Example sentences of "that we in " in BNC.

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1 Both the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister have made clear that we in Britain reject the idea of a federal superstate .
2 So I thought it was nice that we in the Women 's Guild declared Women 's Lib this year and held our own .
3 I like to think that we in the Met Office did our little bit towards keeping up the boys ' spirits .
4 The first point to note is that we in the UK import more walnuts ( and Brazils ) in the shell than out .
5 The point is not that we in any way deliberately do down the intelligence of animals — although we do this as well — but that it is hard for us to imagine the workings of forms of intelligence that have evolved to cope with environmental circumstances different from our own .
6 THE horrible story of Clare Bastow , the Angel of Death who killed helpless Cathy O'Neill , is the final proof that we in Britain do n't care about our old people .
7 ‘ Oh , St. David , you know that we in Wales are very proud of our rugby .
8 ‘ Why , then , Sir , is it His will that we in our hive are beset by so many enemies within ?
9 If used frequently , or if used in conjunction with the soliloquy , this mode of direct presentation brings us into closer contact with that person , so that we in part share his or her hopes and fears , become more closely involved with their desire to control the world .
10 Nor is it the case that we in fact need a vehicle , a mythological story to carry our awareness of God , of the kind which has been fabricated in the west .
11 The sun , the clear sky , the bright colours , the prosperous look of this lively , airy university town and wine-growing capital ; the stalls massed with flowers ; fresh fish shining pink and gold and silver in shallow baskets ; cherries and apricots and peaches on the fruit barrows ; one stall piled with about a ton of little bunches of soup or pot-au-feu vegetables — a couple of slim leeks , a carrot or two , a long thin turnip , celery leaves , and parsley , all cleaned and neatly bound with a rush , ready for the pot ; another charcuterie stall , in the covered part of the market , displaying yards of fresh sausage festooned around a pyramid-shaped wire stand ; a fishwife crying pussy 's parcels of fish wrapped tidily in newspaper ; an old woman at the market entrance selling winkles from a little cart shaped like a pram ; a fastidiously dressed old gentleman choosing tomatoes and leaf artichokes , one by one , as if he were picking a bouquet of flowers , and taking them to the scales to be weighed ( how extraordinary that we in England put up so docilely with not being permitted by greengrocers or even barrow boys to touch or smell the produce we are buying ) ; a lorry with an old upright piano in the back threading round and round the market place trying to get out .
12 That ordinary belief in turn gives some support , to say no more , to theories of determinism pertaining to our choices and actions : theories whose burden is that we in our lives are a matter of such connections .
13 ‘ Of course , you will know that we in Iran have hostages , too .
14 And remember , too , the lessons in scientific death that we in the West have given throughout this bloody century .
15 It was in the spring of 1944 that we in Fontanellato began to feel what war was all about .
16 It must also not be forgotten that we in Britain , at least , tend to get our latitudes wrong when looking across the Atlantic .
17 ‘ I have to say that we in The Office put the highest , the very highest priority on acquiring this proof — if it still exists . ’
18 Let's continue this in 1992 so that we in Rentokil Tropical Plants can proudly claim that we are :
19 The magazine served to reinforce my own feelings that we in the UK must fight to preserve lesbian and gay rights which were so hard won and which Mrs Thatcher seems determined to destroy .
20 Is the Minister satisfied that not a single case was substantiated by the independent Police Complaints Commission , or does he share the scepticism of Lord Colville and others , who feel that nought out of 726 does not reflect the world that we in Northern Ireland inhabit ?
21 I should like it to be understood that we in Northern Ireland do not expect our tourism promotion to be taken over by Bord Failte .
22 The ban on straw burning will come into effect in 1993 , so does my hon. Friend agree that we in East Anglia have a ready market for such initiatives ?
23 Will my right hon. Friend confirm that we in Britain import more agricultural produce from France than we export to France ?
24 We must both find a way through this , and I demand that we in this country support the Commission in its negotiations , demanding that the United States come further towards us , so that together we can find a solution for the whole world , instead of throwing batons at each other across the Atlantic .
25 I believe that we in Scotland would like to have a similar facility .
26 The second point is that we have been told that we in Wales would return to the rates .
27 Employment is a two-way trade and it is as well to remember that the conditions that we in the House think can be imposed on employers may backfire on the very people whom they are supposed to help .
28 Will my right hon. Friend confirm that we in Britain will retain complete freedom to run our own monetary and economic policy , that we have transferred no significant powers from Westminster to the European Parliament , and that , in securing the deletion of the word ’ federal ’ , he has secured the deletion of the whole federal agenda ?
29 Even though the Prime Minister has not incorporated the provision into the agreement at Maastricht , does he not agree that it is high time that we in this country also took those steps for ourselves ?
30 That will mean an enormous shift in the centre of gravity in Europe towards the north — something that we in Britain should heartily welcome , because on many issues , our approach , or at least , that of Labour Members , has much in common with the countries of northern Europe .
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