Example sentences of "and that we " in BNC.

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1 As before , he was concerned to hear that we had enjoyed a good flight to his native city , had found a good hotel and that we were managing to survive the bitter cold , the snow and the ice of a Canadian winter .
2 These two assumptions are : that our main questions should be about how individual mental states relate to individual neural events ; and that we should view the mind primarily as something which represents reality .
3 I want to look at the consequences of replacing these assumptions by two others : that we should concentrate on how mind might develop out of matter ; and that we should view the mind primarily as something which enables action .
4 The important thing is that the Thirty Year Rule is in force and that we can respond to developing perceptions of our times . ’
5 We face Labour 's jibe that the Government holds all our revenue and that we can only save 20 per cent from our house sales . ’
6 ‘ I am fasting in the hope that others will take part , for an hour or for days , and that we will show our personal commitment to this country by limiting our material needs . ’
7 People from the stations we visited in such areas , or whom we encountered upon their being transferred to Easton , felt policing there was not typical and that we were obtaining an unrealistic view .
8 So he created a smokescreen , making the excuse that he did n't think Steve was a good enough guitarist by himself and that we needed a second guitar .
9 It would not be a source of comfort to the hardpressed British public if they were to become aware that ( reckoning our overseas statistics globally not a single bean of substance for themselves or of capital equipment for British manufacturers is likely to be left over from the American credit ; and that we shall require , on balance , the whole of it , and , unless we change our ways , much more to feed and sustain Allies , liberated territories and ex-enemies , to maintain our military prestige overseas , and , generally speaking to cut a dash in the world considerably above our means .
10 Hyam believes that the sexual activities of imperialist manpower have been erased from the historical record , or else written about in stereotyped ways which had little to do with reality , and that we are therefore left with an incomplete understanding of the colonial experience .
11 At this stage we were selling about three thousand tons of polyester film a year and my two closest lieutenants , my planning and marketing colleagues , persuaded me we should double the size of the plant at Dumfries in Scotland and that we should build another plant in Europe .
12 It was vital to give the impression at any rate that I and my board colleagues were in control of affairs and that we had a clear strategy that somehow was going to restore our business to its former glory .
13 Eventually , when he has decided that we wish to learn and that we love the Ocean as much as he does , he teaches us things that it is important to know .
14 As a result I undergo a bout of conscience , taking the short rod only when Odd-Knut assures me that we will eat whatever we catch , and that we will probably not catch anything .
15 So too with the body clock : it might be that several outputs with different periods are possible and that we tend to concentrate upon the daily or circadian clock because this is the period that is most useful to the organism and which has naturally been accentuated by the environment with its 24-hour period .
16 And that we have an obligation to listen to noise because it shows us the grim truth of reality .
17 I told him that we were n't eating and that we were n't paying the rent — almost destitute .
18 So we told him that we were n't interested in tonight 's gig and that we 'd take the money and go now .
19 Epicurus did , indeed , place supreme value on ‘ pleasure ’ ; but he thought of this as the calm tranquillity and freedom from anxiety which would be achieved by realizing that there is no life after death , and that we are not subject to outside divine influences .
20 In this , the statement by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission ( ARCIC ) II , ‘ Salvation and the Church ’ , is a major breakthrough because theologians from the Roman Catholic and Anglican Communions were able to state together the ‘ once-for-all ’ offering of Christ on the cross , and that we are not saved by good works but for good works .
21 But I was even more thrilled by the fact that our little tiff had been meaningless and that we were still good friends .
22 ft informed us that he was leaving Salamanca for England on his motor bike , via Cherbourg , and that we could expect him in Bath on a certain day .
23 We live in a historical period ; written records are kept and we tend to assume that our records are correct and that we can accurately reconstruct the events of the past .
24 Evidence is growing , however , that we have a need to express our grief and that we ignore it at our peril .
25 It suits us that haste is made slowly and that we have to think and plan before we commit ourselves .
26 While non-evangelicals and atheists might agree that there have been historically specific benefits from Protestantism , and that we ought to preserve such benefits , the evangelical adds a more direct link with the belief that God will punish us if we deviate further from his commands .
27 Who has demonstrated that there will be a tomorrow , and that we shall die ?
28 Did you not yourself say that our love must be holy ? ’ or when she pointed out that his ‘ lovely poems ’ would have been less lovely if she had not pro vided ‘ the unrest and storm that made them possible ’ : ‘ Beloved I will pray with my whole strength that suffering and temptation may be taken from you as they have been taken from me and that we may gain spiritual union stronger than earthly union could ever be . ’
29 There is already a feeling in some people 's minds that in athletics , as in so many other aspects of life , what can be done with the human body will be done , and that we might as well let them get on with it .
30 ‘ There is a widespread view that the current rate is indefensible and that we will suffer great damage if we continue to attempt to defend it , ’ he said .
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