Example sentences of "we [am/are] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not chiropodists , we do n't actually cut away the hard skin because that i is a chiropodist 's job , but we certainly do have a good try at trying to get rid of as much hard skin as we can . |
| 2 | For the past 150 years our politicians have been droning on about the need to train the British worker to the level of the German , oblivious to the somewhat obvious fact that we are not Germans so can not be expected to behave like them . |
| 3 | ‘ We are not absolutists . |
| 4 | And that led to a day of fury and counter-claims by the Pakistan team bosses who insisted : ‘ We are not cheats and we intend spending our last rupee proving so . ’ |
| 5 | We are not subject at this juncture , to identify any further exposures , but that , I mean , that 's what we 're saying is n't it ? |
| 6 | We are not cranks or nutters . |
| 7 | We are not horses . ’ |
| 8 | We ai n't going to have an organised workload , we are not computer operators , what we are is salesmen . |
| 9 | ‘ We are not fools in France , Rober' . |
| 10 | Some said they were glad to be out of the fighting : ‘ We are not prisoners , we are guests , ’ in the words of one . |
| 11 | A Brewers Society spokesman said : ‘ Like any industry we are not recession proof . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nozick might claim that his conditional theory also proves the same point , that we do n't know we are not brains in vats . |
| 14 | But if we had no independent reason for accepting this conclusion , such as the argument from error provides , we would take it as a point against his theory that it shows we do n't know the most central and obvious things such as that we are not brains in vats , that there is a material world or that the world began more than five minutes ago . |
| 15 | Without that proof , we would hold it against the conditional theory that it can not even show that we know that we are not brains in a vat . |
| 16 | And I do not know of any other argument , not relying on PC k , which Nozick could use to show that we do not know we are not brains in a vat without showing that we do not know most other things either . |
| 17 | Stroud ( 1984 , ch. 2 ) considers a similar argument against the sceptic 's attempt to generalize from the fact that we do not know we are not brains in a vat . |
| 18 | ‘ We are not king makers but conciliators , ’ said Bill Packer , a Texas oil millionaire , whose discrete presence has been felt in many Amnerican campaigns . |
| 19 | We do n't climb Munros because we are not climbers . |
| 20 | ‘ We are not friends . |
| 21 | But if we are free citizens ’ — he paused on the word , feeling it alien but unable to think of another — ‘ if we are not slaves , we must have liberty to say ‘ No , we have no dispute with France — we have business here at home which matters more than anything else on earth — we will not learn to play with swords , or blow out brains with bullets . ’ |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that a tax-raising Scottish assembly would be the worst thing for Scotland because it would discourage the inward investment which will be encouraged into the United Kingdom by the fact that we are not part of the social charter ? |
| 23 | We are not members of the Vintners ’ Guild . |
| 24 | We are not Americans , even though I do hate the way we sometimes run around them like the little brother . |
| 25 | If we are not cost effective we go out of business . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We are not explosives experts , sir , ’ Talbot said . |
| 27 | We are not isolationist , but we question whether incipient integration is actually the way forward . |
| 28 | ‘ We are Soviets here , we are not foreigners . ’ |
| 29 | To put it another way , we are not foreigners in our own language , we are at home in it . |
| 30 | I want to connect this up with something I said earlier : ‘ We are not foreigners in our own language ; we are at home in it . ’ |