Example sentences of "we [verb] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We regret that no tickets may be changed or money refunded . |
| 2 | Notes We regret that the tour is not entirely suitable for people in wheelchairs . |
| 3 | As it is , we regret that the printers , when they had the opportunity , did not make an end of the half-paid female labour and so established the principle for both sexes of " Equal work , equal pay " . |
| 4 | ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely . |
| 5 | We agreed that a hospital was very much like a ship , and being under fire had made her like a man of war . |
| 6 | In the end , EGBT were willing to put in more money for a more environmentally-friendly mode of working , and we agreed that the planings would be off-loaded at the end of the path , and then ferried in on dumper trucks . |
| 7 | Because the money did n't matter now , and our games were more evenly and bitterly fought , and we agreed that the rivalry should n't — and indeed could n't — get any tenser . |
| 8 | We agreed that the man or woman does not exist who had never made a mistake , however foolish . |
| 9 | We agreed that the accusation was obviously nonsense , but I warned him that rape , like child abuse , was a powerfully charged topic at present in England . |
| 10 | Because you know money-wise because we were not content to sit back and see er schemes being introduced that , which were going to act as a deterrent to er our members er being able to earn wages er on incentives and so therefore erm what happened was that we agreed that the consultants er head personnel manager would come down and talk to each group of people who were being put on to the incentive scheme , one , in order that he go over everything with them in regard to its application , and two , then answer any practical questions er where our members may find that there could be difficulties . |
| 11 | We agreed that the lack of action was an outrage and that we had to draw people 's attention to it . |
| 12 | We agreed that the wedding would be in ten days ’ time . |
| 13 | ‘ We agreed that the terms of the Edict would not apply to the starship . ’ |
| 14 | We agreed that the piano should not be put in our part of the attic . |
| 15 | We hypothesised that the patients with cholesterol gall stones have less metastable hepatic bile which would become more lithogenic during the storage in the gall bladder . |
| 16 | And we stress that the absence of noticeable discriminatory behaviour says nothing about how defendants perceived their treatment . |
| 17 | We stress that the list serves a heuristic purpose : it enables us to collect data on a fairly systematic basis . |
| 18 | This is not so and we stress that the results in Fig. 1.1 are routinely found . |
| 19 | We may scrape and spit and dab and rub , until the point when we declare that the truth stands plain before us , thanks to xylene and propanol and acetone . |
| 20 | After about a month , we realised that a catastrophe had taken place . |
| 21 | After a while we realised that the girders were not a skeleton for something fancier but the thing itself . |
| 22 | NOW the European Community mandarins have gone their separate ways after yet another costly weekend of squabbling and arm-twisting , it 's time we realised that the nations which form what was once called The Common Market actually have very little in ‘ common ’ at all . |
| 23 | Even more dangerous is it when we insist that a man of two thousand years ago meant what we mean in so contentiously abstract a sphere as religious faith . |
| 24 | Integrity becomes a political ideal when we make the same demand of the state or community taken to be a moral agent , when we insist that the state act on a single , coherent set of principles even when its citizens are divided about what the right principles of justice and fairness really are . |
| 25 | If , however , we insist that the scribes were simply careless or poorly acquainted with English , we shall be inclined ( as many scholars have been ) to reject the evidence and date this sound-change much later — at a time when it was actually completed in ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 26 | In the accompanying letter we requested that the sample be run out on their typesetter in order to satisfy a client that they were competent to handle a monthly four page newsletter for our mythical client on a 48-hour turn-round basis . |
| 27 | After follow-up work on numerous social issues by the individual parish groups in Warrington , Runcorn and Frodsham we trust that the ideas of growing into the society God wants will be put in action in our community . |
| 28 | Meanwhile we should perhaps consider what state we would be in , were we to agree that the sceptic 's argument is effective . |
| 29 | To put the record straight , I shall read the second paragraph : ’ We judge that the provisions of the Bill , as printed , are confused and inadequate for their purposes . |
| 30 | We expected that a number — perhaps an embarrassingly large number — of students would decide that they simply did not like our courses , and we were prepared to smooth the path of transfer . |