Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] we [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 2 | In analysing this argument , Hirschi ( 1973 , p. 171 ) concludes that ‘ Sociology will suffer … so long as we believe that our assumptions guarantee truth , while their assumptions guarantee error , whatever the facts may be ’ . |
| 3 | The class can take on the role of any group of people unified by a common concern or problem , so long as we ensure that every child has an active role to play . |
| 4 | So long as we think that good must be identical with some one natural property we can not but suppose that all good things have some such property in common . |
| 5 | Now the machine-code analogy works well only so long as we forget that all a computer program has to do is run . |
| 6 | This is not so and we stress that the results in Fig. 1.1 are routinely found . |
| 7 | He was a very good teacher of theology , but it was not long before we discovered that he had a dreadful fear that the depression that was sweeping Europe , as well as this country , was becoming the cause of another even worse war . |
| 8 | It was not long before we decided that the question had to be turned on its head . |
| 9 | Thus even if we accept that the duty of directors to act in the best interests of shareholders can be equated with a duty to maximize profits this does not provide us with any real assurance that the wishes of the shareholders are being executed by the directors or that we have a satisfactory way of controlling the discretion accorded to directors in the name of the Rule of Law . |
| 10 | But the fact is that the government is looking for a huge expansion in student numbers nationally and we at Birmingham are keen to play our part , not least because we know that there are many more people who can benefit from a university education ( as you have done ) than are able to at present . |
| 11 | It is emphasized still further when we see that of the latter group none has external lockboard battens . |
| 12 | We can understand this more clearly if we imagine that the tables have been turned , and that we are trying to get by in basic dolphin-language . |
| 13 | In reaching his decision he founded himself on the only reported case as far as we know that has been decided under this provision ; it is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Brown v Liverpool Corporation [ 1969 ] 3 AER 1345 . |
| 14 | It would take a musical analysis to find out whether the offerings to which these two extremes respond are really worlds apart ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 13 ) , we know that the question implied in the final sentence has already been answered in his own mind , just as surely as we know that he has not done the musical analysis but simply conflated Elvis and … whom ? |
| 15 | This ability is accounted for most simply if we assume that the recruits have mental maps of the surroundings on which they somehow ‘ place ’ the spots indicated by the dances . |
| 16 | After all , we may be learning as we go along but it is n't long before we discover that not everybody has a sylph-like waist or arms that with a little stretch will trail along the floor ! |
| 17 | It will take us even further if we assume that the dependence of effects on causes is smooth . |
| 18 | Yet let us always beware of jumping to conclusions , of assuming too readily that those experienced parliamentary draftsmen did not know their business and , perhaps above all , of attributing legislative intention too readily simply because we think that we , the judges , had we been the legislators , would have found such an intention sensible or morally or politically desirable . |
| 19 | Perhaps it will make dealing with such a situation a little easier if we realise that there really is a reason for it and that the way in which we handle it may well go a long way towards aiding our spiritual development . |