Example sentences of "[to-vb] we that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The protective measures taken by the ‘ experienced ’ Shetland oil industry have been used to reassure us that the environmental risks associated with this industry are now minimal . |
| 2 | A second argument has traditionally been used to reassure us that the economic power derived from the ownership of property is subject to constraints . |
| 3 | Mr. Lester , for the defendants , sought to persuade us that a local authority could not be guilty of the crime of corruption and that the Manchester Corporation case was correctly decided . |
| 4 | Mr. Levy , for J. 's parents , sought to persuade us that the particular order here could be justified because it was only an interim order , designed to ‘ hold ’ the situation for a short period until a full hearing . |
| 5 | So too , if we consult the Report of Her Majesty 's Chief Inspector of Constabulary , 1975 ( or almost any other year for that matter ) we find ourselves assailed within the space of only a few paragraphs with repeated references to The report was generous enough to remind us that the personal violence over which so much ink had been spilled amounted to less than 4 per cent of known serious crime . |
| 6 | The tables are turning now , though , with even George Bush making TV advertisements to remind us that The Big Country is waiting with open tills for our holiday spending money . |
| 7 | Bjornsson explains in a way which serves to remind us that the mathematical precision of a readability formula may be misleading . |
| 8 | Debbie sports a Medicine shirt , to remind us that the difficult West Coast noiseniks were once to play Rollercoaster , but would 've had to go on at about three in the afternoon to meet some venues ' childish curfews . |
| 9 | Wages , meanwhile , were held down — or , at best , rose only very slowly ; and it does n't need a Mr. Micawber to tell us that the net result for thousands of families was a fluctuation in living standards bordering all too often on total destitution . |
| 10 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |