Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | So my beliefs constitute an extremely important constraint on my behaviour and , bearing in mind that what we believe to be right or wrong is , to a large extent , learnt behaviour , that we do not inherit such beliefs , it is obvious that the source of these beliefs has to be seen as a major constraint on , and determinant of , our behaviour . |
| 2 | Gerald Graff , in Professing Literature , is sympathetic to Scholes 's approach , quoting him to the effect that what we call skill in reading involves ‘ a knowledge of the codes that were operative in the composition of any given text and the historical situation in which it was composed . ’ |
| 3 | The nearest we can get to a guarantee of success in our moral choices is the cogency of the arguments that we bring to bear in their support coupled with the recognition that what we are almost invariably doing , as MacIver points out and thinkers like Sartre have laboured to establish , is continually deciding between possible alternatives . |
| 4 | For while an objective attitude carries with it a certain distance , and a recognition that what we think of as natural responses such as gratitude or resentment are out of place , reactive attitudes confirm our beliefs about the expectations people have of one another in society . |
| 5 | I think really I can only repeat the County Council 's position here chairman that we we do have sympathy with er the District Council 's position and the particular problems that the District Council have to face . |
| 6 | It is no wonder that what we see becomes identified with , and spoken of as if it were the same as , what we touch . |
| 7 | We have tried to make it clear in the law that what we are establishing is a parallel procedure and not an exclusive procedure , so that the other law as it existed , whatever it is , still does exist today , but that here is a prescribed procedure which terminally ill patients may choose to use should they wish to do so . |
| 8 | Erm I think I 'd support the first point that we we 're obviously er all in favour well the County Council is certainly in favour of flexibility in terms of addressing the post two thousand er six scenario . |
| 9 | We in com in coming to a view on the principle of an orbital system , looked at erm those issues in very general terms and clearly erm we 'll will through the process of either a planning application or the local plan and i would say at this point that we we already have er a member commitment to include the preferred option of the County Council within the local plan as we move forward to our consultation draft next year , we would obviously look more rigorously at the the pros and cons of er particular road schemes . |
| 10 | Not merely is the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal hardly the most suitable tribunal to determine complex questions of civil law — the pressures on the court 's time aside — but the very fact that this is the Criminal Division carries with it the consequence that whatever we decide can not be the subject of appeal : see section 33 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 . |
| 11 | I remember that one of us , I can not recall which , made the cynical remark that what we really wanted was a similar type of aircraft to the one that had crashed , in which the auto-pilot could be connected up with the flight recorder — then we investigators could just sit and watch the accident happen all over again . |
| 12 | There 's no guarantee that what we 're hunting is going to follow the rules . ’ |
| 13 | We should build up the Western European Union as the defence pillar of the European union , but the treaty embodies the view set out in the Anglo-Italian proposal two months ago , and endorsed at last month 's summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that whatever we do at European level must be compatible with NATO . |
| 14 | I I think the C P R E's general comments and and you 'll see from our our evidence that we we 've deliberately not entered into the the the debate that you you 've heard to date this morning . |
| 15 | The lady had cordially assured me at the outset that I was free " to party with anybody I liked the look of " ( this , except for the half-ounce bikini she wore , being her only hint that what we were sitting in was n't a beauty parlour or seminar room but actually a brothel . |
| 16 | If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients . |
| 17 | But at times it 's been hard to ignore that sinking feeling that what we 've been witnessing is another case of gradual rock'n'roll suicide , that what we 're about to experience is the possible self-destruction of not just one individual but a whole band . |
| 18 | But er there there were there were some pe our , our , on the bench that we we had a really , cross section on the bench that I worked on , there were very , women , one woman she 'd never been to work in her life . |
| 19 | We had shared our lives and ministered with others in the faith sharing team and there was a sense that whatever we were in , we were in it together . |
| 20 | ‘ Ever and again comes the thought that what we see of a sign is only the outside of something within , in which the real operations of sense and meaning go on ’ ( 140 ) . |
| 21 | I I I sir that we we may be able to erm argue that here today it may be very difficult once it 's established , especially in the public mind that that that there is that there E two land I fear would be not only interpreted unless there 's some justification for me saying this because that 's what it says in the in the in the Harrogate Rural Areas Plan . |
| 22 | Can I just say on this sir that we we see policy I five as our interp sorry I twelve , it 's our interpretation that it 's really a recognition that office development is appropriate in or adjacent to er town centres and that we wo n't be seeking to er identify offices in or adjacent to town centres and take that element off the I five provision . |
| 23 | It certainly is erotic , but is perhaps better described , following Eve Sedgwick , as homosocial desire , if only , in the first instance , to avoid the easy but questionable assumption that what we witness here is the irruption of repressed homosexual desire as conceived by Freud . |
| 24 | Erm , it would be unsafe , I think , to work on an assumption that what we 're going to er one post becoming available through natural wastage per year , and even that erm , highish I think . |
| 25 | Erm given that that is the case , what is , what is the next thing that we we need to know ? |
| 26 | The phrase does not indicate that Brahman does not exist , or that we know nothing about Brahman , but that we know that Brahman is so far beyond our understanding that anything we say will be misleading and therefore we must content ourselves with saying neti-neti . |
| 27 | Out of interest madam chairman , does that mean we 've paid the total amount that we we said that we would contribute ? |
| 28 | ‘ John Dyson , ’ the chairman was saying , ‘ do you , as a journalist , agree with the suggestion that what we need is for the press to take a firm moral lead and play down all news to do with race relations ? ’ |
| 29 | Which probably had something to do with the way that what we sold would reappear slightly redone in Acme six months later . |
| 30 | ‘ Soul ’ is established as a category containing phenomena as disparate as Professor Paul Davies ' conviction that what we know of the universe points to a grand design , Miriam Rothschild 's delight in the beauty of her biological subject matter , and Oliver Sacks ' realisation that his patients ' brains do not resemble computers . |