Example sentences of "we [verb] [conj] the [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notes We regret that the tour is not entirely suitable for people in wheelchairs . |
| 2 | Er we trust if the post is doubled in the way it has frequently been in recent years and indeed was in my case , the Chancellor of the Duchy in brackets also as the Chairman of the Conservative Party to maintain the dignitary of the magistracy to make sure that there is a firm balance amongst magistrates who are appointed . |
| 3 | Nor should we think that the situation is better at secondary level . |
| 4 | We suggest that the issue is not that ‘ a considerable possibility of overtreatment ’ exists but that potentially damaging and ineffective treatment may be undertaken outside the confines of a randomised controlled trial . |
| 5 | We suggest that the eviction is an unsubstantiated , politically motivated , empire building exercise of no benefit to the village . |
| 6 | The NCT sessions encouraged everyone to ask ‘ daft ’ questions — the sort that do not seem daft if you do not know the answers — like how do I make up a nappy , how many sterilising tablets do I use for the bottles and what should we buy before the baby is born ? |
| 7 | Addresses have been drawn by statistically random methods and , as you will appreciate , the success of the research depends upon our obtaining the highest possible response rate as only then can we ensure that the sample is truly representative . |
| 8 | Subsequently The Sports Council have offered a very generous grant providing we appoint a National Development Officer ( which has already been done ) and that we show that the Society is growing — not only by increased numbers of participants but particularly in Membership . |
| 9 | We show that the argument is much more complex , emphasising that the overall level of employment in an economy is influenced by a number of factors . |
| 10 | If we imagine that the sheepdog is treating the shepherd as a fellow hunter , then circling and retrieving stray sheep both manifestly resemble the ancestral canine hunting behaviour . |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , we accept that the truth-value is not an integral part of the propositional content , then of course the predicate " true " and " false " will not be redundant . |
| 12 | Or rather , the distinctions between the repressed and the excluded , the subjective and the social , break down , especially when we recall that the other is often constructed via , or in terms of , the proximate . |
| 13 | We recall that the narrator is a young man . |
| 14 | Once we appreciate that the cause is the complexity — and the unpredictability — of human beings , and the fact that humans are not as ‘ tidy ’ as elementary animals or simple mechanisms , then we should be grateful and go about our task with renewed enthusiasm . |
| 15 | We remember that the church is not a building , but a family , a body of redeemed men and women who follow Jesus . |
| 16 | We maintain that the pension is not a charity or a benefit , but is our right as something we pay contributions for all our working lives . |
| 17 | It is actually easier to do the calculation if instead of individual turns we assume that the current is continuously distributed on the surface of the cylinder , and work in terms of |
| 18 | Janet Kear writes — in Wildfowl World , No 84 — ‘ We assume that the peregrine is ‘ programmed ’ not to hunt near its nest ( if it did it might feed on its own young ) and that this immunity extends to the goose and its goslings . ’ |
| 19 | We assume that the node is in the second form , so its threshold is 0 . |
| 20 | We assume that the store is randomly accessible ; that is , the time taken to access a store location in order to store or retrieve information is constant and ( in particular ) is independent of the particular location being accessed and of the location previously accessed . |
| 21 | We discovered that the temple is surrounded by durian trees , the fruit of which ripens and ferments through June and July . |
| 22 | We know that the School is not large enough to become a comprehensive unit itself , and even if it were large enough , we would not wish to change its character completely in that way . |
| 23 | ‘ We know that the semi-final is important , and every one of us wants to win it for the manager , but we have got to approach every game in the same way . |
| 24 | We therefore add a supplement so that we know that the horse is definitely receiving vital micro nutrients ( these are nutrients required in very small quantities ) . |
| 25 | Secondly , there is ‘ explanatory understanding ’ ( erklärendes Verstehen ) , by which we know that the woodsman is earning a living or the marksman engaged in a vendetta . |
| 26 | A very neat bit of professional sleight of speech , suggesting equivalence in choice and control , even though they and we know that the reality is very different . |
| 27 | When the reasons for the disappointing response are explored , we find that the emphasis is placed on the unique social and cultural values of Japanese society . |
| 28 | If we find that the concordance is higher for Is than Ns , there could be a genetic component . |
| 29 | Thus we find that the structure is a parallel-stranded tetraplex . |
| 30 | And here we find that the term is widely rather than narrowly defined to include an offence which carries a sentence of three years or more on first conviction ; or involves the use of violence ; or results in substantial financial gain ; or involves conduct by a large number of people in pursuit of a common purpose . |