Example sentences of "[to-vb] that we [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is mentioned to indicate that we stand at the start of communication changes and must prepare to play our part imaginatively in the future and not just retrospectively . |
| 2 | Sometimes he 's so determined he 's not going to go that we have to forcibly put him out of the door and get him into the car and get him there somehow . |
| 3 | FMEs prepared to advise defence lawyers seem to be in growing demand , and that is borne out by the experience within our group , whose members go out of their way to stress that we work as independent consultants . |
| 4 | But to do that we need to be sure that the policy is appropriate , does reflect national policy . |
| 5 | When patients register with the clinic a copy of their record is flagged by the registrar to ensure that we know of deaths and their certified cause . |
| 6 | And to ensure that we act as a group and not just a collection of separate offices . |
| 7 | He may very soon be trying to use that enormous power endowed by evolution to ensure parental acceptance of responsibility , to ensure that we pander to his every whim — if we let him , probably by screaming and indulging in ‘ tantrums ’ . |
| 8 | I do n't think there 's any need for me to spell out any more at this point what that may mean but the responsibility in as churches to ensure that we care for the under eights . |
| 9 | I want to ensure that we build on the success of the first six months of NHS reforms so that no one will want to go anywhere but to his or her most immediately available hospital to receive NHS treatment . |
| 10 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 11 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 12 | The title of Nigel Osborne 's serenade , Albanian Nights , while moist obviously referring to the disguises assumed by Ferrando and Guglielmo while testing their fiancées ' fidelity in Così fan tutte , is also a metaphorical allusion to our own relationship to the music of the past : ‘ We 've got to recognize that we come into Mozart 's world like characters in disguise : we 've all flown in airplanes , driven fast cars , eaten junk food — things he could n't even have imagined . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't wait to see shear waters again , ’ I said brightly to the Warden when he came to check that we understood about Calor gas , to remind us to boil the drinking water and to tell us the exact procedure of what to do if we fell down a cliff . |
| 14 | " I do n't want you to think that we eat like this every night , " said the sultan with a smile ; indeed , we had seen him earlier in the day wearing well-cut Western clothes . |
| 15 | Have you ever wondered how we prepare all the food for the mouth-watering recipe photography in BBC Good Food Many people seem to think that we cheat by photographing mashed potato instead of ice-cream , and that we paint a chicken or make cotton wool pies . |
| 16 | Yeah , er well put it under any other business Erm nothing more about that one other to say that we seem to be on course for finishing er about the zero mark which is what we 're targetting . |
| 17 | Leaving such miscommunications aside , though , it is still true to say that we search for confirmation , and I have found myself reluctant to make the telephone call or write the letter of sympathy in case I have heard it wrongly or been given the wrong information . |
| 18 | My hon. Friend is right to say that we live in an increasingly competitive environment and that much in the social action programme would damage that competitiveness within the European Community — to the interests of the Japanese , the United States and our other competitors . |
| 19 | The argument from error can be used to show that we know of cases where others have successfully concealed their states of mind , or pretended to be in a state of mind other than their own ( these possibilities are not really distinct ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I wanted to show that we cared about their predicament and wished to conduct a genial and mutually satisfying transaction , and I thought the head of the company bothering to put in an appearance might do that . ’ |