Example sentences of "what we [vb base] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are clearly never obliged to follow any human direction contrary to what we know to be scriptural or morally right . |
| 2 | We must see how this doubt develops and be careful to presuppose only what we know to be true and to commit ourselves consciously to the consequences of these suppositions . |
| 3 | The further question arises as to whether the myth is not false to what we know to be the case concerning the origin of humankind . |
| 4 | The existential proposition here merely expresses in a general form what we know to be the case in a particular instance , i.e. that the concept man does indeed have an application . |
| 5 | Says director Harry Cape : ‘ We will persist in our efforts to get what we know to be right . ’ |
| 6 | The Conservatives are offering a property poll tax in a desperate effort to avoid what we know to be their imminent electoral slaughter , as we would call it . |
| 7 | That what we know to be true is no longer true . |
| 8 | What we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work . |
| 9 | His ‘ robust realism ’ results from the fact that he can not attain the standpoint of transcendental reflection from which he can notice what we take to be idealist tendencies in his work . |
| 10 | That actions are interpretations of movements and speeches with respect to what we take to be the intention of the actor in making them . |
| 11 | Compare what we take to be the true causal circumstance for last night , which we may label the solar conditions . |
| 12 | Do all of what we take to be causal circumstances and causes precede their effects ? |
| 13 | What gives this paper its particular importance in a philosophical sense is that it implicitly raises questions about the nature of knowledge in social work — or what we take to be knowledge about social work . |
| 14 | So we respond to what we perceive to be the case rather than what is the case . |
| 15 | If we think of natural and explicit answers to the question of what caused something , what we come to are items like the weight of a thing , or its colour , hardness , shape , nearness , transparency , weakness , speed , pitch , temperature , chemical constitution , positive charge , protein content , molecular structure , or spin . |
| 16 | What we come to is this . |
| 17 | The sacrilege lies in the desire on the part of the murderer to mutilate what we understand to be in some sense the image of God . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And they rang up , and they said were sending you a list of what we expect to be available in the way of food at Christmas because we always have the same thing . |
| 20 | It is too easy to become resigned to what we feel to be inevitable . |
| 21 | We 've also seen it happening , to an extent in properties in Bishopsfield as well erm I really think we need to get to grips with what we seem to be doing , which de-counting people prematurely early er , in response to , to housing developments which we are planning to undertake in in partnership with other people and leaving ourselves open to this and not |
| 22 | We seldom read in the tabloid press local police force fails er we may frequently read in the local press in the tabloid press rather , that the Home Secretary has failed and yet what we seem to be saying is that we believe that all the responsibility should be local , all that responsibility , all the blame when things go wrong should go to the Home Secretary . |
| 23 | What we seem , what we seem to be doing is increase the provision |
| 24 | er , I tell you what we seem to be having difficulties with |
| 25 | Naturally , this did not please Laura who thought the designer status was a disadvantage ‘ because people are n't so likely to think of us as a neighbourhood store ; that 's what we want to be . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it is theoretically unsound to define what we want to be a synchronous horizon at a level that we suspect to be diachronous . |
| 27 | Er I mean , what we want to be getting them to think about is the complete |
| 28 | Mr Hurd replied : ‘ We have worked out what we believe to be the most sensible balance between our desire for good race relations and harmony in our cities … and our very strong feeling that we have a continuing … duty of responsibility to people in Hong Kong . ’ |
| 29 | IGNORED our plea for him to address the ‘ Southgate Semiotics Society ’ — a body ‘ concerned with discussing the most poignant examples of what we believe to be ironic , individualist/regionalist and deconstructionist English . ’ |
| 30 | Counselling empathy requires constant testing because we can never be certain that what we believe to be the feelings and attitudes of the counsellees are accurate . |