Example sentences of "[that] we [modal v] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interest has been expressed in both the Crewe Heritage Centre and Ironbridge among nearby centres and I have received a suggestion that we might visit the Gwili Railway farther afield . |
| 2 | The first great motive for planting churches today is that we might reach the lost . |
| 3 | ‘ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law , having become a curse for us — for it is written ‘ Cursed be every one who hangs upon a tree ’ — so that in Christ Jesus the blessing accorded to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles , that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith' ( Gal. 3:14 ) . |
| 4 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 5 | There is a great demand from universities , polytechnics , further education colleges and sixth form colleges to implement the reforms as quickly as possible so that we may avoid the damaging effect on morale that delays and uncertainties could cause . |
| 6 | That is why we have been given free will , in order that we may choose the correct one . |
| 7 | Can my right hon. Friend arrange a debate on local government finance in London , so that we may discuss the growing evidence that Labour councils , far from struggling to provide services , can not even be bothered to collect millions of pounds of rates and of community charge still owing to them ? |
| 8 | In fact , we have repeatedly said that we would retain the current Code of Practice on peaceful picketing which limits the number of pickets . |
| 9 | Graham says : ‘ We were assured that we would have the top 20 referees in the country taking charge of our games . |
| 10 | I do n't think that we would enjoy the Victorian smog of 1880 London , so let's settle for 1850 England . |
| 11 | I can promise him and you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , that we shall examine the new arrangements . |
| 12 | Now Congress , I believe that we must adapt the considerable changes which have taken place in the last few years of Tory terrorism . |
| 13 | It is against this background of a highly anomalous solvent possessing some kind of possible patterning effect that we must consider the homoeopathic potencies . |
| 14 | This indicates that we must consider the stretching motions of both bonds together . |
| 15 | It thus does not follow from the inappropriateness of the concession theory in modern conditions that we must accept the normative conclusions of the contract theory . |
| 16 | This means that we must acknowledge the powerful emotional expressive components even in interpersonal transactions of an apparently impersonal kind . |
| 17 | It is against this background that we must see the recent withdrawals of a number of analgesics from the market in Britain . |
| 18 | I am glad that the Home Secretary recognises that we must tackle the whole question of crime to get a grip of the dreadful problem of stealing vehicles , which has affected my area of Newcastle . |
| 19 | We worked alone so that we could choose the good weather on my off duty days , but the communal gangs were no fair weather workers and pressed on under any conditions . |
| 20 | So as that we could have the rolling programme . |
| 21 | When the first stones hurtled towards the boar , it lunged forward , its head rising clear above the water so that we could see the downward curve of its tusks , the bead-like eyes wild with terror . |
| 22 | But I was still convinced that we could get the extra 200,000 . |
| 23 | Sir , Further to Andrew Hayward 's rallying cry ( Viewpoint , 16th April ) , I have long nursed a fantasy that we could catch the national imagination in all age groups with a simple generic advertising slogan as catchy as ‘ Use Your Loaf ’ and ‘ Go to Work on an Egg ’ . |
| 24 | So that we could keep the bloody team together over the next few years . |
| 25 | The ICAEW Guidance notes dealing with changes in professional appointments ( date 1.85 ) require that we should notify the other accountants that we are undertaking the corporate finance work unless the client gives a valid reason why such notice should not be given . |
| 26 | To move beyond this inadequate description , Gross ( 1978 ) argued that we should analyse the social characteristics of corporate criminals first by visualizing what qualities these organizational positions demand , and second by considering whether younger corporate officials who preen themselves to fit this image are more likely to succeed in their career . |
| 27 | But it certainly has n't determined policy in any way , because what we 've said is that provided we 're satisfied that there is n't profiteering going on by the oil companies , and our Office of Fair Trading have told us that there is n't , then it is right that , that we should pay the right price for our petrol , and that is what it costs at any one time . |
| 28 | The right hon. Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) thinks that we should change the standard spending assessments . |
| 29 | The War Cabinet on 4 September 1944 [ KP 12 ] approved the proposal " that we should instruct the Middle East authorities to send back all Russians whom the Soviet Authorities wished to have back irrespective of whether or not the men wished to return ; and the practice of obtaining statements from Soviet prisoners as to their willingness to return should be discontinued " . |
| 30 | ‘ In time , perhaps , these deaths will be avenged , but the Queen is insistent that we should meet the Scottish envoys . ’ |