Example sentences of "an [noun] that we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes we were actually erm , the position of the control vehicle was erm in front of an ambulance that we had asked to be there and the crew were briefed as to what we were doing and and what injuries possibly could arise . |
| 2 | But as Lazaris reminds us , money ( like nature ) is just a set of vibrations , an illusion that we create — and we can have as much as we like of an illusion ! |
| 3 | If reality is an illusion that we create — no more ‘ real ’ than Middle Earth or Valhalla — then it raises an important question . |
| 4 | certain of the elements combine so naturally and with so powerful an effect that we pursue that path of combination as a path in its own right and forget about the problem we are trying to solve . |
| 5 | He makes the point that the love of God is not an emotion that we have to drum up in ourselves . |
| 6 | It was beautiful , an antique that we picked up at a flea market in Bath . |
| 7 | Our observations are related to an issue that we believe has been unduly neglected — the question of how completely we interpret texts . |
| 8 | Can I perhaps to that point raise an issue that we discussed at the meeting , and that was this whole point about de-sulphurisation , and use of low sulphur coal . |
| 9 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 10 | No what amazes me Mr Chairman is that here we are , we 're being cost conscious on every ground and we 're saying we 're making a statement that we enter into an exercise that we have no idea , we 're not asking for the actual cost , we are asking , we are asking you must of had an idea what it would cost or I feel Mr Chairman that that , can I put it mildly , lack of planning and certainly financial planning possibly |
| 11 | That 's an exercise that we complete each year actually updating the Teachers Pensions Agency of your particular service details . |
| 12 | Yes that 's hello this is just an article that we went through last tutorial adjustment developing countries . |
| 13 | Erm , and I feel very strongly , and I urge members to consider that we should support this as a matter of principle , to help er , that group of our society , I me , I was going to suggest an amendment that we ask for the average age of this council erm , |
| 14 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 15 | Chris Bonington said ‘ This year we are hoping to attract teams from all over the country to an event that we believe to be a great way of linking people here with the millions still suffering from probably the world 's most disabling disease . ’ |
| 16 | This may be an art that we need to rediscover , since in modern society the positive attributes of age are usually ignored , the cult of youth being dominant . |
| 17 | This is because we hope to establish an informality that we feel will be suitable here , even if it might be inappropriate in degree coursework , in a PhD thesis or in a research monograph . |
| 18 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 19 | an area that we had n't attempted before . |
| 20 | Mr Chairman I , I mentioned that whilst welcoming the report , erm our motion is to say is , is of a more general nature , we 're looking at the , what is really has er greater standing for financial costs and other practical difficulties involved in increasing the proportion of waste erm who acts as that recycled in the County and apparent progress in meeting government recycling are not being too much and what needs a job and whilst we recognise that responsibility with this requires primarily with the District Council rather than County Council as their question of authority erm it 's an area that we have n't had much erm , the , there has n't been perhaps to the environment committee for some , some time now and I would like to s to actually look at this , look at this again because it is a fairly fast moving , ch changing area , so erm this really is then more of a general , general information and to look at it again . |
| 21 | That is our intention , er we are organizing briefing sessions for officers , and taking an approach which we want to get the information distributed to the workplace and that is clearly an area that we wan na develop . |
| 22 | I feel that the subject of syllabic consonants is an area that we need to know more about , and that there has not yet been enough discussion of the problems found in their analysis . |
| 23 | That 's an assurance that we 've given them . |
| 24 | Just like we can create an image that we want . |
| 25 | That is , attempting to provide an account of what a person is talking about is always built on an assumption that we know why that person says what he says . |
| 26 | That is , if observation provides us with a secure set of observation statements as our starting-point ( an assumption that we have granted for the sake of the argument of this chapter ) , why is it that inductive reasoning leads to reliable and perhaps even true scientific knowledge ? |
| 27 | This is an assumption that we believe to be fatally flawed , for the reasons we have outlined earlier . |
| 28 | The ability to fly is a property of an airliner that we specify in advance . |
| 29 | So maybe what we call imaginary time is really more basic , and what we call real is just an idea that we invent to help us describe what we think the universe is like . |
| 30 | We had to assume many of the debts of Ferdinand Marcos and his associates and this has increased the repayments to banks like Barclays to such an extent that we have had to agree to the conditions of the IMF to get new money . |