Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We rarely challenge our habitual way of doing something . |
| 32 | We rarely reflect on such mysteries . |
| 33 | In the Bible we rarely possess two or more parallel documents where we can see how one writer used another as his source . |
| 34 | In one hospital in an area with a large proportion of Bangladeshis , the Hospital Secretary told me ‘ We rarely need interpreters but we have a list of members of staff who speak various foreign languages ’ — for Bengali there was a porter and a cook — both male . |
| 35 | For stable samples we rarely need to obtain spectra in a hurry , and commercial spectrometers generally operate on timescales ranging from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 36 | Like Peking and Sian , the main streets here are spacious and tree-lined , but we rarely explore the back streets , which you see branching off everywhere , alley-ways where the people live in hovels which would make the slums of European cities appear spacious mansions — but even these alleyways look clean and well-cared for , in spite of their higgledy-piggledy mud- or wood- or brick-walled dwellings . |
| 37 | I used to fish there with some friends several years ago and we rarely caught less than 100lbs in a session . |
| 38 | We rarely see the Old Testament as a whole and little attention is paid to the system of political economy which is set up under divine instruction in the Pentateuch . |
| 39 | We rarely see him and not many people know he is here . ’ |
| 40 | We rarely see each other but since their rotten tree blew down , smashing the fence and my bulbs , it 's been hard not to . |
| 41 | In fact we rarely see each other . ’ |
| 42 | The problem here though and the show is quietly and very deliberately subtitled ‘ Lesbians take photographs ’ is that we rarely see a pairing of two sleek , longhaired and long-legged blondes . |
| 43 | Mr Eliot has lived abroad so long that we rarely think of him as an American and he is never written about from the point of view of his relation to other American authors . |
| 44 | Having grown up surrounded ( almost bombarded ) by spoken language , we rarely think about it . |
| 45 | Consider Billy Brace 's letter ( Letters ) which says of Gaelic : ‘ We rarely lament the loss of those languages now ’ . |
| 46 | We rarely find one who provides answers to all our questions , meets all our expectations and generally measures up to perfection ! |
| 47 | It is worth recalling that even at the height of Britain 's imperial power we rarely tried to go it alone . |
| 48 | At Beechgrove we rarely do any autumn sowing , even with flowering annuals . |
| 49 | And this is one of the things we rarely do . |
| 50 | ‘ We rarely have been in a position where he has had the confidence to go for it , ’ said Gray . |
| 51 | And we rarely have roast beef . ’ |
| 52 | The first preserved is dated 10 June 1953 ; afterwards we rarely dated our letters . |
| 53 | As GRAMOPHONE readers know , CD prices are substantially lower in America than in the UK , and while we rarely complain about this it does raise the number of units which must be sold to reach the break-even point on a particular recording : this in turn discourages risk-taking on limited appeal issues . |
| 54 | No relationship is without conflict yet we rarely talk honestly about the faults of the person who has died . |
| 55 | One of a horse 's most important forms of communication is one we rarely consider . |
| 56 | It is as if Hahnemann takes it for granted that we all understand the importance of quantity , as well as potency , when administering a remedy , but this seems almost a revolutionary concept to us as we rarely consider this factor when using both low and high potency centesimal remedies . |
| 57 | They are people whom we rarely consider in this House , but when there is a suicide or accident on the railway , the driver , and his mate if appropriate , may be mentally scarred for life by the experience . |
| 58 | Even then , we rarely realize that many ailments are directly , or indirectly , brought about by the way in which we think and move . |
| 59 | Our adversary lets us out from time to time , to visit other houses , but we rarely enter with power and authority into the heart of the city . |
| 60 | As it turned out we accidently anticipated Xcelerated Systems trademarking the expression as the name for the technology underlying Liken , its pioneering two-year-old Mac-on-Unix product . |