Example sentences of "we [verb] are " 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 | But some of the film-makers we met are not so sure . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | No doubt it would have been so to Descartes , Malebranche , and Locke : they might have agreed with Berkeley that what we perceive are ideas . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | President , I 'd like to er , offer thanks on behalf of my membership in the Process and Construction Section , on the false agreement , it was a very successful week and just to echo Keith 's words , those links that we made are working and we are in correspondence with the , our colleagues in and we 're picking that up in terms of recruitment . |
| 8 | In contrast , the rules of dress or of how we eat are unwritten guides to behaviour . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The judgements we make are surprisingly flexible . |
| 14 | The perceptual distinctions we make are of the very stuff of our existence , and in some way the foundation of all else . |
| 15 | To that extent sir , the submissions which we make are , I anticipate , common with those which will be made by both of the promoting authorities . |
| 16 | Our turn over is Rs 200 to Rs 300 per day , but then the items we sell are also expensive . |
| 17 | The pelargoniums we grow are derived from wild species native to South Africa , and it 's interesting to see some of these plants in Hazel 's collection . |
| 18 | All of the findings we report are based on the assumption that this questionnaire can accurately and reproducibly detect a change in anxiety , even when the same questionnaire is administered twice with just one hour between each assessment . |
| 19 | We have several families who are of gipsy descent , whom we forget are gipsies because they are like the rest of us , but there are still gipsies who do not wish to live in houses . |
| 20 | Queer artists reject the work of assimilationist ‘ gay ’ film-makers such as Norman René , who says of his Aids-epidemic weepie , Longtime Companion : ‘ It was essential that the people we encounter are human and identifiable , so that the film is not about New Yorkers and gays but about people with whom audiences could identify . ’ |
| 21 | For Berkeley , then , what we see and what we touch are different things . |
| 22 | If the safeguards we propose are adopted , we are confident this can work as successfully as it already does in the magistrates ’ and county courts . ’ |
| 23 | It is disingenuous to claim that the conventions we propose are simply ‘ better ’ than the traditional ones ( more accurate , more precise ) , because really it is a question of political and ideological preferences — the traditional usage embodies one view of the world , the feminist alternative a different one , and we need to make clear that both these views are politically non-neutral . |
| 24 | Even in the cases where what we want are things which exist in the ordinary way , these things are not to be identified with the mentioned objects . |
| 25 | The principles that we want are no discrimination , a closer approach to the market , consideration of more environmental matters at the centre of the European Community and a sensible CAP that is designed to support efficient farmers and the proper backing of the rural economy . |
| 26 | ‘ The figures we found are not significantly different to those anywhere else where people are looking for the problem . ’ |
| 27 | Yes , I mean there is some evidence to suggest that senior staff we found are very rarely completely away from the office . |
| 28 | When we get to the ones that we say are awkward alright , we 'll er let you think of erm a way out , okay ? |
| 29 | If we say are providing a band for dancing , we are liable if they let us down . |
| 30 | They 've shown that if you run it at the right speed and stuff it 's one of the most effective methods of doing it and erm the ones we say are the nice little plate compactors which are the best thing , they are useless in comparative performance so |