Example sentences of "[pron] we [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody we spoke to was prepared to comment . |
| 2 | Such a phrase may feature as part of a quotation , or a paraphrase , as in indirect speech ; or it may be used in respect of an object which we know to be fictional , for example in the context of a story or a fairy tale . |
| 3 | There is no point in library staff researching rose varieties for an enquirer , for example , when we can give them the address of the National Rose Society , which we know to be helpful . |
| 4 | Gaseous or diffuse nebulæ , which we know to be stellar birthplaces , are in general rather disappointing binocular objects , though there are a few exceptions such as M42 , the Sword of Orion ( not to be confused with the Sword-Handle in Perseus ) . |
| 5 | This must follow since we move away from direct taxes which we saw to be progressive , towards indirect taxes , which at best are proportional ( VAT ) , and more usually are regressive ( the community charge — now the new Council Tax , uniform business rate , excise duties , import duties , etc . ) . |
| 6 | There will also be a demonstration arena which we hope to be able to use to show our work through display items and open classes . |
| 7 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 8 | To regard these as distinct interests , each of which sustains a set of values , allows us to reformulate the question of the relative scope of holist and individualist theories which we found to be such a pressing one . |
| 9 | In that time , we were tied to the gold standard , which we found to be inadequate and inflexible , especially as it depended in part on the mining activities in the gold mines of South Africa and the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | He had been reading the notes of Wittgenstein , he said , who before his death had been working on the relation between the private , sensuous experience of colour and the universal language of colour words with which we appear to be able to communicate it . |
| 11 | Oh yes , and the which we propose to be introduced hundred thousand . |
| 12 | Our work will be directed to those matters which in our view materially affect the engagement and will not be directed to the discovery of errors or misstatements which we consider to be immaterial . |
| 13 | Any other arrangement can be based only on the assumed requirements of each sex , an approach which we consider to be incompatible with equal status ’ . |
| 14 | We therefore feel that a Pensions Act is now necessary in order to consolidate existing legislation , clarify the major areas of uncertainty which currently exist in trust law , and to introduce new safeguards which we believe to be necessary . ’ |
| 15 | Whether this was Winston 's idea , or His Majesty 's I do not know , but I so strongly suspect His Majesty who we knew to be one of the best Kings we have ever had . |
| 16 | Young people whom we knew to be honest , stung as we were by the sufferings of our Fatherland , lived convinced that Cuba 's independence was a Yankee gift and that our denunciations of national oppression were simply ways of serving an idea that they considered to be ‘ anti-Cuban ’ ( ‘ Reflexiones ante un aniversario ’ , Hoy , 29 July 1959 , p. 1 , cited in Farber : 1983 , p. 61 ) . |
| 17 | COSI is thought to be part of a much broader technology effort now coming together that will likely involve IBM too in some way , though no-one we spoke to was prepared to elaborate further for fear of upsetting delicate negotiations . |
| 18 | Er and we we want to be able to have a mechanism within our I S O Nine Thousand system , which enables us to tackle different jobs of different , different complexity . |
| 19 | ‘ When we moved the telescope off the galaxy to what we expected to be blank sky , ’ Terzian explained , ‘ we got a signal instead . |
| 20 | Says director Harry Cape : ‘ We will persist in our efforts to get what we know to be right . ’ |
| 21 | We are clearly never obliged to follow any human direction contrary to what we know to be scriptural or morally right . |
| 22 | We must see how this doubt develops and be careful to presuppose only what we know to be true and to commit ourselves consciously to the consequences of these suppositions . |
| 23 | That what we know to be true is no longer true . |
| 24 | What we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work . |
| 25 | His ‘ robust realism ’ results from the fact that he can not attain the standpoint of transcendental reflection from which he can notice what we take to be idealist tendencies in his work . |
| 26 | Do all of what we take to be causal circumstances and causes precede their effects ? |
| 27 | The bombs from the mortar are now exploding in what we believed to be German positions in the wooded area to our front . |
| 28 | What we come to is this . |
| 29 | And they rang up , and they said were sending you a list of what we expect to be available in the way of food at Christmas because we always have the same thing . |
| 30 | It is too easy to become resigned to what we feel to be inevitable . |