Example sentences of "[pron] it is we " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And still I have no idea who it is we discuss . ’ |
| 2 | the identity of the client : defining the client relationship and the involvement of other parties ; we must clearly establish whom it is we are advising and who is to meet our fees . |
| 3 | Excuses not to do the work we think we might or should do , excuses not to be kind or considerate or whatever it is we feel we should be ? |
| 4 | Neither change nor stasis , in any sense we could possibly understand , can have any application to whatever it is we label ‘ God ’ . |
| 5 | Whatever it is we are doing , we are already doing it , and it seems to make sense . |
| 6 | But whatever it is we decide to do , it must be continued in the long term . |
| 7 | Whatever it is we should first notice that while the capacity to act autonomously is construed as a psychological capacity , the capacity-to-act-autonomously is not . |
| 8 | There are some people who obviously come at the weekend more to see whatever it is we 're showing . |
| 9 | But having done it , having completed the half a day or whatever it is we have , you know it 's not really a case of saying Right well that 's it . |
| 10 | First we need a proper idea of what it is we are seeking to explain . |
| 11 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 12 | During a meeting yesterday , Mrs Aquino told her cabinet ‘ to take a long , hard look at ourselves in order to see what it is we did wrong and what else needs to be done so we can all benefit from this tragic experience in our lives ’ . |
| 13 | Though our modern technology and civilization is based largely upon our ability to harness the electron , conventional physics still has no real perception of what it is we have got our hands on . |
| 14 | We still do n't know what it is we are up against , do we ? ’ |
| 15 | However , for us to improve our ability to control corporate crime , it is first necessary to grasp just what it is we might want to control . |
| 16 | Understand what it is we are trying to achieve by cutting off a lot of top growth , and the where , when and how of it lose much of the mystery . |
| 17 | If we , if we decide what it is we want to look at and there is a consensus on that and then you look at it over a period of time and see , and see what 's revealed by it . |
| 18 | get dead clear about what it is we 're go actually gon na vote on |
| 19 | Otto said that we all gravitate towards what it is we want . |
| 20 | We do not have to specify what it is we want to any analyst who in turn specifies it to a programmer who then writes a program . |
| 21 | I apologise for the length of this letter but I do believe that it is essential that you have a clear understanding of what it is we are to do . |
| 22 | Well erm I 'll tell you what it is we , we actually build our business by word of mouth and it er these sort of introductions means that we rarely advertise erm and the money saved can be used to benefit policy holders such as yourself which sometimes means that it can reduce charges and erm increase bonuses wherever possible . |
| 23 | Erm what it is we 're a press agency working for the national papers and about eighteen months ago we did Em Emma 's story for the Sunday People erm and now I 've just seen the Evening Mail today erm and I 've got , you know the how she 's grown nine inches in the past eighteen months , er and just thought the story might er might take another outing and I just wondered if it was possible f for you to help us contact her er her mother at all ? |
| 24 | Well I think that rather depends on saying fairly concisely what it is we mean by science . |
| 25 | So we want to get bright objects that we can see at great distances , but we also need to know something about what it is we 're looking at . |
| 26 | Well I think that rather depends on saying fairly concisely what it is we mean by science . |
| 27 | One has to try and explain what it is we are about and why we 're doing it and , if necessary , perhaps point out a few distinctions that may exist , for instance , between the professional and the amateur scene , not that I like using those words because I think they 're fraught with all sort of potential misunderstandings . |