Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [that] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC documentary that alerted people in Britain to the implication of the silicon chip ( Ed Goldwyn 's Now the Chips are Down that we mentioned in Chapter 1 ) ended with the alarming questions : |
| 2 | Well it 's impossible at the moment , with the media coverage and the erm information about war and the situation in the Gulf , not to touch children , however careful the adults around them may be , and it 's very important for us as adults to not be so caught up , in our excitement perhaps even , about what 's going on and all the razzmatazz that may be attached to the sort of glory of whose ever side they may be on that we forget the extent to which children are very much affected by how they see the adults around them respond to what 's going on . |
| 3 | The objectives are surely that we do the Liberal Democrats some real good , both nationally and in this area , in the longer term as well as for next June . |
| 4 | Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question . |
| 5 | Similarly , C. S. Lewis 's The Allegory of Love is praised by Kathleen Tillotson for charting the nature and evolution of two " principles " , or fundamental movements of the human mind — romantic love and allegory : " It is rarely that we meet with a work of literary criticism of such manifest and general importance as this . " |
| 6 | But Mr Bliss is right that we have to assume that the abductors are politically motivated terrorists — ‘ ' |
| 7 | My hon. Friend is right that we have the most generous system in the developed world for supporting students . |
| 8 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 9 | It 's basically that we feel the group has to be thrown into different circumstances if it 's going to be stimulated , if it 's going to change . |
| 10 | ‘ In the present circumstances it is enough that we help each other , neh ? ’ |
| 11 | It is enough that we see these things and sit with her while she drinks manzanilla or brandy to wash the sight away ( though we are never told why she drinks ) — these things are enough to make us participate in what we surmise she must be feeling . |
| 12 | He can measure every clause of what the income is , against what the expenditure is so that we have some control to ensure that the church life grows and we do n't stumble . |
| 13 | A second reason is perhaps that we have not obtained many of the much-trumpeted benefits that we were promised from the original Common Market . |
| 14 | that 's so that we do n't have to mess about with it , it , it |
| 15 | We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now , yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we need to maintain three Trident systems and possibly build a fourth at a total cost of more than £23 billion . |
| 16 | It is thus that we understand |
| 17 | However , our real weakness is not that we lack the potential , but that we lack the will to act . |
| 18 | the problem with Jesus ' disciples and the point here is that it 's our problem as well , is not that we lack a big faith . |
| 19 | Its importance , however , is not that we know when doubt becomes unbelief ( for only God knows this and human attempts to say so can be cruel ) , but that we should be clear about where doubt leads to as it grows into unbelief . |
| 20 | In fact what young children demand of us is not that we dilute the work , but that we make it more exciting , more tightly focused . |
| 21 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 22 | The reason for setting out these reservations at such length is not that we have any doubts about the value to consumers of credit cost information . |
| 23 | Presumably some patrol ship on the high seas might log messages in this way , but it is clear that , as humans , our experience of utterances is not that we have recorded in memory a list of utterances to which are attached standard tags specifying time and place in these terms . |
| 24 | ‘ It is not that we do n't like banks , just , well , I 've never even had a personal overdraft . ’ |
| 25 | It is just that we do treat them as propositions which need no justification but which can justify others . |
| 26 | It 's just that we 've received soooooo many queries asking ‘ when ’ , ‘ who ’ and ‘ … how much ’ that we 've decided to give you the full story here ( maybe NOW you 'll stop inundating us with begging letters ! ) |
| 27 | ‘ It 's just that we 've learnt to pay more attention to what we 're doing and use our budget wisely . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's just that we 've learnt to pay more attention to what we 're doing and use our budget wisely . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't think it 's any worse now , it 's just that we 've written no about it . |
| 30 | It 's just that we went down there . |