Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] we [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There was a feeling of disappointment that we were held to a draw in Bruges and the atmosphere in the dressing room at the Olympiastadion only lifted after we heard that Marseille had suffered the same result against CSKA , ’ said McCall .
2 As George Graham put it : ‘ The day has come when we see that the country has gone to the dogs .
3 Because these will be resent as we know that have individual needs in individual ways and they often rub off one against the other if they live in closeness as we all do .
4 This apparent contradiction is only resolved when we realize that man in his ( sic ) present state is sub-human — ie less than God intended and created .
5 Both points about unfairness are revealed once we note that in the election of 1983 the Conservatives secured one Commons seat for every 33 000 votes ; Labour one for every 40 000 ; and the Liberals and Social Democrats one for every 340 000 .
6 We so much take these matters for granted that we forget that these abilities are constitutive of what we mean by ‘ higher education ’ .
7 We have said that we recognise that high energy prices may have to play a part in a strategy for reducing carbon dioxide emissions .
8 John Feaver , LTA Director of Events and Tournaments , said , ‘ Our experiences last year convinced us that something had to be done and we hope that this system will really help the enthusiastic spectator . ’
9 So as a small token of appreciation , I just have two books or two copies of the same book which I would like to hand to your president and to your general secretary as a token of appreciation and it 's the authorized biography of Nelson Mandela of whom we are all very proud , considering what he has suffered through and what he has done and we hope that this little token will be a kind of memento for all your support but by doing this I 'm not saying that your support is over because the struggle continues .
10 To move from ‘ art ’ to ‘ craft ’ is rather plainly a further contraction , or diminution : and it will be radically misunderstood unless we remember that for Pound the level of craftsmanship ( not just in letters , but in supposedly humbler trades also ) is a register , a thermometer-reading , of the good or ill health of a period or of a society .
11 This pattern of latencies can be explained if we assume that when a subordinate clause appears before its main clause syntactic information about the subordinate clause needs to be retained until the main clause has been heard .
12 That 's why I say to you , you say oh we 've got this we 've got that we want that we want this but er I tell you two thousand nineteen and you 're at nineteen ninety two .
13 There appeared to be some problem with our papers regarding the tonnage we were hauling until a 20DM note was produced and we insisted that we did not require a receipt .
14 As above , no comparative data were given but we found that cuckoos fledged more chicks both per nest and per egg laid at Santa Fe than at Guadix ( Table 1 ) .
15 Parts are still at this time being occupied but it is almost certain before long that the whole of the building will be condemned and we hope that this old building will be preserved and not allowed to fall into decay .
16 In the same fashion , Kant maintained , the nature of our knowledge can not be understood if we assume that it is simply fed into us from outside ourselves , and that we are merely passive recipients of information from the world around us .
17 As with the P.A.F. your support has been much appreciated and we hope that by keeping the fees the same you will do the same next year .
18 As with the P.A.F. your support has been much appreciated and we hope that by keeping the fees the same you will do the same next year .
19 Anyone who wants to change anything will have to somehow change it without altering the figures because they 're settled and we know that if we ever go back to No. 10 or the Cabinet we 'll always get the backing of the Prime Minister and the appellant will always be overturned . ’
20 may be appreciated when we reflect that if our rulers in the nineteenth century were educated at Eton , our rulers of the twentieth century are being educated in the elementary schools .
21 ‘ Two nail-biting months of interviews and waiting followed until we heard that we had got it — we were absolutely thrilled . ’
22 We have equality in the number of disabled people involved and we believe that all should be equal members , but there is no room for complacency ; the barriers are still in place .
23 We have demonstrated once again that technical difficulties can be overcome and we believe that this proves that PFR should have been allowed to continue operations beyond 31st March , 1994 ’ .
24 Friends say the flaxen-haired singer is thinking about recording the B 52 's Rock Lobster hit but we reckon that he 's just a shellfish kind of a guy
25 These expectations are fulfilled when we find that the chief things for which Moore claims great intrinsic value are personal friendship and the appreciation of beautiful objects .
26 I thought I would mention this at the outset because so many details , which would normally be left until we reach that particular stage , will be discussed with earlier parts of the legislation .
27 For instance , much of the fear about scientists playing God and creating children can be dispelled if we consider that in the process of in vitro fertilization , the scientist allows the sperm to meet the egg in the laboratory instead of the Fallopian tube , which is blocked .
28 Details are widely advertised and we hope that new members of the University will discover something of interest and visit the Chaplaincy Centre .
29 From this period until the Bishopric of Gilbert de Glanville the buildings at Hailing were neglected and we know that Glanville carried out a great deal of restoration work here .
30 Just how lucky we were was further highlighted when we learnt that Ricci 's normal teaching rates are £250 for 1 hour .
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