 | Staff who have worked in the homes become institutionalised ; they say this is the way we 've always done it . |
| 13 | Identification is part of our survival kit ; it is the way we are . |
| 14 | That , I believe , is the way we all want to live — a decent life in a civilised community . |
| 15 | That is the way we can live : celebrating our achievements , not nurturing old grudges ; enjoying our successes , not talking Britain down . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're an arrogant little shit , and this is the way we treat arrogant little shits round here , and we do n't give a flying fuck who your fucking parents are ! ’ |
| 17 | It is the way we do so which counts . |
| 18 | Inner/outer Face : This is the way we think others see us — although we may be wrong . |
| 19 | Since this is the way we read , it is easier and more natural to work in this way . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This is the way we jump out of bed |
| 22 | This is the way we jump out of bed |
| 23 | Other verses are : This is the way we dress ourselves , clean our teeth and brush our hair . |
| 24 | When I used to be involved in the old days , people used to say : ‘ I 'm from Coopers , I 'm from Peats , and this is the way we do it' ’ . |
| 25 | But skipper Rupert Moon insisted : ‘ We have the players who can run the ball and that is the way we like to play our rugby . |
| 26 | On income tax — ‘ That is the way we mean to go on , taking more and more taxpayers out of the 25p tax by widening the band . |
| 27 | One of the distinctive features of ‘ Documenta IX ’ is the way we selected the 186 artists taking part . |
| 28 | This bottom-up approach may well be a very fruitful way of trying to understand what language is and how it works , but that does not mean that it is the best way to teach a language , or that it is the way we use a language when we do know it . |
| 29 | look , this is one we 're introducing this is the way we in in intend to use it . |
| 30 | It is the way we are made . |