Example sentences of "[pers pn] is we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ? |
| 2 | If we resent this ( as we should ) , we ought to realize that it is we who are to blame for it . |
| 3 | It is we , after all , who have to pick up the pieces and begin again the struggle to live our lives with dignity , and in freedom from arbitrary and authoritarian policing . |
| 4 | Neither change nor stasis , in any sense we could possibly understand , can have any application to whatever it is we label ‘ God ’ . |
| 5 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 6 | Here it is we who are servants . ’ |
| 7 | First we need a proper idea of what it is we are seeking to explain . |
| 8 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 9 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , this villa has no right to be here , ’ Nigel told them , ‘ but since it is we must save it for future generations to enjoy . ’ |
| 11 | Whatever it is we are doing , we are already doing it , and it seems to make sense . |
| 12 | All the gossip it is we must be hearing , or we 'll just up and away , saints guide us . |
| 13 | Again it is we anthropologists who create ‘ community ’ and talk about ‘ social development ’ but what if we , too , are part of the dominant ideology ? |
| 14 | Though our modern technology and civilization is based largely upon our ability to harness the electron , conventional physics still has no real perception of what it is we have got our hands on . |
| 15 | But whatever it is we decide to do , it must be continued in the long term . |
| 16 | We still do n't know what it is we are up against , do we ? ’ |
| 17 | It is we who do not know , and like Peter we can be too sure of ourselves for our own good . |
| 18 | The shame of it is we have the capacity to provide them with that peace but we 've decided it is n't worth it . ’ |
| 19 | But it is we women who can sport a trim ankle and a shapely calf muscle , whether the hemlines are fashionably raised or fallen , so included here are some exercises for the ankles and calves . |
| 20 | It takes time to understand this need , but I believe that the more we write , the more fully we grasp why it is we want to , have to . |
| 21 | However , for us to improve our ability to control corporate crime , it is first necessary to grasp just what it is we might want to control . |
| 22 | It is we who project upon the continuous flux of history such categories as ‘ Mannerism ’ , and it is evident that not everybody at that period was a Mannerist . |
| 23 | Whatever the heady consequences of that ( and they have classically been found contradictory ) , Sloman 's explication does not tackle the question of why it is we are conscious of certain things at some times but not at others . |
| 24 | Understand what it is we are trying to achieve by cutting off a lot of top growth , and the where , when and how of it lose much of the mystery . |
| 25 | As is so often the case , the source of our difficulties is not what we are discussing but how we are discussing it : it is we , not the Zande , who are at fault . |
| 26 | Whatever it is we should first notice that while the capacity to act autonomously is construed as a psychological capacity , the capacity-to-act-autonomously is not . |
| 27 | It is we , however , who have to work out the connections of similarity and contrast between the expressions in the groups A to L , which thereby become representative of something more general , which could not be expressed by simply adding together the literal senses of the words . |
| 28 | If we , if we decide what it is we want to look at and there is a consensus on that and then you look at it over a period of time and see , and see what 's revealed by it . |
| 29 | There are some people who obviously come at the weekend more to see whatever it is we 're showing . |
| 30 | it is we 're gon na |