Example sentences of "that we [verb] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 The truth is that we do not even know what our ancestors actually looked like .
2 On a theory of understanding which linked what we can understand with what we could come to recognise as true , the distinction collapses and all the relevant sceptical arguments will be of the strongest type ; that is , will claim that we do not even understand the propositions we claim to know .
3 The changes have been more fundamental and some of them may have affected us in ways that we do not immediately recognise .
4 In these situations it is often the deterioration of the mind of the old person which makes tending tasks so hard to bear , which reminds us that we do not simply respond to bodies , we respond to people , negatively or positively .
5 Indeed , hierarchical ways of organizing Church reality have become so normative that we do not ordinarily stop to examine them .
6 That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses .
7 It is important that we do not altogether ignore videodiscs aimed at the consumer market .
8 Here is something that seems very like intelligence , and we must ask whether it is really that , or merely another clever but mechanical programming finesse that we do not yet see .
9 Could it be an incident in a Masterplan that we do not yet comprehend ?
10 I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated .
11 In the short term , disappointment at this result may be tempered by the knowledge that we do not yet have the burden of the large numbers of additional students already taken by some of the immediate winners in this competition .
12 We may have a system of " one person one vote " , but Liberals and Social Democrats point out that we do not yet have a system of " one person one vote one value " since some votes are more equal than others .
13 A question is an attention-focusing device , especially on things that we do not yet know but know that we do not know .
14 But a handful of physicists are prepared to accept the notion of psychic healing on the basis that there is some new sort of energy that we do not yet understand .
15 If there is a complex thing that we do not yet understand , we can come to understand it in terms of simpler parts that we do already understand .
16 ‘ This place tells us nothing that we do not already know , ’ said Holmes .
17 Even the classical certainties of laboratory apparatus present us with a mystery when we recognise that we do not fully comprehend how they arise from the quantum substrate of which they are composed .
18 The fact is , however , that we do not always do so .
19 In our society it has been pointed out that we do not always give due credit to the ladies who provide the refreshments at our meetings , and yet the coffee break is an attractive part of the evenings , the time when we can chat about the talk and other railway topics .
20 The sad fact is that we do not always treat our children very well .
21 Very common words , and particularly the short common words , are recognised so readily that we do not always look at them when reading text .
22 A recent Which ? report confirms that we do not always get a good deal from British sausages .
23 If you believe , as I do , that miracles sometimes take place between the brain and the writing hand , that we do not always know what we want to write until we have written it , then you will be gratified when the unconscious makes one of its surprise and glorious forays onto the page and not seek to suppress what has been given without your asking .
24 Our ability to recognise words which violate the spelling-to-sound rules is in itself a demonstration that we do not always use the GPC route ; but a simple experiment can also serve this purpose .
25 The pity is that we do not sufficiently encourage them to conduct those explorations .
26 It remains true , however , that we do not now have the means to deploy this approach wholeheartedly , so that anyone who insists on its universal applicability must be taken , at least for the moment , to be committing an act of faith .
27 I hope that the Government willl re-examine the funding of such developments in local authorities in conjunction with their community care programme so that local authorities and others can again consider a flexible response to ensure that we do not only seek residential care , but that we look forward to proper community care and support in the home .
28 The fact of the matter is. that we do not often have confirmed hypotheses of the given kind .
29 The most healing tears are those which neither overwhelm us with pain , nor are so detached from our feelings that we do not really own them .
30 Although there is an assumption that most of those people are little old ladies who live in the circumstances that I described earlier , I suspect that we do not really know who the beneficiaries will be , but if the Government do not know , they should tell us .
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