Example sentences of "[be] [conj] we [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a secretarial assistant does not wish to accept the invitation with its terms , we would not press the matter but the policy should be that we appoint no more off-the-payroll secretarial assistants and that the whole arrangement ends by April 1993 . |
| 2 | But may be that we had a description , want to get the description out to as many people as possible , to see if anybody recognizes the person described , er then we 'd come to you there , give you the description of the |
| 3 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 4 | In a letter to his congregation he said : ‘ It may be that we have no influence on those who plan and carry out murders in both parts of our community , but we can all help create a climate of opinion where they will be increasingly isolated and disowned . ’ |
| 5 | The problem will be that we have no great tacklers in the midfield without Batts . |
| 6 | If I had any criticism of our organisation it would be that we have a tendency to hide our light under a bushel . |
| 7 | ‘ And how would it be if we offered a slight reduction for buying the two tickets together ? |
| 8 | An important question in our interpretation of the moral structure of the tale must , however , be whether we regard the " swyving " of the two women as the visitation of some form of punishment upon them . |
| 9 | It does n't though , and the photocopiers are good enough to pass official muster , how long can it be before we have the sort of crisis of confidence in our physical currency not seen since the days of the coin-clipping Tudors ? |
| 10 | ‘ Apart from the storm , we do n't know what the road is like , how bad it will be when we reach the pass . ’ |
| 11 | Not only do a greater proportion of phone boxes work , but there are more boxes today than there were before we introduced the privatised control system . |
| 12 | so that 's how close we were when we had the blow out thing . |
| 13 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 14 | If we go to an exhibition together we find that we like the same paintings ; so I think it 's that we have an empathy in our way of painting , in the whole attitude to painting . |
| 15 | Legal aid is not available in any form for industrial tribunal hearings erm so what I usually say is that we assist the client up to the stage where s it means going er to the tribunal itself . |
| 16 | This objection helps to reveal why it is that we regard a hierarchical classification as natural . |
| 17 | A good answer is that we regard the causal circumstance as leaving no room for any other eventuality than the effect . |
| 18 | ‘ The worst thing is that we get no information about what is going on ’ , he says . |
| 19 | It its a big task , em er the thing is that I think that that the first point of call is one is that we get the questionnaire out and see whether you know the one where can we can the questionnaires to all the neighbourhood watch is it , w w we prepare the questionnaire and we get on and send it out , right . |
| 20 | So what I propose is that we put the notion of happiness back in its box and restrict ourselves to the word ‘ happy ’ , which people do in fact use in everyday circumstances . |
| 21 | A limitation of this study is that we had no information on the type of hysterectomy — abdominal or vaginal . |
| 22 | Well what they mean when they say a half of a quarter is that we had a a quarter and we 've shared it out between the two of it so we 've got half to that each . |
| 23 | I know you 're not Steve but all I 'm saying is that we had a discussion about this earlier in the week . |
| 24 | I 'm afraid the fact is that we had the finest guitarist in the world and we did n't recognise it . |
| 25 | The feeling is that we had the idea , which was the crucial element , and anybody could manufacture the product , but that is not true . |
| 26 | ‘ We are quite profitable today , but the key point we try to make is that we take a very long-term view of our business . |
| 27 | on this , and I 'll reiterate this , is the process that we go through as I understand it for introducing procedures , is that we take a diagonal slice through the organization er in other words there 's a draft procedure produced . |
| 28 | With children , the presupposition is that we take the responsibility until they show us that they want it ; with adults we assume that they take the responsibility unless they show us that they do n't . |
| 29 | The key is that we take the issue seriously . |
| 30 | What we were n't trying to say is that we make no contribution to the greenhouse effect … [ but ] to say that making Andrex from virgin fibre instead of waste causes less carbon dioxide to be released to the atmosphere . ’ |