Example sentences of "we [vb base] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notes We regret that the tour is not entirely suitable for people in wheelchairs . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | ‘ We regret that the Department has encouraged parents to expect schools to report to them using these measurements so prematurely . |
| 4 | This is not so and we stress that the results in Fig. 1.1 are routinely found . |
| 5 | We stress that the list serves a heuristic purpose : it enables us to collect data on a fairly systematic basis . |
| 6 | And we stress that the absence of noticeable discriminatory behaviour says nothing about how defendants perceived their treatment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This is why we only record minimal acceptances , or in other words , why we insist that the unc are incomparable . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The champagne went down very well on the night the Tobacco Institute of Australia 's appeal substantially failed , but we fear that the hangover from this report may last rather longer . |
| 14 | A great number of federal nave ships have congregated in the Kornati National Reserve , and we fear that the area 's unique geomorphology and marine life may be threatened by mines they have left . |
| 15 | More importantly , we fear that the suggestion that this may happen may deter some doctors from giving adequate doses of these drugs when they are properly indicated . |
| 16 | We do this because we fear that the other language may not contain the sophisticated concepts we may need in the communication . |
| 17 | ‘ We fear that the construction of a sea defence wall will pave the way for road and business developments and will signal the end of Southport as a resort . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We fear that the major call-up … could , instead of helping to prevent violence , lead to serious intimidation of local communities and even more violence , ’ the ANC said . |
| 19 | We postulate that the alternation of homogeneous gabbro and graded layers is produced by a magma chamber that remains below the critical concentration for substantial periods of time and generates a steady accumulation of crystals on the floor in the cotectic proportions . |
| 20 | With this philosophy in mind , we postulate that the divergent process is the worst possible . |
| 21 | We postulate that the supradiaphragmatic segment of transposed colon has evolved a MAC type activity in an attempt to overcome the ‘ obstructive ’ effect of the diaphragmatic hiatus . |
| 22 | But sometimes when we say that every person is only required to sacrifice a little we mean that the antecedently expected sacrifice is small , i.e. that the odds that he will have to sacrifice a lot are small . |
| 23 | ( By ‘ lateralisation ’ here we mean that the functions are based on one side — usually the left — rather than the other . ) |
| 24 | His argument would be that most electronic circuits are organized interactively , by which we mean that the proper operation of one component depends on the normal operation of all of the others . |
| 25 | The auxiliary use of need has also been found in the following type of sentence not listed by Jacobsson : ( 23 ) By co-vary , we mean that the more a language has of one of the processes , the less it need have of the other . |
| 26 | Here we report that the DD genotype , which is associated with higher levels of circulating ACE than the ID and II genotypes , is significantly more frequent in patients with myocardial infarction ( n=610 ) than in controls ( n=733 ) ( P=0.007 ) , especially among subjects with low body-mass index and low plasma levels of ApoB ( P= 0.0001 ) . |
| 27 | We suggest that the choosing of the names for the child enables the parents to pay compliments to other relatives . |
| 28 | We suggest that the act of baptizing the child is viewed with superstition as much as religious belief ; that it is ‘ better ’ for the child to be baptized in case anything happens to it . |
| 29 | We suggest that the first-born child tends to get a bigger party and more presents than subsequent children . |
| 30 | To the extent to which it makes sense to speak of interactions between whole nations at all , we suggest that the two superpowers and their allies may indeed be playing something like the paranoids ' hypergame . |