Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not really matter who we were or where we had come from ; the fountain united us all in a common purpose and that was enough . |
| 2 | We rushed out of the building and started running along the street , hardly knowing where we were or where we were going , until we felt we had put enough distance between us and the reception . |
| 3 | Table 5.6 shows that the proportions still at home were very low for those who had no principal carer , whose carer wanted institutional care , or where we were unable to interview or ascertain the carer 's preferences . |
| 4 | When both parents are dead there is no one to talk with about those uncertain , early memories of people and places , or to confirm when it was we had measles , or where we stayed on holiday . |
| 5 | I had no idea who she was or who I was or where we were . |
| 6 | Or where we are concerned or putting in extra work and so on . |
| 7 | We must assume now that they know about our plan to attack Bremen , but not when or where we will strike . |
| 8 | It was , in fact , the clearing centre at Le Boulou , but nobody had any idea then where we were or where we were going . |
| 9 | As for quality , it 's just for simple cases and in truly complex insolvencies or where we wanted someone to trade the company through , the need to get the person or firm with the right expertise would tend to override any cost concerns . ’ |
| 10 | Similarly , within science & library , we should stick to enquiries where we are the experts or where we have the resources of information and staff time , and refer other enquiries to the relevant specialist agencies . |
| 11 | I have decided not to list my visits and explain where we have been or where we have not been . |
| 12 | It 's a question of whether we adapt to their structure or or we have our own structure |
| 13 | The fact that we call both our mother 's brother and father 's brother by the same term does not mean that we are unaware of the fact that we are related to them in different ways or that we can not express this difference by using such phrases as ‘ my uncle on my mother 's side ’ . |
| 14 | It can not be said , on the other hand , that he goes very deep or that we can ever take the idea of Michael 's art very seriously . |
| 15 | It 's easy for us to be friendly and kind to people that we think highly of or that we want to impress . |
| 16 | Being out of touch is bad news so we need to be constantly on our guard that we do n't assume that we know what our consumers and clients are thinking or that we know what they want . |
| 17 | This is partly because of their ephemeral nature and partly because disclosure would often reveal either that very sensitive subjects were under consideration or that we had something in train about which we were not ready to make an announcement . |
| 18 | We might believe we are helpless in the arms of fate/God/luck , or that we have control of our own destiny . |
| 19 | And does the fact that one in four people in Britain now lives alone mean that we have finally achieved the highest aspirations of humanity , or that we are victims of an ideology of individualism that has distorted even our deepest relationships ? |
| 20 | We do not always realise what is at the root of our original fears , or that we habitually cope with conflict in this way at all . |
| 21 | Women are often brought up to feel that their pleasure is less important than their partner 's or that we do not have the right to ask for what we want . |
| 22 | Because most of us have ignored non-European cultures in the past does not now mean that European and European/American culture have become less valid or that we must be tempted to rewrite history twisting facts to suit our present crisis of confidence . |
| 23 | They hold that we may , with justification , be certain of beliefs which , we admit , risk falsification , or that we may be justified in holding beliefs although there are none of which we are certain . |
| 24 | But when we have got such a satisfactory outcome , unless subsequent events show that we have got it wrong , or that we have wrongly read the environment or some other major change , we would aim to stick with it for some years . |
| 25 | Though it is very disconcerting when we find we ca n't drop off or that we wake early , we must remember that we can not do ourselves any physical harm by having difficulty sleeping . |
| 26 | Thus even if we accept that the duty of directors to act in the best interests of shareholders can be equated with a duty to maximize profits this does not provide us with any real assurance that the wishes of the shareholders are being executed by the directors or that we have a satisfactory way of controlling the discretion accorded to directors in the name of the Rule of Law . |
| 27 | That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses . |
| 28 | That is , it is unclear whether what is being maintained is that our conception of effects is of unnecessitated events or that we should change it to that . |
| 29 | or or that we want to leave some of these out . |
| 30 | And we have that purpose if we know in advance that we are looking for the answers to certain questions , or that we will be asked to carry out certain tasks as a result of viewing . |