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 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 .
4 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 .
5 We trust other people 's judgements more than our own for the simple reason that we know what our judgements are based upon .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Unless we understand how the program works , the statement gives us a false impression that we understand something when we do not .
9 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 . ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 It is I think with great regret that we receive her resignation er but understand it .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 My toes went numb , and at the primary school that we attended I was n't allowed to wear long trousers at my age .
16 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 .
17 ‘ The usual warning that we strain our brains and memorise the numbers of our gowns .
18 And who knows what may come of Labour 's long-overdue admission that we need someone in the cabinet specifically to fight our corner ?
19 So understood , Quine is unsympathetic to the Peircean doctrine that we hold our scientific ‘ opinions ’ at arm 's length : at least some of our scientific beliefs must be fully accepted .
20 chasing back to the local paper to the approximate time that we think they died see if they report enough about them .
21 It was in Geo-related work that we experienced our greatest problems during the year , leading to the closure of our Scottish and Billingham offices , and the reduction of Warrington from two offices to one .
22 Probably we felt they were the sort of client that we wanted or that there was already er a connection that we had er or there was a particular service that we thought we could offer and penetrate them in that way .
23 On the contrary , it 's part of our ever-changing uniqueness that we have our own opinions and beliefs , that we prefer certain sports , hobbies and interests , that we enjoy the company of some people and not others , that we like certain poets , novelists and playwrights and loathe others — and that is fine .
24 We we just have this weird notation that we write it like this and we say it like that cos squared Z what we mean
25 You might then wonder what the cutting of the hair had to do with it — well , one of the features of auto-immune diseases is that they cluster within individuals and sometimes within an individual 's family , and the reasons for that are that the immune responses that we have we inherit with our genes .
26 After the official closure it was with mixed emotions that we took our leave of Wadeville .
27 It also brings Albert Finney back to the London stage in a commanding comic performance that serves as a potent reminder that we see him far too rarely these days .
28 This is because this was the dead stock that we sent him .
29 ‘ Some lead such active lives that we found it difficult to arrange a time for interview , while others are so isolated and lonely that our interviewers felt guilty about terminating the interview and leaving them to themselves . ’
30 That 's it M A L E so it 's perhaps not a bad idea that we spell it differently cos you can tell which one you 're talking about then .
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