Example sentences of "we [verb] that [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We regret that for practical reasons we can not accept cheques less than 7 days prior to date of departure .
2 To ensure that progress on waiting times continues , we intend that from 31 March 1993 , no one should have to wait more than 18 months for a hip or knee replacement , or a cataract operation .
3 We may be pardoned for reproducing a part of the opinion of The American Annals of the Deaf of this quarter on the subject : " The retention of the word " Dumb " — which in America has been dropped from the titles of the Convention of Instructors , The National Association , and several State Associations of the Deaf , and many schools , as well as from the United States Census — is probably due to a vote to that effect by the conference held in London last January ; but as our British friends who constitute the Association seem to favour American precedents , we trust that on further consideration they will follow our example in this respect alone , and omit the objectionable word from their title " .
4 We argued that for such students practice in the craft of writing would not only be valuable for its own sake but would help them appreciate the achievements of writers of the past and take an informed interest in contemporary writing :
5 With regard to intrauterine devices we suggest that in some women developing endometriosis while using them the disease goes unrecognised and they are treated by removal of the device .
6 We make no presumption about the right size of authority that will emerge in an area , but we expect that in most areas a system based on unitary authorities would be the most popular and effective .
7 We propose that in future advice and assistance , and where necessary representation before the immigrant appellate authority , should instead be provided by the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service . ’
8 We propose that in Raji cells the accumulation of a repressor is prevented , thus allowing gene expression .
9 We found that on two occasions it was unable to copy a large file across 5 floppy discs .
10 Instead of finding Whites had more favourable attitudes to the police than Blacks , and had been stopped , etc. , less ( as found in the studies of larger areas ) , we found that on some measures Whites were similar to Blacks in their attitude and experience , though there was still a tendency for Blacks to be less favourable to the police .
11 As Appendix II , and indeed the main survey results , make clear , it is not necessarily low income which makes credit at the same time both an obvious refuge and an unduly heavy burden — though in the main survey we found that in general people on low incomes were more likely to say that they were worried about money than people on high incomes .
12 In this study , we found that in obese patients psyllium moderately but significantly delays gastric emptying of a solid meal .
13 We found that in each case it was necessary to think of three dimensions .
14 Although there are specialist personnel and industrial relations roles , we found that in smaller firms the negotiations with trade unions were carried by a very few managers .
15 When we published our reports on country houses at risk ( Tomorrow 's Ruins , Silent Mansions and Endangered Domains ) we found that within two years up to two-thirds of the houses had found new owners or new uses .
16 We conclude that among intravenous drug misusers seroconversion for HIV is significantly associated with bacterial pneumonia .
17 We hope that in this Lenten Appeal we 've been able to give you a sense of that .
18 If we project that against total revenues expected in that year , it amounts to about one single day of revenue being allocated to the budget to implement the safety regime in the North sea .
19 We assumed that for each participant the occurrence of short spells followed a Poisson distribution .
20 We assumed that at each hospital the same proportion of missing or inadequate records ( 317/5167=6.1% ) were cases of Alzheimer 's disease and estimated that about 43 cases of probable Alzheimer 's disease ( 6.1% of 707 ) were omitted because of lost or inadequate records .
21 If we accept that in extreme cases certain babies should be allowed to die , we place doctors in a moral dilemma ; there is a line to be crossed , a choice to be made .
22 In this study , we showed that in healthy volunteers secretion of gastric platelet activating factor precursors increased under pentagastrin infusion .
23 If we assume that for various reasons promotion within six months is not possible , all or some of the interests might be met in alternative ways .
24 On the Friday morning we heard that by popular demand we were to stay on another week .
25 On looking more closely , we discovered that in one corner of the house , where the Electricity Authority had been carrying out some repair work , the pipe insulation had n't been replaced .
26 We know that with major sculptures such as The Burghers of Calais and the Balzac , Rodin did not claim that they were equally successful from all points of view .
27 And we know that through that period , there has been a steady increase in the number of police officers the county have got , and this county has always up to now , willingly funded those police officers .
28 erm Nonetheless , while we want to carry on supporting that , we 've also got to think , as Jack said , erm of as we enter the next century what is going to be right for our children , and we know that in many ways we have failed them and we know that we are producing many children who have n't had the training and the education that 's going to be necessary for us to be erm economically competent in the future , so we 've got to look at the whole of our educational provision , and frankly I think opting out was erm a sort of unnecessary blip on all of this that is n't really terribly important in the whole issue of how the children in this country should be educated .
29 We know that in general women who have been married ( that is , separated divorced or widowed ) are more likely to be living with their own parents than those who currently are married ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 ) .
30 And we know that in all things god works for good for them that love him .
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