Example sentences of "[to-vb] we [that] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But attempts to convince us that the eating of meat and fish is an evil invasion of the inalienable rights of animals and that it should cease forthwith are a sham . |
| 2 | The usage embodied in the first of these quotations is now well established in the literature , and the sentiments expressed in the second serve to remind us that the idea of the ultimately contingent nature of what is often taken to be ‘ natural ’ has a long and distinguished pedigree . |
| 3 | First , and parenthetically , it serves to remind us that the difference between the interests underlying individualism and holism is not merely the difference between showing why something happened to happen and why it had to happen , and thus between descriptive and counterfactual forms of explanation . |
| 4 | It serves to remind us that the collapse of the old political certitudes in Eastern Europe and the awakening of new political alternatives to market capitalism are precisely of a piece with the erasure of the old artistic ‘ avant-garde ’ and the ceaseless searching for the ‘ new ’ . |
| 5 | As I pointed out earlier , even those scientists who are most eager to assure us that the difference between man and other animals is only a matter of degree always conduct their experiments in a way which implies that the observer is quite different in kind from what he observes . |