Example sentences of "we [vb infin] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor should we think that the situation is better at secondary level . |
| 2 | On what basis , then , can we demonstrate that the world has been made , like an artefact , and not simply grown , like a vegetable ? |
| 3 | How do we know that the drugs enforcement authorities are doing their job when there is no point at which they are democratically accountable to elected people ? |
| 4 | How do we know that the experience that we presume that other people have in their religion is what we ourselves experience as we come apparently empty-handed to it ? |
| 5 | such as ‘ How do we know that the behaviour of numbers does not somehow change as they become larger ? ’ |
| 6 | How do we know that the laws of nature are not really like laws of a game of chess , but played on a chess board where the laws change as you go from place to place on the chess board , which is a very more complicated situation than an ordinary chess game where the laws are the same no matter where the pieces are . |
| 7 | Now , these er , Samaritans , they received the Holy Spirit , now how do we know that the Samaritans actually spoke in tongues ? |
| 8 | Addresses have been drawn by statistically random methods and , as you will appreciate , the success of the research depends upon our obtaining the highest possible response rate as only then can we ensure that the sample is truly representative . |
| 9 | How can we ensure that the data survives that will make these questions answerable ? |
| 10 | Should we assume that the meaningfulness of such a hypothesis necessarily depends on the possibility ( in principle , at least ) of turning the relevant propositional schema into a meaningful singular proposition , viz. by replacing the " bound " variable ( the variable governed by the " existential quantifier " ) with an appropriate name , or a naming phrase ? |
| 11 | Shall we assume that the Home Secretary , too , will grant a reprieve to William Joyce ( ‘ Lord Haw Haw ’ ) because by January 3 , 1946 , the date of his execution , Germany had ceased to be an enemy country ? |
| 12 | However , a new problem arises — that of selection due to differential recruitment of those receiving or not receiving X. For example if , after a TV programme on violence in society , we sample to compare the opinions of those who watched it with those who did not on the question of bringing back corporal punishment , can we assume that the subpopulations of watchers and non-watchers are otherwise similar ? |
| 13 | Nor should we assume that the parties were static . |
| 14 | May we expect that the cost of transporting freight from the mainland to Orkney and Shetland will be comparable with the cost of such transport to the Western Isles ? |
| 15 | So that 's all got to happen and can we expect that the improvements that have been made now to the syst to the management of this process will not give rise to the same delays that occurred in getting this system flight safe . |
| 16 | We do not buy live poultry from the local market and carry it home squawking and then wring its neck , nor do we insist that the fish we order in a restaurant should have been swimming about only moments before . |
| 17 | If there is this source of contamination necessarily present in the procedure , why should we insist that the input to the procedure be completely sterile , i.e. devoid of any taint of falsehood ? |
| 18 | Can we suggest that the Recreation Ground look at the opening of the toilets , and ask them to , to consider this , at their next meeting ? |
| 19 | Here we meet a central theme : ca n't we demand that the doctor set out the principles on which he acts for all to see ? |
| 20 | And it is not easy to discover any more covert or sophisticated moral view of the characters and the events of the poem : it does not dwell in any suggestive way on the irremediable carnality of human desires , and only with a degree of distortion and uncalled for determination could we assert that the poem is significantly antifeminist or anticlerical . |
| 21 | Compared with how the German coal industry is subsidised — its coal is produced at no less than £89 a tonne compared with £42 a tonne for deep-mined coal in Britain — how can we say that the industry is on a level playing field in Europe ? |
| 22 | The formulae ( ‘ it seemed good ’ , ‘ straight away ’ ) are aped from ‘ city ’ terminology ( and note the deme agora , something normally characteristic of a polis , cp. p. 66 ) — or should we say that the city aped the demes ? |
| 23 | ‘ Do we say that the penny possesses the piggy bank ? |
| 24 | How do we imagine that the Poles could put the zloty in the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 25 | If nobody else wants to make a contribution , do we agree that the report be accepted . |
| 26 | Do we agree that the report should be noted . |