Example sentences of "[noun] [be] that they [verb] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of these articles is that they remind us forcibly of the false dawn which often surrounds new treatments . |
| 2 | And if some of the material in the book seems occasionally to verge on the utopian , it is worth reminding ourselves that , as Jan Montefiore says in Feminism and Poetry , ‘ the value of utopias is that they enable us to imagine possibilities of difference for the brute contingent world ’ . |
| 3 | The value of concepts and cognitive structures is that they enable us to classify events and to make judgments and ( unlike repertoires of behaviours and lists of facts ) enable us to solve new problems . |
| 4 | 4 One problem with many passages in Eliot 's plays is that they send us to similar but stronger passages in the poetry . |
| 5 | The other aspect of theories is that they enable us to make generalizations . |
| 6 | The reason for the excitement in using lasers is that they enable us to study unstable nuclei , which was not previously possible . |
| 7 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 8 | The answer is that they told us that they tried this several times and it did not work . |