Example sentences of "we [am/are] [adv] [vb pp] that " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But we are reliably informed that Angus will be back on his feet and more importantly that seat tomorrow . |
| 2 | However , we are also reminded that Pinnacle has n't been taped out yet so it 's still only hopes and dreams time over at Cypress . |
| 3 | And we are also told that there could be a case where the peasantry had no such effect . |
| 4 | We are also told that the lopsided mouth |
| 5 | We are also told that the new Teesdale and Teesside Park developments are in Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 6 | Yet we are also agreed that it can never be complete in itself . |
| 7 | We are confidently informed that the ‘ amazing dreamgirl ’ with whom he partook of a ‘ romantic stroll through the mist ’ is his inamorata . |
| 8 | But we are soon warned that the young officer in the Venturer hides in his memory the image of a girl met years before , so that his response to a strange night-vision seems entirely logical . |
| 9 | ( We are frequently reminded that the brain has many millions of neurones and that these have many billions of connections ) . |
| 10 | We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things . |
| 11 | We are sometimes scared that , if we tell the other person what we think , we may hurt that person . |
| 12 | In our day , as mentioned in chapter one , we are sometimes told that the efforts of our statesmen , the voting procedures of our councils , the ethical advances of our humanitarians , are being directed by the Holy Spirit . |
| 13 | We are now told that , having been lied to over the years , the British people now have the prospect of political union , and they react against it and shy away . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the third sentence sends us reeling back to square one in terms of methodological confusion : we are now told that just because Keynes had tried to provide a theoretical underpinning for the concept of involuntary unemployment does not , ipso facto , oblige subsequent theorists to ‘ 'explain ’ the theoretical constructs of our predecessors ' . |
| 15 | We are then told that he is sitting outside the church built to the dedication of Saint Francis ‘ Brother of the poor ’ . |
| 16 | To all whom this epistle shall come , Greetings — Whereas we have been credibly informed by our well-beloved subject the right honourable Lord Clovelly , of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk , and on behalf of our well-beloved subject Christopher Everard , Gentleman , that the said Christopher Everard hath lately discovered several Islands in the Hesperidean seas towards the continent of America , the one called Saint Thomas 's , alias Everhope ( though this be error ) , or in the native tongue Liamuiga , and another , as the savages of those parts name it , Oualie ; that we are further informed that these said Islands are possessed and inhabited only by the aforementioned savages and heathen people , and are not , nor at the time of the discovery were , in the possession or under the government of any Christian Prince , state or potentate , and thereupon the said Christopher Everard , being set forth and supplied on our shores for that purpose , made entry into the said Islands for and on behalf of our dear Father in heaven , and hath since with the consent and good liking of the natives made some beginning of a plantation and colony and likewise of an hopeful trade there , and hath caused divers of our subjects of this realm to remove themselves to the said Islands with purpose to proceed in so hopeful a work : KNOW THEREFORE that the said Lord Clovelly and Christopher Everard may be encouraged and the better enabled with the more ample maintenance and authority to effect the same , We do command the said Christopher Everard to be possessed of the said Islands and all our other loving subjects under him : And of our especial great and certain knowledge have given and granted unto the said Christopher Everard during our pleasure custody of the aforesaid Islands and of every creature , man , woman and child upon them together with full power and authority for us and in our name and as our Lieutenant to govern rule and order all . |
| 17 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 18 | We are constantly reminded that we can not use the visible indicators as value assessments . |
| 19 | So we 're definitely agreed that we ask the Town Clerk to make those two contacts and to put it on the agenda for the Planning Committee ? |