Example sentences of "that the [noun sg] we [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are reminded that the romance we seek is constructed for the outsider . |
| 2 | However , there seems to be more to the formation of a child 's personality at birth than these two viewpoints — that we are either born as a blank sheet or that the formation we have is via our mother , and begins prior to our birth . |
| 3 | It may be true that the life we destroy is in the main of the lower orders or minute forms , but it is none the less destruction of life for all that , and since ahi sā involves doing no injury to any form of life , it follows that no matter how careful and compassionate and self-restrained a person may be he can not entirely escape committing hi sā . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't you ever realise , ’ said Helen , ‘ that the way we live is unlike the way other people live ? ’ |
| 5 | Implying that the water we supply is worse than what 's in Europe , and the sewage effluence we put into rivers is not as good as the rest of Europe . |
| 6 | What is the Government or anyone else doing to ensure that the food we buy is safe , and what can you , the consumer , do to help matters ? |
| 7 | It is in all our interests that the impression we give is the right one . |
| 8 | To ensure that the information we use is correct each potential purchaser must be telephoned and the following determined : |
| 9 | However , we can nearly as easily do the sum for the theoretical elastic breaking strain , and if we do this , we are apt to find that the answer we get is very roughly the same for any solid , almost irrespective of its chemical entity . |
| 10 | The title of his last book , Possible Worlds , gives a key to the process : that the world we inhabit is by no means the only one , but only one of any number we may care to imagine . |
| 11 | Reading such a text we are reminded that the world we inhabit is constructed , not given ; constructed in language . |
| 12 | I do n't want to start haunting Chambers ’ doorstep , yet I want to be absolutely sure that the moment we pick is the right one . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But I just want to make sure , and we are really close to it , that the agreement we have is to my liking . |
| 14 | We believe that the assumptions we have made are reasonable and that the picture we paint is a valid one . |