Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that we " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 2 | Old friends would not want to know us , perhaps frightened that we would become a burden upon them . |
| 3 | It was n't a safe time to communicate as the guards often popped in to see that we were still exercising . |
| 4 | ‘ We suddenly realized that we were as free as air , and could n't think of a thing to do with this unexpected liberty . |
| 5 | Now this is people 's traditional expectation and they still have it , whereas we 're of the mind that instead of this er you 've very cleverly got in this circle and the last day that I suddenly realized that we 're all equal and moving around in a reasonably organized manner but still we 're rather loose , whereas the traditional view is a parish councillor says it and everybody does the rest , with a few er renegades and revolutionaries at varying parts in your parish . |
| 6 | And does the fact that one in four people in Britain now lives alone mean that we have finally achieved the highest aspirations of humanity , or that we are victims of an ideology of individualism that has distorted even our deepest relationships ? |
| 7 | Right , so say that we have thirty , three observations , right we 've got three parameters in this particular model , right , therefore degrees of freedom will be thirty , right , and we 've jusk the critical values run across the rows alright . |
| 8 | Some needed only to know that we existed — that was enough for them to throw themselves wholeheartedly into the gay life . |
| 9 | It was as warm as summer , the temperature an amazing 15.5° C. So warm that we had earlier seen a comma butterfly on the wing . |
| 10 | We would do better to accept that we can not say precisely how much of the book dates from this last stage , although there were , no doubt , changes of various kinds , including deletions . |
| 11 | I suddenly realise that we are attacking the enemy positions and we are now running through the trees . |
| 12 | One large reason is that it is now often enough claimed that we take effects to be events that might not have occurred , given all things exactly as they were beforehand . |
| 13 | Nor will it come from exports , which are now falling because the pound is so overvalued that we can not have export success at its present level of valuation . |
| 14 | We always had busloads of Glen Miller fans turning up , because the name ‘ The Dance Kings ’ kinda denoted that we would be playing that kind of music . |
| 15 | As the other tourists sipped port by the river and watched the sunset , following our currency episode earlier in the day and failure to find an open bank we had to count out our escudos , only to find that we all could afford were a couple of beers . |
| 16 | Miraculously , we surfaced the other side of the wave only to find that we were rapidly sinking ; my spray deck had caved in with the force of the water . |
| 17 | We are constantly reminded that we can not use the visible indicators as value assessments . |
| 18 | We have all wished that we 'd had the perfect retort at some time , but most of us can only think of something smart about three days later . |
| 19 | It was constantly stressed that we are now only qualified to dive in the conditions in which we learnt , that we should always go out with people of greater experience , and that with recreational diving ( which PADI stress this diving is ) , you never go deeper than 30 metres unless you have a specific reason , i.e. a wreck . |
| 20 | We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things . |
| 21 | Mr Gibbon has rightly said that we do n't really know what is asked . |
| 22 | The danger is the convert being more zealous than the Pope in suddenly believing that we can abdicate on all issues of policy . |
| 23 | I can only repeat that we esteem his son 's achievements , that we wish him well in his future and that his family has good cause to think kindly of a school which has provided an excellent education , many opportunities and much success . |
| 24 | For there is no doubt that our prevailing intuitions about ourselves as agents , and a number of associated philosophical arguments about the concepts of choice , action and responsibility , have tended to make the case of individualism seem not merely strong , but so compelling that we have no option but to accept it . |
| 25 | I suddenly noticed that we were diving down again . |
| 26 | Dining in the perfect Jacobean hall of Trinity it was only fitting that we should wear dinner jackets ( Hooray for a touch of elitism ! ) |
| 27 | But it so happens that we can compare the situation during the years 1070 to 1123 with a similar train of events at Canterbury just a hundred years later . |
| 28 | Now it so happens that we can make the same substitution of forms in an otherwise completely different sentence , producing an exactly parallel change of meaning : |
| 29 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 30 | But this only shows that we will not learn the whole meaning at once , at the beginning . |