Example sentences of "[Wh det] we [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a different tone at the end of this paper , where Freud writes that our attitude to primitives is like that we ought to take towards children , ‘ … which we adults no longer understand and whose fullness and delicacy of feeling we have in consequence so greatly underestimated ’ . |
| 2 | I gather that in general ditches are the responsibility of Southern Water and then in some point it 'll change in but er there are areas in the county er and upon this appears to be one where the ditches adjacent to the highway are the responsibility of the , the Highway Authority , that is the County Surveyor , but it gives you an example of an area in which we responsibility of the public er find it difficult |
| 3 | Because he does not know other countries ' systems or customs , he has a certain narrowness of thinking , which we Europeans do not have , of course . |
| 4 | Every year after the three-hours service on Good Friday , in which we choir boys were divided into three groups to lead the singing of the hymns , each group for an hour , a number of villagers went off to look for primroses in the hedgerows and woods . |
| 5 | What should that placid little people know of the rattle and rush of an express train , typical as it is of the nerve-wasting haste with which we Westerners live our lives ? |
| 6 | The world of multiple scents , like that of three-dimensional sonar is not one into which we humans can readily project our minds . |
| 7 | There are situations for which we humans are responsible , either by neglect or corporate selfishness . |
| 8 | The concepts which we humans are aware of are certainly much more subtle ; but let that pass . |
| 9 | From their balconies , the Christian Lebanese threw rose water and rice at the Syrians , a phenomenon which we journalists archly described as ‘ a traditional Arab greeting ’ . |
| 10 | The hour to which we journalists strictly ration ourselves at lunchtime had already passed and the mart reports would n't sub themselves , but a selection of citric sorbets proved worth the extra 45p . |
| 11 | I wish to correct a wrong impression that has gained some credence amongst the ignorant and unreasoning public , that sign language — the agency through which we inter.exchange thought and opinion — is calculated to do injury to the intelligence of the deaf and dumb . |
| 12 | So I turned from what we pros call ‘ the back of the book ’ to the front to see what else I could learn . |
| 13 | She has what we doctors call … stress . |
| 14 | So what we doctors gave you , you developed this lifestyle . |
| 15 | A and we tended to not bother going back to the client , but giving what we thought he needed , that was the culture of the regional civil engineer , |
| 16 | He was a real demanding guy , as everybody knows , but what we caddies liked about him was his determination . |
| 17 | At least since the early 1960s , the British countryside , from the Isle of Wight to the Scottish Highlands , has been host to what we Forteans call ABCs ( Alien Big Cats ) . |
| 18 | I know that he has shared my experience many times of being involved in what we lawyers call ’ cut-throat ’ trials . |
| 19 | The effect achieves what we players call reverse swing . |
| 20 | Their vision , of course , is well designed for use in what we humans call the ‘ dark ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ What we Willis Brothers try to do , ’ Milton said , ‘ is take the magic out of shaping and apply number to art . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd like what we Scots call a wee dram ? ’ |
| 23 | You know what we nomes are like . |
| 24 | Round the corner to our right was what we journalists liked to refer to as ‘ No-Man's-Land ’ , into which no man had ventured for more than a year . |
| 25 | And on that side , what we fireplace it used to be what we used to call a boiler , you used to fill it with water and it used to the fire used to heat it for you to take it we used to call what we used to call ladle it out into a a bowl to wash your pots with or wash your floor with or anything with . |
| 26 | Well , it 's bound to be some body , but , I mean , what we movement , could erm , |