Example sentences of "we [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Reid said : ‘ We will also be reviewing our procedures and make sure they are improved before we launch into another election . ’ |
| 2 | I could n't eat , because of the cuts , could n't drink — they were feeding us milk through straws — and my face was beginning to get septicaemia as we lay in this hut with just this little oil- lamp , and the mosquitoes at night would come and sit on the wounds , and I could n't stop thinking about what was going to happen next in my life , and we had no newspapers and I did n't know what was happening and I could n't cry because it pulled the stitches . |
| 3 | One good thing is that we communicate with each other . |
| 4 | They divided the way we communicate with each other into.three categories and called these Parent , Adult and Child . |
| 5 | We communicate with each other in the set through a large number of mostly informal networks . |
| 6 | Within the framework of the Garden 's overall statutory objectives , information policies will help us to decide on resource allocation , improve the way we communicate with each other and with our ‘ users ’ , and provide feedback to Management and the Trustees on the way our resources are being used . |
| 7 | We communicate with each other through a variety of methods — by the staff newsletter ; by Office Notices ( which may be of three types — mandatory , advisory , and informative ) ; by internal memos and notes ; committee minutes , and by word of mouth . |
| 8 | The ways in which we communicate in face-to-face interaction can be summarised like this : |
| 9 | You will appreciate that we remain with little land of non-strategic value on the Council 's account . |
| 10 | We grin at each other . |
| 11 | We grin at each other . |
| 12 | We grin at each other through forkfuls of spaghetti . |
| 13 | ‘ You know that we insist on complete loyalty , ’ Madame Mattli continued . |
| 14 | As in all active sports you pick up bumps and bruises , so we insist on medical insurance . |
| 15 | But you do collect bumps and bruises falling off windsurfers , so we insist on medical insurance . |
| 16 | It ignores the obvious discriminations which we make between similar treatment of different species within the animal kingdom . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman has not grasped the fact that any progress that we make on improving animal welfare in Europe has to be on a Europeanwide basis . |
| 18 | The money we make in this shop goes to erm Save The Children Fund which supports children in countries abroad , particularly in Africa where you 've probably seen pictures on television . |
| 19 | Some of the costs are met by head office — it gets all of the revenue because we sell in this country — but in the case of France where we have a separate legal entity , what we 're after is contribution statements by unit of accommodation for the UK revenues , and one or two other costs with those French locally incurred expenses . |
| 20 | However , even when we concentrate on fixed investment in manufacturing , no single theory ‘ explains ’ much of the variation in investment . |
| 21 | When we concentrate on one disaster , one famine , are others going on that we should be covering . |
| 22 | Chair , we do class as unsatisfactory those samples that the laboratory would covers do n't reach certain standards , whatever the standard may be , and that 's why we concentrate on that figure that the bathing unsatisfactory at one particular pool , where there was a serious problem . |
| 23 | The model is easiest to analyse where ( i.e. , the firm ignores the indirect effect ) and we concentrate on this case . |
| 24 | ‘ The initial investment is very small but we profit from that sale and do n't have to charge any more . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've both realised what we mean to each other . |
| 26 | Of course , as the Oxford philosophers always say , it all depends upon what we mean by political union . |
| 27 | It forces us to consider what we mean by higher education and , indeed , I shall argue that research is not an essential part of the process of higher education as such . |
| 28 | We could do worse than try to reach some understanding in the lesbian and gay communities of what we mean by this question . |
| 29 | Before turning to these — set out in two stages ( see below , pp. 93 – 106 ) — we need to be clear what we mean by reflective thinking , and that pupils can do it . |
| 30 | This is another way of saying that we need some good way of defining exactly what we mean by true braininess . |