Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that we [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are difficulties in claiming that ahi sā is the right way in all circumstances and that the way of violence can never lead to Truth , there are similar difficulties in assuming that no violation of moral duty is involved in the practice of satyāgraha , or that it is only through the practice of satyāgraha that we show ourselves to be informed by the spirit of Truth and non-violence . |
| 2 | It is to the elaboration of rules that we direct our attention in the next chapter . |
| 3 | Because it is subject to the conditions of carriage that we accept their business and therefore we have to provide them with written information . |
| 4 | Lt John Garrett , commanding officer of the Walton on the Naze Sea Cadet unit , said : ‘ The yacht Rebel has always provided an excellent training opportunity for Walton cadets and we too share the sadness and sense of loss that we know our friends and colleagues will be feeling . ’ |
| 5 | In fact , he says , they are rule governed and functional : ‘ In informal conversation they have a proper role , as they are one of the main means language has of expressing the various alterations in the force and direction of argument that we find ourselves using ’ ( Crystal , 1976 , p. 24 ) . |
| 6 | It is with a feeling of sadness that we consider it necessary to express our reservations about Winnie Mandela 's judgement in relation to the Mandela Football Club . |
| 7 | They played I mean all sorts of games that we played they do n't play today . |
| 8 | Well I understand that you get fifteen , it 's just that I 've got a lot of customer where I got business that is depending on the kind of insurance that we give them , based on what our |
| 9 | We 've got to sort of create the world , and so forth , and sort of run it , and so on , and , well , try to make some kind of , of , of sort of viable proposition of it , and all the rest of it , and it just seems to me that we can get better results if we treat the , if we treat the sort of , well , for want of a better word , the local inhabitants with a certain amount of , of , of respect , and , and , and trust , and and , if we help them , and and guide them , to the point where they can become sort of independent and sort of self-governing , within the framework of the free , well , of the free , sort of , well , of the , yes , free kind of system that we enjoy ourselves . ’ |
| 10 | There 's some sort of standard that we think we ought to have in order to do this thing right and we 're we 're below everybody else , yes . |
| 11 | Some ten years and several tasteful additions later , the present hotel was launched and it is with pleasure that we include it in our programme . |
| 12 | So do French politicians : ‘ it is through Europe that we affirm our presence in space and across the world ’ , declared President Mitterrand at the Le Bourget aerospace show in June 1987 . |
| 13 | Thus the philosophical Greeks and the industrious Chinese will do as instances of non-restriction only on condition that we allow ourselves a strangely overgeneralized view of the Greeks and the Chinese . |
| 14 | Sammy was presently delivering one of our Nautor Swans to its Massachusetts owner ; many of the charter yachts were privately owned and only leased into Cutwater 's care on condition that we delivered them back to their owners for the northern summer . |
| 15 | If I 'd suggested to Manuela that we murder someone , she would no doubt have gone along with it as she went along with everything else I suggested . |
| 16 | It was only half way back to Darlington that we realised we never had learned why Bobby Orton walked off against Burnhope . |
| 17 | What I would like to try and get personnel 's agreement to , if a if at all possible , is that we do n't do this nonsense of having to close list our staff to jobs that we know we 're gon na put them into . |
| 18 | Although it is to Christianity that we owe our modern temporal orientation , it is to the Romans that we are mainly indebted for the form of our calendar and conventions of time recording . |
| 19 | And it was n't until we started analysing for zinc that we realized what the problem was . |
| 20 | Yet it is through photosynthesis that we have our principal forms of stored energy-fossil fuels and biomass ( see below ) . |