Example sentences of "we in " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do see this much more in foreign companies and I think if we in Britain could match the physical and the vocal more we would really be on top with our training resources . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister had spent 10 years trying to destroy the human spirit in Britain , but ‘ she has failed because we in this movement are not going to allow her ’ . |
| 3 | What are we in the job for if not for challenges like this ? |
| 4 | What part of the year are we in now , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 5 | Whatever may be the case in Russia , we in the degenerate West can switch off the radio or television , or not buy a newspaper , or not read such parts of it as we do not wish to . |
| 6 | Ten years later I discovered while watching the same film on TV that the shadow was n't part of the film after all : it was Um Al-Marhoom 's shadow [ Um Al-Marhoom is what we in the Middle East call the woman who is left without children after the death of her only son ] , trying to sell some boiled chickpeas to us children . |
| 7 | I think we in Europe have been a bit slow to recognise that we are in a totally new era . |
| 8 | Why were we in this bloody forest anyway ? |
| 9 | The intention is to highlight how today we in this country may join through our offerings with those of little or no material wealth in the Third World in the urgent task of making human development possible for even the poorest . |
| 10 | Thanks largely to our supporters around the world , we in UNICEF have put everything we can into our worldwide immunisation programme over the past few years . |
| 11 | Even the Prime Minister , Stanley Baldwin , got in on the act , speculating upon ‘ the enormous power which the film is developing for propaganda purposes , and the danger to which we in this country and our Empire subject ourselves if we allow that method of propaganda to be entirely in the hands of foreign countries . ’ |
| 12 | The bluster of the tear-stained pop stars simply buffeted , pushed away the possibility that the lyric ought to have contained certain small truths such as ‘ WE ARE THE SICK ONES , WE IN THE WEST ’ . |
| 13 | We in the Royal Air Force , if you ask for our professional advice , are convinced that we will require manned aircraft as far as we can see to supplement the missile in both the offensive and defensive roles . |
| 14 | We in the Church of England are not alone among Christians in having daunting questions to resolve . |
| 15 | ‘ We in the west of Ireland have all the old customs that survive in England here and there — the Garland Days , midsummer bonfires and decorated wells . |
| 16 | The we means ‘ someone in my group ’ , and when a Zuwayi used we in this sense , the reference group was small and was likely to include his own ancestors and relatives , men he could name in a line of descent which included both speaker and audience , which explained the existence and identity of each person , and provided them with a character and loyalties . |
| 17 | Do you not agree that you writers have had an easier time of it than we in the West , in a closed society where your cultural values are protected , albeit at a price ? |
| 18 | SIR — What irony that the Iron Curtain of communo-socialism has collapsed throughout Eastern Europe , but we in Britain are on the verge of possibly turning back the clock 13 years to renew our disastrous affair with socialism . |
| 19 | In a properly balanced meal , only one dish should be really hot although chilli/cayenne may be present in others — much as we in the West indiscriminately use black pepper . |
| 20 | Though never a gourmet , I appreciated also the food at Ika 's home , as I found what was provided at the Cité Universitaire almost inedible , even accustomed as we in Britain were to such unappetising fare as powdered egg and cakes baked with liquid paraffin . |
| 21 | I made my way to this celebrated establishment , and was very surprised to find an open salon ; we in Britain were at that time still cowering modestly in cubicles . |
| 22 | We in Britain gained much from accepting United States investment . |
| 23 | A German Ambassador once remarked to the author at a conference that he had referred several times to his constituents , ‘ whereas we in Germany believe in institutions ’ . |
| 24 | Both the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister have made clear that we in Britain reject the idea of a federal superstate . |
| 25 | But if it was as clever and efficient as we in the West say it is , then one might expect it to have achieved much more . |
| 26 | ‘ Which room are we in ? ’ |
| 27 | The message should be that schools are about education and learning and that worthwhile learning is hard work and we in good schools try to make this work as pleasurable as possible . |
| 28 | And we in the Middle East , we needed discipline more than anything else . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The road to Palestine ’ , we in Beirut were told by the PLO , lay through Jounieh , that pleasant Maronite port halfway between Beirut and Byblos . |
| 30 | And if happiness opens up to us such vast caverns of the soul , have we in a much greater sense been sufficiently aware of the greatness and the mystery of God ? |