Example sentences of "what we [verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that the British Medical Association say it 's under-funded to the tune of six billion pounds but we 'll say what we said before we took control of this Council , we 'll open the books and we 'll direct resources to priorities . |
| 2 | And as a result of that we really have got overcapacity which we 've declared publicly so , you know , we 're not saying anything different today than what we said when we first purchased the business in July and August . |
| 3 | That is why the politicians want to muzzle us and control what we write and you read . |
| 4 | There is a tremendous deficit between what we import and what we export . |
| 5 | … it is what we imply when we speak of Primitive Culture . |
| 6 | Right , which is what we got when we did it the other way . |
| 7 | There is a grey area for all of us , a philosophical no-man's-land between what we know and what we do not know . |
| 8 | We are also influenced by the situation in which we receive messages , by our cultural and social relationship with the participants , by what we know and what we assume the sender knows . |
| 9 | What we perceive or what another species perceives ? |
| 10 | ‘ Russia needs effective democratic government respecting the rule of law — that is what we support and what you are seeking to achieve , ’ Mr Major said . |
| 11 | Perhaps it is , perhaps it is not ; our ignorance shows that what we mean when we speak of personal identity is continuity of consciousness , not of substance . |
| 12 | Which is what we mean when we talk of true harmony . |
| 13 | It expresses what we mean when we say that we have our reservations or vacillate about something . |
| 14 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 15 | That 's what we mean when we say that we make cookers for cooks . |
| 16 | To discover the impressive contemporary relevance of such imperatives , we need to establish what we mean when we speak of covetousness , and what is envisaged in the Bible by the idea of coveting . |
| 17 | From their written works it would appear that most psychologists up to about 1935 have assumed that these three things , separately or together , must constitute the whole of what we mean when we speak of a person feeling a touch as a touch on his shoulder or a pain as a pain in his foot . |
| 18 | ‘ So you can see , Commander Talbot , what we mean when we talk about the greatest good of the greatest number . |
| 19 | But an example like this clearly reveals the artificiality of such an analysis of what we mean when we say we see , and we have already considered the grounds for rejecting such theories in accounting for capacities like remembering , and emotions such as grief or anger . |
| 20 | This example demonstrates what we mean when we say that choices are never totally ‘ free ’ but are influenced in complex ways by the socialisation process and by practical constraints . |
| 21 | The aim of this chapter is to question the subject matter that they so confidently explored , for it is by no means clear what we mean when we raise the prospect of ‘ a history of sexuality ’ . |
| 22 | To take some simple lexical examples : judgement and judgment are two orthographic encodings , or variants , of the same ( syntactic level ) word ; often and frequently are two syntactic level encodings of the same meaning ( which is what we mean when we say they are " synonyms " ) . |
| 23 | It is a phrase that underlies nearly all discussions on public policy , political action , social value and individual interest , yet there is no agreement as to what we mean when we use the term . |
| 24 | That is what we mean when we say that the Labour party is advocating an envy tax . |
| 25 | We were looking for a precise way to express what we mean when we refer to something as complicated . |
| 26 | Guess what we saw when we looked in at their sitting-room window ? |
| 27 | We got what we deserved because we batted awfully . ’ |
| 28 | The question is what there is about what we learnt when we learnt the rule for + 2 which makes the continuation 20,002 , 20,004 , 20,006 objectively correct , and 20,004 , 20,008 , 20,012 objectively incorrect . |
| 29 | Well it 's either three or six months but er it 's , it 's similar to what we have but I know she took her own little policy out . |
| 30 | By keeping up-to-date-records of our objects and where they are we are trying our hardest to behave responsibly with what we have and what we know we have . ’ |