Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one of the creative activities of art is to present a mirror to society , what we generally see is a distorted reflection of ourselves . |
| 2 | What we normally do is get together with the rhythm section for about the first week or so — and it 's just heaven because you 're just a small band . |
| 3 | When we talk of ‘ stress ’ what we usually mean is ‘ over-stress ’ . |
| 4 | Ah okay what we usually do is make sure it 's not upside down . |
| 5 | Well it 's how we , it 's how we usually talk is n't it ? |
| 6 | How long will he go on buying midfield players when what we still need is a centre half ? |
| 7 | The so-called science of narratology tells us that all we ever do is tell stories about ourselves whose truth is no more than their plausibility and consistency with each other . |
| 8 | Seem like all we ever do is talk about schooling other people 's children . |
| 9 | What we also see is a description of this underlying God which can only make sense in personal terms . |
| 10 | What we also have is the British and Irish government , John Major and Gerry Addams all talking seriously about a possible peace initiative . |
| 11 | The review adds : ‘ What we now seek is a DTI which will have an equal , if not superior status , to that of the Treasury . ’ |
| 12 | While force and the means of destruction are primarily physical realities , the path to their deployment in the manner we now fear is through the emotions and decisions of beings who are able to achieve a measure of control over their actions . |
| 13 | So that as well as measuring pressures , we can have flow and volume data on the same patients and the technique that we now use is to bring these patients in er to challenge them with a large fluid load , er they get an antibiotic , which is actually part of the way that we fund this study , they have a |
| 14 | The guy we now know is called Casey stomps out of the phonebox and glares up the road in our direction so hard you could swear he sees us . |
| 15 | Natural selection , the blind , unconscious , automatic process which Darwin discovered , and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life , has no purpose in mind . |
| 16 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 17 | Some of the later remodelling work was done by Francesco Maria Richini , although what we now see is in Romanesque style , even though it post-dates the period by many years . |
| 18 | The editors are aware of the dangers accompanying the recent transformation of AI from ugly duckling to golden-egg-laying goose : ‘ The crisis we now face is a crisis of success , and many wonder if the substance of the field can support the high hopes . ’ |
| 19 | For example , when we say ‘ genes are trying to increase their numbers in future gene pools ’ , what we really mean is ‘ those genes that behave in such a way as to increase their numbers in future gene pools tend to be the genes whose effects we see in the world ’ . |
| 20 | Well , when we say horrifying car crash what we really mean is that one of the two cars got a puncture and the other vehicle bashed into the back of them but you never know , it could have been worse . |
| 21 | When we have a hunch that somebody is telling lies , for instance , ‘ what we really mean is that their body language and their spoken words do not agree . ’ |
| 22 | We assert ‘ the facts are ’ , ‘ the case is ’ and ‘ the truth is ’ when what we really mean is ‘ I interpret the facts to mean ’ , ‘ my opinion is ’ or ‘ I think . ’ |
| 23 | A decision which has never had any legal effect can not be deprived of legal effect , and so when we say that certiorari quashes a decision which the decision-maker had no jurisdiction to make , what we really mean is that the order formally declares that from the moment it was purportedly made ( ‘ ab initio ’ ) the decision had no effect in law . |
| 24 | All we really claim is that such models may be useful in helping managers assess how much the value of the firm might be increased through investment in alternative locations on the portfolio grid . |
| 25 | But what we really get is we feel exposed . |
| 26 | It may be , of course , that what we really want is that some losses so caused should be compensated for if they result from illegal action , and some other losses compensated for regardless of whether they result from illegal action or not . |
| 27 | What we really want is an algorithm which learns improved conditions for a rule . |
| 28 | Well what we really want is more roads . |
| 29 | But what we really need is a sense of ourselves — which the French and Italians simply ooze . ’ |
| 30 | The implication is that what we really need is a properly enforced SSAP 6 approach . |