Example sentences of "we [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Naturally we lose some points at the beginning and end ( four in this case ) but this may not be of great importance in a long series . |
2 | Have not we heard planted questions this afternoon that have contained carefully worked-out statistic after statistic ? |
3 | Thus we commend the Bible to be read by the Churches and by Christian families in their homes , as nourishment for their souls , and not to be separated from the sacrament in the liturgy ; we commend modern translations , into the various languages , as a help to understanding ; we commend the people who have the duty of seeking to interpret the Bible in terms of the modern scientific view of the world ; and remind the Churches that all knowledge is of God and therefore that scientific discovery is also part of His work ; and so the world will be brought to know God as its Maker , and the Cross as timeless . |
4 | Even if we raise twenty pounds a performance for it . |
5 | Finally then , as feminists , it is vital that we raise these issues in our trade unions , our work , our political parties and at local grass-roots level , insisting that feminist demands are incorporated into the general political strategy and so broadening the socialist perspective . |
6 | For our purposes , however , no harm will be done if we distinguish two uses of ‘ I believe that … ’ . one in which it expresses the tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , the other in which it expresses the belief or awareness that the speaker has the belief . |
7 | We distinguish three reasons why governments may wish to nationalize industries . |
8 | Sometimes we met other travellers and conversation with them enlivened the boredom : merchants , wandering friars , the occasional hunting party , clerics or landless men looking for labour . |
9 | As before , a guard accompanied me to the barracks ; but this time , on the way back , we met two officers : it was exactly what I had hoped for . |
10 | On the way we met two patrols with machine guns and my escort had to give what I thought was a password . |
11 | He said that we should travel in pairs — never more than two at a time — so as not to arouse suspicion if we met any Germans or Fascists . |
12 | In the Boar 's Head we met some friends and started talking . |
13 | He went back into Iraq , in the marshes , at great personal danger to himself and translated for me when we met some Shias . |
14 | ‘ It is unnatural , ’ said the Sheikha when we met some months later . |
15 | In the first test , we applied acoustic-phonetic constraints by introducing lexical stress into the representations . |
16 | In the second , we applied lexicon-based constraints by implementing an heuristic which preferred longer words over short ones . |
17 | In those days we would always start the hay-making at Hury , a parcel of land we owned two miles down the road . |
18 | Yet we remain human beings with quivering flesh and throbbing nerves who need the small delights of emotional well-being . |
19 | This observation , that we remain uncritical observers in dreaming , forms an important part of some recent theorizing about dreaming by the psychophysiologist Allan Rechtschaffen , who has described dreams as being " isolated " and even " unimaginative " in the sense that we can not imagine something else during the action of a dream . |
20 | Human society — without which we remain atomistic individuals , isolated and alone . |
21 | Now we pray for those who are not able to enjoy life to the full , through sickness , and we remember Winifred Andrews , Rob Dellar , Jack Bennett and Louis Muggleton … and keep silence as we bring other friends and relatives to your throne . |
22 | We bring these habits to video too — especially when it is treated as a substitute TV . |
23 | When we suffer premenstrual symptoms , such as severe mood swings , our desire for sweet and starchy carbohydrates may surge . |
24 | However , when we advocate such conditions we are assured that they are ‘ not economic ’ . |
25 | At the beginning of Chapter 3 , in Table 3.1 , we divided financial institutions into two groups : those comprising the monetary sector and those which we called non-bank financial intermediaries , now ‘ NBFIs ’ for short . |
26 | or more non-whites , so we divided all areas into those with less or more than 10 per cent . |
27 | When he joined the organization , and later , when the meetings of the high command were actually held in your own house , we made certain inquiries . |
28 | With our increasing clarity of the racism we faced daily , we made tentative overtures to involve ourselves in Black women 's activities . |
29 | We made many friends there , and valued very much the help and inspiration of the beautiful services held every Sunday . |
30 | We made many friends in Lourdes . |