Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that we [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 What am I saying as we sit here talking about this rather strange difficulty that we find ourselves in ?
2 I can only take it that he was n't that concerned , that perhaps the Chief Constable does n't share Mr 's concerns , and is perhaps happy that he has received the generous funding that we state he has .
3 And I 'll go through some strengths that we feel they have and the monopoly obviously is one of the er major strengths .
4 One thing said in support of the idea that we take effects to be probable events , and , more particularly , said against the analysis expounded in this chapter that we take them to be necessitated events , is relevant enough , although likely to be disdained by the high-minded .
5 All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club .
6 It was therefore with some pride that we showed our visitors just how much JMSA had progressed since the company first opened all those years before .
7 So that we had a few tiles that we knew what their pattern and date was .
8 So , time and time again , when you actually look at it , when you actually look at this position that we find ourselves in , there is n't an easy receipt to be made that can be used that actually provided what the business is about .
9 I mean , it 's for Christmas this year that we want it .
10 No one in the shipping office must be given the slightest idea that we suspect anything out of the ordinary at all . "
11 These categories of luck threaten the very notion of moral responsibility in that if the precondition of control is consistently applied we would be disbarred from making the wide range of moral judgments that we find it entirely natural to make .
12 I think our strategy should be that we pare our prices down , to the absolute minimum that we think we can do the work for , take a little bit more off that and hope to get some money back on variations .
13 We trust other people 's judgements more than our own for the simple reason that we know what our judgements are based upon .
14 Even if it is true that policemen require special protection in the course of their duties because of the proactive roles that we expect them to undertake , it does not follow that the person who assaults them without justification should be marked as having committed what is , in reality , an aggravated form of assault .
15 He wrote : ‘ But it is when we examine the zoology of these countries that we find what we most require — evidence of a very striking character that these great islands must once have formed a part of the continent , and could only have been separated at a very recent geological epoch .
16 It is precisely because our Lord suffered these things that we recognise him as not only God but human , like us .
17 Their approach is undermined by their mistaken belief that we know what experiential words ( 'pain' , ‘ looks red ’ ) mean by direct acquaintance with the things they stand for .
18 successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it
19 Unless we understand how the program works , the statement gives us a false impression that we understand something when we do not .
20 As you can see , sir , this lady is quite a redoubtable lady and it was with great difficulty that we persuaded her to await the outcome of this enquiry before insisting on seeing you personally , sir . ’
21 But dozens of representatives shouted ‘ Yes ’ when he recalled the European election campaign and asked them : ‘ Can any of us say in all honesty that we did everything we could ? ’
22 After James II 's death , and during the reign of Anne , Jacobites usually claimed that James Francis Stuart was the rightful heir to the throne , who should succeed his sister : it was not until after the Hanoverian succession that we find him being hailed as James III .
23 I mean , I had Tony to go through and find key words that we knew we were going to need , you know , simple words like the , of , with , a , that sort of thing , that we knew that okay , we would n't use immediately , but we 'd look , ah there that goes there , and use it straight away .
24 It is I think with great regret that we receive her resignation er but understand it .
25 The significant point however is that the speaker is evoking his view of the possibility of the daring , and it is only by logical implication that we infer his opinion of its realization .
26 Coleridge recognises the power and excitement of this world , but it is in the second stanza , when he delves into the folds of this metaphorical brain that we see him striving to express the very essence of creativity .
27 My toes went numb , and at the primary school that we attended I was n't allowed to wear long trousers at my age .
28 But I still got that feeling that we lost something .
29 When we launched our boat in Rangkul for the first time and motored towards the islands where the birds were said to nest , it was with considerable relief that we saw there were indeed geese , and they were on eggs .
30 ‘ The usual warning that we strain our brains and memorise the numbers of our gowns .
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