Example sentences of "what we [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we moved the telescope off the galaxy to what we expected to be blank sky , ’ Terzian explained , ‘ we got a signal instead . |
| 2 | Says director Harry Cape : ‘ We will persist in our efforts to get what we know to be right . ’ |
| 3 | We are clearly never obliged to follow any human direction contrary to what we know to be scriptural or morally right . |
| 4 | We must see how this doubt develops and be careful to presuppose only what we know to be true and to commit ourselves consciously to the consequences of these suppositions . |
| 5 | That what we know to be true is no longer true . |
| 6 | What we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work . |
| 7 | His ‘ robust realism ’ results from the fact that he can not attain the standpoint of transcendental reflection from which he can notice what we take to be idealist tendencies in his work . |
| 8 | Do all of what we take to be causal circumstances and causes precede their effects ? |
| 9 | The bombs from the mortar are now exploding in what we believed to be German positions in the wooded area to our front . |
| 10 | What we come to is this . |
| 11 | And they rang up , and they said were sending you a list of what we expect to be available in the way of food at Christmas because we always have the same thing . |
| 12 | It is too easy to become resigned to what we feel to be inevitable . |
| 13 | Finding what we believe to be normal colon motility in children without constipation and abnormal upper gastrointestinal motility suggests that in some children CIP does not involve the colon . |
| 14 | IGNORED our plea for him to address the ‘ Southgate Semiotics Society ’ — a body ‘ concerned with discussing the most poignant examples of what we believe to be ironic , individualist/regionalist and deconstructionist English . ’ |
| 15 | We , the Opposition , do not have only those who are in public service to support what we believe to be right . |
| 16 | The sooner we know for certain what we believe to be true , the sooner we can mobilise against them . ’ |
| 17 | What we believe in is moderate verbal and tactile rights . |
| 18 | Not one that bleeding hearts would approve of , no doubt , but we , as the committee , were absolutely within our rights to sell off what we considered to be unnecessary stocks of wine in order to allocate the money to members ’ more urgent needs . ’ |
| 19 | Expectations are what we consider to be reasonable behaviour , performance or decisions under a given set of circumstances . |
| 20 | The sponsorship money will be used to upgrade facilities at the Stoop Memorial Ground because , according to chairman Roger Looker , ‘ We recognise we have a long way to go towards what we consider to be adequate facilities , particularly if we sustain our growth ’ . |
| 21 | This article only sets out what we consider to be some of the major problems which any socialist feminist analysis of housing must confront , and raises more questions than answers . |
| 22 | What we need to be certain about is that whatever society is involved in or whatever organisation is involved in balloting that it should be seen to be done properly . |
| 23 | What we need to be able to do is to get inside them to really see what is happening . |
| 24 | So what we need to be able to identify is that , al although we will gain the worst scenario ought to be that whatever we lose in terms of auto-off reports and units reports to some extent we should be gaining by the improved productivity overall . |
| 25 | As far as ho erm the H R T is erm here we go you see , this is post-natal illness this is right , we need one on that as well , but what we need to know , and what we need to be aware of , is that the discussion has to be actually put out through the members in the same sort of way as Ken and Peggy have done in the erm Midland and East Coast region and also on Working Women 's Safety , it needs to be taken on board that we are absolutely fed up , sick to death and absolutely running out of patience at having to hammer home this thing about equality . |