Example sentences of "[noun] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now suppose we try to analyse : ( 5 ) I am the mother of Napoleon We can not assess the truth of this sentence without taking into account who the speaker is ; for ( 5 ) is true just in case the person uttering the sentence is indeed identical to the individual who is the mother of Napoleon , and false otherwise . |
| 2 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 3 | ‘ In my borough we have a lot of odd-shaped kitchens . |
| 4 | From Blakethwaite Dams we walked on south past the shooting box belonging to Lord Peel 's estate through a landscape which was now a desert of lead-mine spoil , called on the map by the strangely incongruous name of Merry Field . |
| 5 | At Frinton we played a one-armed bandit for two whole clattering hours and never attained three fruits in a row — but did we mope ? |
| 6 | Were we not concerned with a historical religion we could settle such matters as to who might be the ministers in the religion ( if indeed there were to be any ) on a priori ethical grounds . |
| 7 | BRANCHING OUT : Ivan Bennett of Southport with some of his treasured trees : ‘ Bonsai has become my religion we live off each other ’ Picture : STEPHEN SHAKESHAFT |
| 8 | Whatever self-image we come to accept when we are very young , that is the one we seek to perpetuate by finding others to treat us as we subconsciously believe we deserve . |
| 9 | To work at that speed we ca n't even drink a cup of tea . |
| 10 | Erm distance and speed we have n't done distance and speed erm |
| 11 | Thankfully , there 'd been no traffic coming ; the concept of striking up an intimate — indeed potentially penetrative — relationship with the rocks on the far side of the road had been bad enough ; but even the prospect of a head-on with another lump of metal travelling at anything remotely like the sort of speed we were sustaining might have resulted in me making my mark in the most embarrassing fashion on the leather upholstery of the Bavarian macht-wagen . |
| 12 | We know how long we were travelling and roughly the speed we were going . |
| 13 | The risks we face now 2 |
| 14 | THE RISKS WE FACE NOW |
| 15 | The anti-smoking campaigns in the media in the last few years have made everyone aware of the risks we run if we continue to smoke . |
| 16 | It is time we take an honest look at what we do , how we do it and who we do it with , and learn to minimise the risks we take . |
| 17 | Patients are entitled to receive accurate information about their treatment and the risks we ask them to take ; they also have a right to withhold consent from such treatment if they feel unhappy about accepting these risks . |
| 18 | You know damn well I 've never blamed you for what happened that night ; it was one of those risks we had to take . |
| 19 | As the numbers of socially deprived people , immigrants , and people with AIDS increase , and tuberculosis notifications no longer decline , who can dismiss the risks we may face in Britain in future ? |
| 20 | Our arguments are based not only on our national interest but on the risks we perceive to the competitive position of the Community as a whole . |
| 21 | Whenever any structure seeks to inhibit or censor the arts we have to question their motives . ’ |
| 22 | So coming off the top of the furnace we have a mixture of nitrogen , quite a lot of that , carbon monoxide and a bit of carbon dioxide . |
| 23 | Given those characteristics we should not expect BBC and ITV viewers to be influenced in different ways . |
| 24 | The slow , deliberate verse movement ; the invocation of such abstractions as ‘ fortitude and patient chear ’ ; the careful avoidance of metaphorical expressions ; the weight of moral earnestness ; the balancing of word against word , of phrase against phrase , of the first half against the second half of the poem — in listing these characteristics we move back fifty years . |
| 25 | This tax invoice now assumes many of the characteristics we have come to associate with an internal VAT invoice , for not only will it show the customer 's VAT number , it will also be used by the UK acquirer of goods from within the EC as evidence to recover acquisition tax . |
| 26 | make sense of written material we need to know more than simply the ‘ linguistic ’ characteristic of the text : in addition to these characteristics we need to recognise that any writing system is deeply embedded in attitudinal , cultural , economic and technological constraints … reading and writing are therefore also sociolinguistic activities . |
| 27 | The main buyers and holders of bills , sometimes called the ‘ market makers ’ , are the nine discount houses , members of the London Discount Market Association ( LDMA ) , whose characteristics we described in section 3.3 . |
| 28 | But , after a public meeting , the Muslim community 's spokesman Dr Hanif Mohammed said : ‘ The people now seem to understand the washroom we have built is just used to symbolically wash the bodies . |
| 29 | Shorthand , pitman ty erm my gawd we 've got a door . |
| 30 | The further north we reached the more weird and wonderful floating contraptions we encountered , merchant ships converted to drilling barges , special pipe-laying barges which were mini-townships within themselves with populations of up to 200 crewmen . |