Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Age is no longer the benchmark criterion we use for distinguishing people . |
| 2 | Living up to other people 's signalled expectations is often a pleasure/pain experience : pleasure in the recognition we receive for satisfying others ' expectations , pain in the sense that we lose some of our independence and freedom . |
| 3 | It is all about the work we do for each other on these occasions . ’ |
| 4 | We 're taking a hundred and fifty odd thousand out from a budget we have for additional staffing , and we 're also taking |
| 5 | There was great scope we saw for matching marketing , the due diligence product outside er Manchester area er that has been particularly successful we are going to have , well all of you are probably aware of of a significant increase in the in the of due dili due diligence work er very encouraging that er most of it I think I 'm right in saying has come , certainly the bigger ones have come from out with the region er and have been introduced to us from bankers er in London , er initially we 've had er a lot of support from our er colleagues in London who 've effected the introductions in the first place , precisely how the partnership virtually work . |
| 6 | Whether or not the talking will bring about the revolution we need for healthier food , the problems of both world trade and the CAP remain after the breakdown of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) talks . |
| 7 | Most of the evidence we find for full-time craftsmen nevertheless comes from the temples of the Middle and Late Minoan periods , so we should see the main period of craft industries as belonging to an urban society and in particular to the temples within that urban society . |
| 8 | And he refuses to recognise that high interest rates are the price we pay for that deficit . ’ |
| 9 | At the outset we asked for more help from the congregation . |
| 10 | The theory of Darwin and Fisher is the only coherent explanation we possess for such characters . |
| 11 | Every year we look for buried treasure . |
| 12 | But if replication needs complex machinery , since the only way we know for complex machinery ultimately to come into existence is cumulative selection , we have a problem . |
| 13 | Again , throwing by hand , throwing stick or catapult , is only as accurate as our individual capabilities and means that we not only have to throw accurately , but also cast accurately — and we must do this in both instances every time we retrieve for another cast . |
| 14 | Each time we went for another animal all those left howled and fought their chains to get close to us so as not to be left behind . |
| 15 | ‘ It is time we moved for concerted action to liberate the press from these laws . ’ |