Example sentences of "we [vb base] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the tyres we change are worn to the legal limit . |
| 2 | Unless we can think about truth and reference from the standpoint of transcendental reflection — unless we have substantive conceptions of those notions — the questions we raise are not intelligible . |
| 3 | The pursuit of truth , the effort to comprehend , arrange , interpret some aspect or other of the universe we perceive is an activity of humanity which justifies , rewards and motivates itself . |
| 4 | Anything we perceive is , by definition , something which operates through one of our sense organs . |
| 5 | If the surrounding web of reality which we perceive is partly true and partly false , then in order to get closer to the truth some things need to be doubted so that others can properly be believed . |
| 6 | Moreover , what we perceive far exceeds what actually interacts with our nervous system ; for what interacts with our nervous systems is occurrent energy and what we perceive are continuant objects ( see earlier , p. 98 ) . |
| 7 | No doubt it would have been so to Descartes , Malebranche , and Locke : they might have agreed with Berkeley that what we perceive are ideas . |
| 8 | I think Americans and Russians find it strange that we are 100% funded by government and over 50% of the cases we bring are against government departments . |
| 9 | I do n't want to start haunting Chambers ’ doorstep , yet I want to be absolutely sure that the moment we pick is the right one . ’ |
| 10 | What we lack is enough money . |
| 11 | I think the one type of penalty we lack is something between full custody and non-custody . |
| 12 | There is growing awareness that the type of food we eat is crucial to our health . |
| 13 | The advent of commercial and domestic freezing equipment means that what we eat is no longer limited by the time of year — although whether you consider the flavour of food which has been deep frozen for any length of time to be as good is another matter . |
| 14 | The food we eat is broken down by means of a series of enzymes in the mouth , stomach and small intestine to its simple component molecules which can then be absorbed into the bloodstream . |
| 15 | The diet that we eat is influenced by a variety of different factors , both consciously and subconsciously . |
| 16 | Just as we are all different in our body weight and metabolism , so the type of diet we eat is influenced by factors which differ from person to person . |
| 17 | The remaining two-thirds of the sucrose we eat is in " hidden " form , as in chocolate , confectionery , biscuits , cakes , soft drinks , and ice-cream . |
| 18 | Much of the factory food we eat is so tasteless that in desperation people reach for the brown sauce , tomato ketchup or pickles to perk it up . |
| 19 | In contrast , the rules of dress or of how we eat are unwritten guides to behaviour . |
| 20 | What is more , many naturally-occurring chemicals are highly toxic : the natural foods we eat are stiff with potentially damaging chemicals — plants , in particular , spike their products with an armoury of defensive substances ( see p 15 ) , fungi on the plants contribute their own toxins , and the bacteria in our gut add to the number we absorb . |
| 21 | Unless we are confident that the meat we eat was produced without suffering , the equality principle ‘ implies that it was wrong to sacrifice important interests of the animal in order to satisfy less important interests of our own ’ ( 1979 : 57 ) . |
| 22 | The words we use come to us already imprinted with meanings , intentions and accents of others , and any utterance we make is directed towards some real or hypothetical Other . ’ |
| 23 | One of the mistakes we make is to imagine that if something is harmless or beneficial to us it must automatically be so to cats . |
| 24 | EVERYTHING WE MAKE IS DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND THE STRESS AND STRAIN OF REAL PHYSICAL EXERTION . |
| 25 | Every flight we make is international , with flight attendants from 10 Asian lands . |
| 26 | The words we use come to us already imprinted with the meanings , intentions and accents of others , our speech is a tissue of citations and echoes and allusions ; and every utterance we make is directed towards some real or hypothetical Other who will receive it . |
| 27 | In a society dominated by consumerism , every buying choice we make is a political act — by choosing to buy environmentally-friendly cleaning fluids and powders , avoiding aerosols and using lead-free petrol , we are not only minimizing our own impact on the environment but also registering a protest . |
| 28 | The shapes of the things we make are , as a general rule , imposed upon them from the outside : we do not make ‘ embryo ’ machines which acquire complex shapes by intrinsic processes . |
| 29 | The images that we make are not themselves beautiful , they are only the cages in which we trap the living birds and butterflies of beauty . |
| 30 | The checks that we make are quick but thorough as we take our responsibilities seriously-no one wants to add to an existing debt problem . |