Example sentences of "[noun pl] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The risks we face now 2 |
| 3 | THE RISKS WE FACE NOW |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You know damn well I 've never blamed you for what happened that night ; it was one of those risks we had to take . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Whenever any structure seeks to inhibit or censor the arts we have to question their motives . ’ |
| 11 | Given those characteristics we should not expect BBC and ITV viewers to be influenced in different ways . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | According to the itinerary Wednesday was a rest day but after a half-hearted attempt at browsing around the Keswick shops we decided that the call of the fells was too strong to resist and headed for the Langdales . |
| 18 | When we go down to the shops we may see an acquaintance on the other side of the road . |
| 19 | I mean I ca n't even know what shops we want . |
| 20 | And I think the way we did it we marked down the three shops we wanted to do and make sure you do those three shops . |
| 21 | look at this traffic coming in now I think the way we did it , we marked down the three shops we wanted to do |
| 22 | I 've got ta liaise with the information centre in the computer centre tomorrow see if there 's any guidelines we could probably use . |
| 23 | They are more explicit than , but have the same implication as , the more general guidelines we made . |
| 24 | In pleading , however , for home-grown evangelists we are not excluding the role of the itinerant evangelist . |
| 25 | We then instead of adding those particular outputs we do n't we we sum them . |
| 26 | Because it 's not the baddies we 're getting at we 're getting at a lot of the goodies and we 're hurting them . |
| 27 | Ears we go |
| 28 | Would find ears we 'd rather it did n't reach ? ’ |
| 29 | I often think that if we dressed in old Barbours and flat caps we would n't create so much antipathy . |
| 30 | Promise carrots we ca n't deliver , or use threats that are destructive and cruel . |