Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] that [pron] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | Which probably had something to do with the way that what we sold would reappear slightly redone in Acme six months later . |
| 9 | Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings . |
| 10 | The ‘ adaptive ’ function is based on the proposition that what we call crime today includes forms of behaviour that will be crucially necessary to future society — Durkheim 's ( 1938 ) examples , are the ideas of Socrates and liberal philosophy which were once criminalised but which he sees as vital for contemporary society . |
| 11 | In view of that , we can recognize the possibility that as rational beings we fall under a system of law which we have somehow ourselves brought into being , and that it is our task while appearing to exist in the sensory world to live according to that law , in spite of the fact that what we appear to be is simply animals driven by sensory desire . |
| 12 | Well okay so so you 're going to you 're going to erm emphasize the er the fact that what we are supplying is a noise tested |
| 13 | Er the only reason for the fact that we we did n't have a tragedy is that the population in the in those areas is very sparse . |
| 14 | It 's an enormous problem for us , unfortunately , by by virtue of the fact that we we do most of our claims over the telephone . |
| 15 | You 've got the fact that you we 're paying Dennis but we do n't employ Dennis you know he 's he 's so there there 's the extra cost there what you would n't have anywhere else . |
| 16 | Erm so that 's a a whole of responses to this , I think we need to be far more clear in our opposition to this , I think it 's a very dangerous situation it 's one that 's happening across the country , we 're not the only sufferers and I think consortia have been very dangerous things from the beginning , and are leading inextricably to the merger that we we put before us as a proposal tonight , and I think we really should be quite strenuous in our position to it . |
| 17 | There is also evidence in favour of the view that what we might think of as pragmatic factors influence language comprehension . |
| 18 | I gave the impression that what we are measuring is copying errors . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is no wonder that what we see becomes identified with , and spoken of as if it were the same as , what we touch . |
| 21 | There 's no guarantee that what we 're hunting is going to follow the rules . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |