Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] we [am/are] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Neither of us , sister , got where we are today by toeing the line . ’ |
| 2 | It is extraordinary that even though the Government found an extra £40 million for sport in the last Budget , which is near enough double the expenditure on sport year on year , Opposition Members criticise us and suggest that we are not providing the necessary resources for sport . |
| 3 | Phrases such as ‘ out of date ’ and ‘ old fashioned ’ suggest that we are always moving on to better things . |
| 4 | I hope , however , that you will not think me Panglossian when I suggest that we are now not far from that point . |
| 5 | There are new analyses — German and American — which suggest that we are now leaving such a world , not entering it : that the cold war , falsely represented as a balance of terror between two superpowers , was in reality the period of almost challenged American global dominations . |
| 6 | ‘ But we must try and see them — if only to let them know that we 're here , in the States , and that they have no need to worry about Emma and Sophie . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If you had n't been asleep all this time , you 'd know that we are nearly there . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Christ , do they know that we are here and decided to blast us out ? ’ |
| 9 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 10 | ‘ How are you ? ’ — ‘ I 'm fine ’ , and talk about the weather are designed to make another individual feel comfortable , to let them know that we are positively disposed towards them when we can not think of anything more significant to say . |
| 11 | Mr. Grist : The Hon. Gentleman should know that we are still awaiting the proposals of the Mid-Glamorgan health authority for the funding of that new hospital . |
| 12 | Let us know that we are really alive and the only way we can do this is to live with ever growing joy and enthusiasm . |
| 13 | As we examine the dominant beliefs of the two alliances , it must be stressed that we are not looking at beliefs possessed by each and every person who identifies to a greater or lesser extent with either set of traditions . |
| 14 | It was constantly stressed that we are now only qualified to dive in the conditions in which we learnt , that we should always go out with people of greater experience , and that with recreational diving ( which PADI stress this diving is ) , you never go deeper than 30 metres unless you have a specific reason , i.e. a wreck . |
| 15 | When the movie comes out I want people to know that we 're still around , that the P-Funk lives and that we can act and can still drop it . |
| 16 | ‘ The Lions were obviously disappointed about losing that first Test 20–18 , but we now realise that we are pretty close to the All Blacks . |
| 17 | Finally , we realise that we are only at the beginning of what may prove to be one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century . |
| 18 | That is always the knee-jerk reaction of Opposition Members , who say that we are not spending enough money , without saying precisely how they would improve situations such as this . |
| 19 | Furthermore , despite a recent recovery , the fact that the value of our investments fell very sharply in the calendar year illustrates that we are certainly not insulated from our country 's economic problems ; this must never be overlooked in planning for the future . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ This survey also highlights that we are certainly going in the right direction . ’ |
| 21 | He now accepts that we are not privatising HMI . |
| 22 | But it does give to some people that that will demonstrate that we 're always looking for people |
| 23 | Given his scepticism about our ability to penetrate to the real essences of things , it is not surprising that he finds that none of the much-discussed contemporary theories on offer provide a satisfactory answer , and concludes that we are simply ignorant about this . |
| 24 | Experience has told us that rural people often perceive their own problems differently from the accepted establishment viewpoint , and it is the development of the perception , whether we consider the opinions right or wrong , which we must cultivate if we are seriously looking for long-term solutions . |
| 25 | ‘ People have been approached and we are just waiting to hear now when the contracts are signed and sealed , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 26 | ‘ Looks like we 're not the only people to work out this Mallory thing . ’ |
| 27 | Yeah erm oh well looks like we 're nearly drifting towards the end , again as I , as I say I 'm , I 'm , I 'm fairly , pretty happy with the questions erm you know er going back to what I was saying earlier I was just thinking that some of them might be more f easily phrased as non directional statements and you have the , you know , kind of have the words in the scales yeah right , good , so yeah |
| 28 | So that 's all we we do and and interfering cos we 're not . |
| 29 | We should wait until we are quite certain that all is well . |
| 30 | Sometimes , like last night , if we are landing in a field location we will be able to home-in on radio transmissions from a ground station and fly until we are overhead . |