Example sentences of "we who [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is we who project upon the continuous flux of history such categories as ‘ Mannerism ’ , and it is evident that not everybody at that period was a Mannerist . |
| 2 | Yet we who teach in primary schools need continually to remember that it is with children that we work . |
| 3 | We who stand on the touchline are glad that you are happy . |
| 4 | ‘ We who work in the provinces rarely have the opportunity to encounter detectives of such distinction ! ’ |
| 5 | As he said of it much later , ‘ We who belong to the city have never left the Church . |
| 6 | You know more than we who live in this backwater on the Marches . |
| 7 | This is not the politics of jealousy from those of us who worry about such matters . |
| 8 | For those of us who fret about ways in which modern technology distances us from understanding this programme was a revelation . |
| 9 | Ministers should take on board this message from those of us who speak for people with whom we come into contact in our day-to-day work : something must be done about victimisation , and it must be done quickly . |
| 10 | This may be smugly satisfying to those of us who sit on the sidelines , but even ardent moralists must soon start to wonder whether the Boesky boom in show trials has overplayed itself . |
| 11 | They give time and money to their faith and such giving often shames those of us who claim to be orthodox believers . |
| 12 | Still , there is plenty to justify Scrooge s charge of humbug in our present day Christmas practice , and I sometimes wonder if it is us who need to be frightened out of our effervescent joy . |
| 13 | Ultimately the universe in its totality is in some sense perfect , as also are its elements understood as required by the overall nature of that totality , but from the point of view of us who struggle within it things are called good or bad ( or by some such words ) according as to whether they promote our particular struggle to actualise our own nature . |
| 14 | For those of us who live with a friendly cat it is hard to understand people who suffer from a terror of encountering felines at close quarters . |
| 15 | Your review of Raymond Bonner 's ‘ At the Hand of Man ’ ( April 24th ) is a ray of hope for those of us who live with dangerous wild animals . |
| 16 | When , in Frankfurt in October , the talks were foundering , North called it ‘ a great tragedy for those of us who live on this Planet Earth ’ ; nothing less than the misalignment of two spheres that had been about to dance in harmonious orbit . |
| 17 | Once the veneer of hunt balls and dressing up for the occasion is stripped away all you have left is a very cruel activity which is a disgrace to those of us who live in the modern world . |
| 18 | A strange fact about those of us who live in the West is that we always seem to want more than we have . |
| 19 | Those of us who live in south-east London not three miles from King 's Cross know that if we were taking our children to meet a continental train , or if we were taking elderly parents or grandparents to meet the train , we would not take them to King 's Cross , because we could not park there or get them near the platforms . |
| 20 | I hope that you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , will consider it in order if I state precisely what that £1 billion could mean to those or us who live in the Network SouthEast region . |
| 21 | Those of us who live in north-east Kent have always believed that there should be a fast link , and we have been perfectly happy for it to go through south London , to where our constituents who will benefit from the link wish to travel . |
| 22 | Andrew also differs : ‘ Those of us who play outside the North are just as much northerners . ’ |
| 23 | But those of us who deal with bureaucratic institutions simply as part of normal life , while we may find it frustrating , even demeaning , can at least retreat into the private institutions of our family where , if we are lucky , we will find acceptance , support and warmth . |
| 24 | And I 'm proud to say , whether it 's to keep our nation strong , extend the freedom of thought through telecommunications , or expand the industrial horizons , all of us who work at Hughes will continue to expand our vision — to meet tomorrow 's need today . |
| 25 | For those of us who work at the power stations , the idea of going on a guided tour may seem daft . |
| 26 | Those of us who work with refugees recognise how stretched are the resources of the United Nations , particularly those for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , and those who have responsibility for coping with the enormous problems about which the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) has just spoken . |
| 27 | I poured 70 per cent of it into a glass representing the wages paid to those of us who work in the business , 20 per cent into a glass representing what was ploughed back by way of reinvestment in plant and machinery , 5 per cent into a glass representing dividends and 5 per cent into a glass representing tax . |
| 28 | They will be a very few words because the prospectus has an increasingly difficult job of compressing into its allocated space all that has to be said about a University that gets bigger every year and that those of us who work in it are biased enough to think gets better every year . |
| 29 | In the last twenty years , those of us who work in these services have seen revolutionary changes which have been brought about by the use of state-of-the-art scientific technological developments . |
| 30 | For many of us who work in urban schools , multicultural education has felt like the correct response to our growing awareness of the multiracial nature of our schools . |