Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] we [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We therefore add a supplement so that we know that the horse is definitely receiving vital micro nutrients ( these are nutrients required in very small quantities ) . |
| 2 | The actual concentration of an industry is hard to assess precisely and there are many different measures of it ( eg if we say that the five firm concentration ratio is 85 per cent , this means that the largest five firms in the industry control 85 per cent of the market ; a two firm concentration ratio of 100 per cent indicates that two firms completely dominate the market ) . |
| 3 | Once again , pragmatism can be defended as providing a good fit with what judges actually do and say in hard cases only if we assume that a pragmatist would have noble-lie reasons for constructing and deferring to the best account of the principle underlying past cases in these situations . |
| 4 | This is not so and we stress that the results in Fig. 1.1 are routinely found . |
| 5 | Finally , we see that Xv ( σ xz ) is - 1 , so and we deduce that the vibration is of symmetry species b 2 . |
| 6 | But there is no doing so unless we accept that the literal writer has an imagination . |
| 7 | It was not long before we decided that the question had to be turned on its head . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Or rather , the distinctions between the repressed and the excluded , the subjective and the social , break down , especially when we recall that the other is often constructed via , or in terms of , the proximate . |
| 11 | I will argue later in Chapter 6 that powerless groups are not a small minority especially when we realize that the cherished pattern of lifetime employment applies to barely 30 per cent of labour , within which there are only a tiny percentage of women . |
| 12 | In reality it 's nowhere near as bad as the Scouse hype during the 80's , it 's just that we found that a bit easier to take . |
| 13 | We use the word " mimicry " for these cases , not because we think that the animals consciously imitate other things , but because natural selection has favoured those individuals whose bodies were mistaken for other things . |
| 14 | Engineers already knew this , just as we know that the refrigerator will not work if it is not plugged in ; but Carnot 's achievement , when recognized after a quarter of a century , allowed theoretical understanding and in the end further advance in practice . |
| 15 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 16 | Speaking of the activities of elementary particle physicists , he writes that whereas the activity appears essential as long as we believe in the independent existence of fundamental laws that we can still hope to know better , it loses practically its whole motivation as soon as we believe that the sole objective of the scientists is to make their impressions mutually consistent . |
| 17 | It will take us even further if we assume that the dependence of effects on causes is smooth . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | How can we accept Matthew Arnold 's faith in the civilising influence of art , Steiner asks , now that we know that a ‘ man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening , that he can play Bach and Schubert , and go to his day 's work at Auschwitz in the morning ’ ( p. 15 ) . |
| 20 | Now that we understand that the axis of the earth has moved significantly , we realize that today 's stargazers see a different sky from their predecessors . |
| 21 | In due course the details of the recovery filtered back and we learned that the tern had been ringed as a fledgling in a colony in southern Sweden only a couple of weeks earlier . |
| 22 | Even if we believed that the public interest could perhaps be equated with goals supported by a broad social consensus so that the spectre of management indulging its own personal moral and political preferences under the guise of pursuing socially worthwhile goals no longer haunted us difficulties would still remain . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , even if we know that a urinary rhythm is due partly to the body clock , we can not yet be confident about details of the way in which this clock produces the rhythms in renal elimination . |
| 24 | Thus , even if we assume that a significant proportion are well supported either by relatives or by services purchased with their own money , it is highly probable that personal social services see only the tip of an iceberg of unmet needs . |
| 25 | Even if we admit that an element of calculation usually enters into racist practices , rather than blind hatred , it is clear that this model ignores the deeper reaches of the racist imagination , the structures of feeling and phantasy which are embedded in even the most rationalized forms of racist argument and action . |
| 26 | The first is that even if we concluded that a representative democracy was the best that could be achieved under modern circumstances , the idea or principle of representation is far from being fully or effectively embodied in existing political arrangements . |
| 27 | Even if we notice that the new dog has become a follower , we regard it as part of a strong friendship . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Unfortunately no-one had been able to see her accommodation beforehand and we found that the hotel she had been booked into was a nightmare — tatty rooms with cigarette burns , door handles which fell off , threadbare carpets . |
| 30 | 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 . |