Example sentences of "[conj] what we [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggest that what we are really trying to do is to re-establish contact with the earth spirit through visiting sites , to emphasize pilgrimage rather than tourism . |
| 2 | I think that what we 're really looking for is a stimulating , exciting involvement of parents , of students , of teachers , of everyone who has an interest in the success of a school , and I think for some years at Cardinal Newman we have been trying to create this open society , which gives access at all levels to all the children and to their parents , and we do n't want to close the society in any shape or form . |
| 3 | We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through |
| 4 | But what we are probably going to be short of is money to improve training and to oversee examinations — people are reluctant to put money into the administrative side . |
| 5 | But what we are now faced with more clearly than in his other claims for the consequences of literacy is an argument based on socially relative judgement and ideology . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not a lover of the verbal reasoning test , ’ he goes on , ‘ But what we are now doing is abandoning one system when we have n't perfected its replacement . |
| 7 | In the long term , yes , but what we 're currently doing as part of the assessment of the Finmere application is just checking the resources that do exist in those four areas , to , to make sure that we 're still able to meet our targets . |
| 8 | We therefore became aberrant policemen simply because what we were now living was not programmed by previous organizational knowledge and habit . |