Example sentences of "[noun sg] that we [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was therefore with some disappointment that we faced Dad 's inquiries about them next morning . |
| 2 | Unless Yugoslav commanders receive some clear indication that we mean business in Austria their infiltration tactics will lead to an impossible situation . " |
| 3 | It happens to be a physical fact that the light that we call red has a longer wavelength than the light that we call blue . |
| 4 | It seems to be the case that we interweave desire and pleasure with pain and punishment ; that for women , the chasing of elusive sexual goals remains familiar , and our pleasure is indeed obscured behind a barbed wire fence of masochistic images . |
| 5 | It is this faculty which sees the subtle physical aspects of the aura , for instance , while in full outward manifestation this faculty is expressed as our physical eyes , which are sensitive to the small section of the electromagnetic spectrum that we call light . |
| 6 | But it is from after the change that we have evidence for Councillors like Kleon and the fourth-century Athenian Demosthenes whose year on the Council fell at improbably convenient moments for their political careers ; this makes one suspect corruption , a suspicion strengthened by Aischines ' direct accusation that Demosthenes bribed his way onto the Council in 346 ( iii.62 ) . |
| 7 | Well see that 's , that 's one route that we do business and the other route is through recommendations from , from either other people |
| 8 | However , the American-made McCulloch Blower Vac that we tested cost £120 , and is targeted at the private buyer with a large garden . |
| 9 | Most tone-units are of a type that we call simple , and the sort that we call compound are not discussed in this chapter . |
| 10 | In terms of the concentration of energy , it will occupy the smallest volume , and I do n't think it 's and accident that we use petrol . |
| 11 | They put forward the notion that we construct routine groupings of aspects of experience , schemata , which tend to occur regularly together . |
| 12 | Concentrating on systems-constraints , one may then ask what necessary and jointly sufficient conditions must be met in order for that highly co-ordinated kind of inter-dependent behaviour that we call interaction to " come off " . |
| 13 | This is a significant service that we provide tor the profession . |
| 14 | Erm I think that was the only occasion that we had difficulty in respect of a wages claim . |
| 15 | Um , I think it 's still going to be a hard fight , but I think today we 've shown the authority that we mean business . |
| 16 | As you 've seen from the erm discussion paper that we submitted sir , it 's our feeling that the most helpful way to proceed might be to add a new policy to the alteration . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're going to have to have a fairly visible presence there for quite a while to put the authoritarian opponents on notice that we mean business . ’ |
| 18 | It was with much sadness that we received news from Molly of the sudden death of Peggy Secord 's husband while they were in Italy . |
| 19 | But , like observers of cricket , we must not become so engrossed in our analysis of the statistics of the game that we lose sight of the fundamental issues of strategy . |
| 20 | It was with a sense of relief that we slunk east again , through a surprising ( but apparently intermittent ) east-west tide rip through the narrows of Akar Bogazi , for Kekova Roads . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm thinking it 's no bad thing that we 've Druim training a militia and extra Hearthwares for us . |
| 22 | The teacher might add the information that we need help from the aliens ourselves , or that the aliens look much more gentle than we had feared . |
| 23 | This is a massive step forward and signifies to the public that we mean business . ’ |
| 24 | If future technological societies ever learn to harness tachyons and modulate them ( in the same way that we modulate radio waves ) they will be able to communicate information from the future to the past . |
| 25 | In the first place , in the ( rare ) cases where sentence-meaning exhausts utterance-meaning ( i.e. where the speaker meant exactly what he said , no more , no less ) , the same content would be assigned both to semantics and pragmatics In other words , we would need to restrict the notion of utterance-meaning in such a way that we subtract sentence-meaning , and in that case we are back to a definition of pragmatics by residue . |
| 26 | The people of the Balkans have become addicted to guns , in the same way that we have drug addicts in other parts of the world . |
| 27 | What the world needs — and is increasingly getting — says Nathan Myhrvold , the company 's head of advanced technology , is ‘ innovation in the way that we distribute information ; we still communicate mainly by smearing ink across dead trees . ’ |
| 28 | Er , now the the point I really want to refer to is erm just what role an auditor ought to play er in the er insurance and financial service industry in looking at particular firms , erm I have several interests which the honourable member for Edinburgh central knows about , er the one that I think is relevant er to tonight is that I am an elected member of the insurance brokers registration council and the way that erm the way that we regulate insurance brokers erm is laid down by statute but it does actually demonstrate the advantage , the benefit of erm of having a statutory requirement for audit and for er a proper oversight of what then follows in terms of the way that the regulator reacts to what the auditor may say . |
| 29 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 30 | The BBC also has previously unheard material that we have access to . |