Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connie said : ‘ It has been a marvellous year for outings and we have been very fortunate with the weather this summer . ’ |
| 2 | They generally , for reasons that we shall come to , gang together into large communal survival machines or ‘ vehicles ’ . |
| 3 | About one hundred million years ago , for reasons that we do not understand , the ammonite dynasty began to dwindle . |
| 4 | For reasons that we shall discuss in Chapter 9 , the members of a colony of social insects co-operate with one another , and they will therefore give signal that are as informative as possible ; they will not usually give deceptive signals to fellow members of their colony . |
| 5 | One possible answer is to say that God chose the initial configuration of the universe for reasons that we can not hope to understand . |
| 6 | I mean , we 're not , erm , we 're just simplifying a very complex situation , and in fact , probably large numbers of genes are , are involved , and they 're , there are probably complex interactions between different sorts of altruism. kin altruism will certainly function within families for reasons that we 've just been looking at , but this will also be a fertile and erm , encouraging er , framework for sibling altruism . |
| 7 | The Touche Ross report had to be completed in a considerable hurry , for reasons that we understand . |
| 8 | Second , these principles should then lead us on a successful search for phenomena that we had not observed previously . |
| 9 | 1992 has been a truly historic year for Napier and we are delighted to share with you , our former students , some of the moments which have seen us metamorphosing into a university . |
| 10 | Now erm I think Michael said he would go for decentralization and we know this is what has already started in our Housing Department . |
| 11 | There are a lot of barriers that exist between people and training some of them could be things like they do n't have access to child care it could be they lack confidence so we go for support and we can offer training which is local we can offer language support . |
| 12 | because I can imagine , looking at rehearsals , what we need are a few sort of easy things to start and end rehearsals with , or for rehearsals when we 're a bit thin on the ground , er |
| 13 | Theyll have to give us the trophy for keeps if we win it again in the next quarter century . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend is right about defence and we have no intention of gambling with this country 's defence . |
| 15 | We do n't require much more energy for cooking than we ever have , because our demand for cooking is essentially determined by how much we can eat . |
| 16 | I knew almost nothing about physics but we shared some jokes about the Rome telephone system . |
| 17 | We get a lot more requests for funding than we can fund , and we have to develop priorities . |
| 18 | We talk about scaleability if we are indeed to entice mainframe style applications towards the open systems platforms then we need to behilosophy as a truly worldwide supplier of accounting software is th software components with a low entry cost . |
| 19 | It is through change that we grow and discover ourselves , that we begin to actualise some of the myriad possibilities of our lives . |
| 20 | It is through literature that we grow into a particular kind of awareness of ourselves and — an inseparable corollary — of our manifold relations with each other and all that is not self , without which there is really not much ‘ self ’ to talk about . |
| 21 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 22 | Liza and I had wanted to go into the big shops in New Street and Corporation Street for ages but we 'd never dared to pass the attendant who stood in the doorway ready to shoo small children off . |
| 23 | We 're going to get jobs , of course , but we may have to keep you waiting for ages before we can settle your account . ’ |
| 24 | upstairs for ages and we |
| 25 | Well we read about prayer and we know about its power but you know we often do n't avail ourselves off it and yet it 's plainly written . |
| 26 | The last time I came through , Irene and I came through Colchester and we were going to Clacton . |
| 27 | The same sort of reasoning about conjugation that we used for edges shows that we can use this process to restore all the corners , though we do disturb the edges . |
| 28 | The reason for setting aside a through the request as researchers where we 're actually going to go through all the procedures , highlighting , the changes are and why . |
| 29 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 30 | ‘ The business in Stillington has done well for instance but we need to rationalise our presence in others , ’ he said . |