Example sentences of "[verb] [that] we [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Suzanne , you say that we were talking about this in our college . |
| 2 | We should stress that we are talking of constructional applicability . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth , East ( Mr. Atkinson ) made an eloquent speech about compulsory competitive tendering ; and I was heartened by the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester ( Mr. Nelson ) also realised that we were talking not about compulsory contracting out but about compulsory competitive tendering , which means that there is an opportunity for the in-house team to make a bid . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , heightened expectations of the imminent release of Nelson Mandela had been fuelled by remarks on Jan. 8 by his wife Winnie Mandela , who said after a three-hour visit to his prison bungalow that " I do n't think that we are talking about months any longer " . |
| 5 | Thinking about our coastline , seeing that we 're talking about it a bit , what about our white cliffs all along the coast ? |
| 6 | I would answer that we are talking about a change of use but I have to add the reminder that the largest area inside the city is currently British Rail land . |
| 7 | We have , in short , to keep our feet on the ground , to get our facts right , and to remember that we are talking about the real world . |
| 8 | It is important to remember that we are talking about averages ; families of all sizes can be found in all social classes , but in different proportions . |
| 9 | The table below will help you to identify the source of those elements ( but do remember that we are talking about natural , as opposed to processed , foods ) . |
| 10 | You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year . |
| 11 | It means , by contrast , that when we talk of the technological imperative and resource allocation , we must realize that we are talking about the political process , and understand what this involves . |
| 12 | ‘ But it 's not Kinnock ; it 's Mr Gorbachev ; the world has come on to our ground and I find that a source of strength , because at least we know that we 're talking about the capitalist system . ’ |
| 13 | Oh you know that we were talking about |
| 14 | This is why there is equal acceptability in the sentences of ( 50 ) and ( 51 ) , despite the fact that there was a difference of grammatical status between ( 48 ) and ( 49 ) : ( 50 ) a possible result would be the collapse of the whole company such a result is possible ( 51 ) his occasional visits annoyed my brother his visits were only occasional Similarly , ( 52 ) and ( 53 ) are both admissible , but only provided that we are talking about the age of the institution and the accuracy of the narrative , respectively : ( 52 ) Charlie 's school is old ( 53 ) my story is surprising but true |
| 15 | We may recognize their mannerisms in ourselves or find that we are talking to our children in just the tones that they talked to us . |
| 16 | Yes , Data Packet Networks , I mean it just means that we 're talking as if we 're one site and not three . |
| 17 | I think that we 're talking about different spheres of television , and within academia , of course , we tend to separate out these spheres . |
| 18 | I 'm sorry to say but I think that we 're talking about this education day at the beginning of October and I mean god knows we 've known this is coming for , it 's almost as if we 've got to the brink of , you know like lemmings just about to throw ourselves off the cliff and we do n't know why we 're going to do it . |
| 19 | It 's at that point that many women start trying to get back into the labour market and at that point it is extremely difficult , so I think that we 're talking about a number of things . |
| 20 | And I have to say that we 're talking about a limited number of people , that even if you deter half a dozen young fire setters in a year , you 'd probably made a fairly substantial impact in Shropshire . |
| 21 | The C E C when they 're talking about motions sometimes say that they accept them with the qualification and I 'd like to say to Congress this morning will you accept a qualification from the branch moving this to say that we are talking about groups of members and their needs not individuals ? |