Example sentences of "and that our " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must realise that other children 's values may be different , and that our children are affected by the pressure of their peers and others with whom they come in contact . |
| 2 | Enthusiastically he told me that he 'd always wanted to visit Morocco , live there even , and that our hashish was the best of all . |
| 3 | She feels imperialized , that everything familiar to her is being disturbed , the peace is being disturbed , and that our ways of telling ( form ) and what we have to tell ( content ) are simply not something that should be on an agenda of any kind . |
| 4 | The central tenet of rebirthing is that thought is creative and that our beliefs about ourselves are self-fulfilling : according to the trainers , a ‘ beautiful ’ American couple called Peter and Meg Kane , if we can think positively about ourselves and get rid of negative thoughts , we can eliminate our insecurities . |
| 5 | We know enough to know that these things are not good for our life support system or for our quality of life , and that our activities have damaging effects on our wildlife . |
| 6 | We give birth surrounded by people who reflect our own fear that we will lose control and that our animal self will burst forth noisily and messily . |
| 7 | How we survived remains a mystery , but when we eventually arrived at Backakeldy , we were told that the coastguard had been alerted and that our mad passage across the barriers had been watched in amazement by worried would-be rescuers . |
| 8 | We were pleased when the news was good and depressed when it was bad , but first things came first and I suppose we all felt we were doing our bit and that our personal lives were at that moment of secondary importance . |
| 9 | ‘ Reason tells us — when not choked by panic — that before we were born we were all dead , and that our post-mortem condition is no more frightening than the pre-natal twilight , ’ he wrote in EXIT 's Self Deliverance . |
| 10 | Hansom believes that your species , Australopithecus tanzaniensis , was our ancestor , and Luckey maintains that this belief is wrong and that our ancestor was another species of the genus Homo . |
| 11 | The other argument says that we are a higher and more socialised form of beast and that our urges are informed by something more subtle than base instinct . |
| 12 | ‘ Ca n't you tell them , ’ Sheppard whispered to Kingsley Martin during a meeting with Gregg , ‘ that we have n't time for all this intensive cultivation and that our job is to stop the next bloody war . ’ |
| 13 | It is obvious that the gender-dichotomising tendency goes deep , and that our languages are implicated in it ( males and females have different given names , different address titles , different pronouns … ) but it is perhaps less obvious that our metalanguages — the systems we use for talking about language , including grammatical categories — are implicated too . |
| 14 | Given that this was formed in the late 1980s and that our estimated time for previous changes to reach the Rockall Trough was 18–19 years , we predict that the next decade will see continued cooling and freshening of the subpolar gyre as the latest form of LSW circulates around the North Atlantic . |
| 15 | A vital additional factor is required : that those we are tied to disapprove of criminal acts ( as they are defined ) and that our own criminal acts would risk hurting them , or the diminution of their affection . |
| 16 | The business problem in that area has always been to ensure that we provide the maximum amount of service with our products , and that our production costs are as low as anybody else 's . |
| 17 | While , in the majority of states , the legislature is limited by the constitution in what it can or can not do , the traditional view here is that Parliament is subject to no such legal limitation and that our courts have no power to declare laws duly passed by Parliament invalid . |
| 18 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 19 | But we know now that that 's not true : that there are many unconscious and subconscious mental processes which we ca n't just introspect , and that our mental life is far more complicated than we ourselves are ever aware of at the time . |
| 20 | I was worried that she might shut me out and that our marriage might break up . |
| 21 | The response from the State Department came in a message dated the following day , 15 May [ KP 125 ] : " We believe that no distinction should be made between Chetniks and other dissident Yugoslav troops and that our position with respect to anti-partisan or dissident Yugoslav troops in general , in agreement with that of the British Foreign Office and in accordance with Macmillan 's recommendation , is clearly set forth in PEP TEL 424 , May 2 . |
| 22 | Young people whom we knew to be honest , stung as we were by the sufferings of our Fatherland , lived convinced that Cuba 's independence was a Yankee gift and that our denunciations of national oppression were simply ways of serving an idea that they considered to be ‘ anti-Cuban ’ ( ‘ Reflexiones ante un aniversario ’ , Hoy , 29 July 1959 , p. 1 , cited in Farber : 1983 , p. 61 ) . |
| 23 | I believe that they are extant throughout Europe and that our ancient villages did not just grow up according to the ribbon development and river crossing theory of geography , but conform to a larger , geometric pattern . |
| 24 | He could scarcely put more vividly the truth that the Spirit who has come upon Christians is the Spirit of Jesus , and that our destiny will involve the suffering and the hardship of the Servant of the Lord That is why he is determined to know nothing among these Corinthian enthusiasts but ‘ Jesus Christ , and him crucified ’ ( 1 Cor. 2:2 ) . |
| 25 | The first two weeks of treatment focus upon the acceptance of Step I " We admitted we were powerless over alcohol ( drugs , food , gambling , emotions etc ) and that our lives had become unmanageable " . |
| 26 | Will he confirm that over £130 million has been invested in the coal industry in Wales since 1985 , and that our record compares favourably with that of the Labour party which , during its last two terms in office , closed a total of 56 pits in the Principality ? |
| 27 | Elephants have bigger brains than humans but , probably with some justice , we like to think that we are cleverer than elephants and that our brains are ‘ really ’ bigger if you make allowance for the fact that we are much smaller animals . |
| 28 | Recall that the optimality theory says that an increase in k should lead to a fall in X , and that our subjects ( on the second repetition ) appeared to be doing the opposite . |
| 29 | I told him again how I had been reinforced in my belief that , whereas Germany seemed intent on war , Italy , while verbally identifying herself with the Axis , would clutch at any straw to evade participation , and that our policy should be to keep her out of it with every means in our power . |
| 30 | We welcome the security that the present orders offer to 1994-95 , but would not Harland and Wolff 's future , as well as that of other British shipyards , be better secured if we were to adopt the policy of new build for Britain 's merchant fleet and thus ensure that shipyards throughout the United Kingdom employ our people and that our seamen have jobs to go to ? |