Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] that it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do implement such measures where we believe that it is right to do so , but we have opposed the working time directive , for example , because it could have added an extra £5 billion to British industry 's costs . |
| 2 | Although we know that it is easy enough to gain weight or eat unhealthily without indulging in desserts and sweet things , it is usually this ‘ extra ’ which is among the first to go when you are trying to keep to a low-calorie , low-fat regime . |
| 3 | If we now look at the ego , as opposed to the id , then immediately we see that it is , it is emphatically not true to claim that Freud was a Hobbesian social thinker . |
| 4 | This perspective puts mathematics educators in a very comfortable position , until we recognise that it is not uncontentious and , in any case , is rarely made explicit to children , which would involve them in a detailed consideration of how mathematics has developed and the relations between abstract mathematics and reality . |
| 5 | In the same fashion , Kant maintained , the nature of our knowledge can not be understood if we assume that it is simply fed into us from outside ourselves , and that we are merely passive recipients of information from the world around us . |
| 6 | Of course the distinction drawn above only remains if we assume that it is possible for us to understand a proposition which we would or could never be justified in believing or could never come to know to be true . |
| 7 | But even if we assume that it is sound at an abstract philosophical level , it would be extremely dubious to assert that this theory can justify our present practices of punishment or anything like them . |
| 8 | If we accept that it is reasonable for Health to sell its message in this way , why are we wary of religion ? |
| 9 | ‘ If we find that it is true that he made these deals he could lose his permit , ’ he said . |
| 10 | If we believe that it is right to push back the boundaries of middle age a few years , we can happily keep our young tastes and looks for a bit longer . |
| 11 | It is difficult to deal sensibly with the craze unless we remember that it is the latest in a series of recognisably similar phenomena , which the law has had difficulty in regulating : the early ‘ happenings ’ , influenced by LSD ; the ‘ blues parties ’ , which were the last to hit the headlines ; the continuing ‘ northern soul ’ craze , and no doubt others which even the participants have long since forgotten . |
| 12 | While the report argues that it is crucial that social workers identify ‘ high risk ’ , the report comments that ‘ We do not define ‘ high risk ’ , mainly because we think that it is not susceptible of definition' ( London Borough of Brent , 1985 , p.288 ) . |
| 13 | We will not support the Government 's proposals in relation to the maintenance of quality in higher education because we think that it is wrong for the people who determine quality in higher education to be the same as those who determine funding — |
| 14 | For our part , we wish to step back from philosophical issues , not because they are totally irrelevant but because we believe that it is not necessary , from a sociological research point of view , to take them up . |
| 15 | While we believe that it is important to continue researching and improving existing products , we also devote more than 50 per cent of our Research and Development resource to developing new products , pushing back the frontiers of technology . |
| 16 | Having reviewed the matter , taking the above into consideration , we write formally to withdraw our Appeal , as whilst we consider that it is appropriate that further development should take place in the village , on this occasion we defer to local feeling . |
| 17 | Most conductors of my generation have to go through different experiences before we understand that it 's not the main thing in the world to conduct all American orchestras . |
| 18 | Before we establish that it is proper to equate slaves and masters with the association between employee and employer today , an important question of Biblical background and ethics needs to be addressed . |
| 19 | This discrepancy , however , disappears when we recognize that it is not in individual nerve impulses that we must seek our representations of the world , but in their patterns . |
| 20 | In any case , the contradiction which Marx stresses very largely disappears when we realize that it is a matter of the context in which claim to land is expressed . |
| 21 | Bob Ewell who is the father of the so called victim , Mayella , is prepared to use his influence as a white to get Tom convicted even though we know that it is Bob Ewell who should be taking the punishment as it is made clear in the trial that he is the person who abuses Mayella not Tom . |
| 22 | We want to strengthen that lead , as we believe that it is in the interests of British industry , British science and the world environment . |