Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [subord] we [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never asserts , however , that even if we accepted that animals have rights , we could never justify infringing them . |
| 2 | The first is that even if we concluded that a representative democracy was the best that could be achieved under modern circumstances , the idea or principle of representation is far from being fully or effectively embodied in existing political arrangements . |
| 3 | A decision which has never had any legal effect can not be deprived of legal effect , and so when we say that certiorari quashes a decision which the decision-maker had no jurisdiction to make , what we really mean is that the order formally declares that from the moment it was purportedly made ( ‘ ab initio ’ ) the decision had no effect in law . |
| 4 | We have given it up , partly because we can not afford all the exercise tests and partly because we believe that once you know the patient has got ischaemic heart disease , which he has by definition if he has had an infarct , that the exercise test on a beta blocker is as useful prognostically . |
| 5 | It is , however , easy to become anxious about applying the Technique in our day-to-day lives , even though we may have been shown what to do and even though we know that our ordinary sensory perception may be faulty . |
| 6 | Time and again when we think that we have nailed the political , military , and economic aspects of huge missionary undertakings , another point of view makes itself apparent , sometimes quite unexpectedly , in the sources . |
| 7 | We are concerned for many reasons about the health of staff , but particularly when we know that illness and disease can be greatly lessened when smoking is reduced or stopped altogether . |
| 8 | But even if we assume that it is sound at an abstract philosophical level , it would be extremely dubious to assert that this theory can justify our present practices of punishment or anything like them . |
| 9 | But even if we discover that vineyards vanished from south east England at a time when the climate was getting colder , we still do not know for sure why they disappeared . |
| 10 | But even if we accept that there is a significant difference between the ‘ legal ’ and ‘ political ’ processes in the way in which decisions are reached , they would both still come firmly within the definition of power we adopted in part I , that is the ability to get others to do what you want them to , assuming this is different from what they would have done anyway , with the use or threat of sanctions if necessary . |
| 11 | But even if we allow that this can be a beneficial experience , we must question the wisdom of seeing it as the only valid way in which reading can be learned . |
| 12 | Speaking of the activities of elementary particle physicists , he writes that whereas the activity appears essential as long as we believe in the independent existence of fundamental laws that we can still hope to know better , it loses practically its whole motivation as soon as we believe that the sole objective of the scientists is to make their impressions mutually consistent . |
| 13 | A further possible source of latent inhibition emerges as soon as we accept that any stimulus can be construed as consisting of a set of elements . |