Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That more exact calculation has , I think , met with general approval and as I said in my statement about our proposal for council tax benefit in a written answer on 28 November , we intend to maintain that closer alignment in the wake of the changes in local taxation that are intended to take effect in April 1993 . |
| 2 | Because we think it so characteristic of human activity , we tend to assume that tool-using behaviour must demand special , exceptional intellectual skills . |
| 3 | We got told that that laser of oil can cut through concrete just like that . |
| 4 | Why do we need to know that another vehicle has Show Dogs In Transit ? |
| 5 | We want to stress that this vision is designed to stimulate thought and debate . |
| 6 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 7 | Incredibly , there was a time when we liked to think that sophisticated tool use was an exclusively human domain . |
| 8 | Whilst we did consider that this site could be developed with a single storey dwelling without seriously affecting the amenities of the village , we were not aware of the strength of local feeling against any development on this site . |
| 9 | We do know that most coal fields began life as swamps about 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period . |
| 10 | Just to remind everybody that we 've decided that this year we were n't going to put pressure on people . |
| 11 | I think we 've reviewed that this morning , early and we are doing quite well on forms , but do we need any further action on that ? |
| 12 | A spokesman for Ford said : ‘ We had hoped that lower interest rates and the Budget would help , but we reckon now that sales will be only slightly above last year 's levels . ’ |
| 13 | When Autocover was originally negotiated the objective was to establish a scheme to cover the widest spectrum of the membership possible but we had to accept that all Insurance Companies would insist on excluding certain categories . |
| 14 | We had to ensure that all working surfaces were hygienic and dirt trap free , and that food could be transported without spilling . |
| 15 | We come to believe that good writing shows how clever we are . |
| 16 | We observe a set of events , and decide that they have one explanation which is vastly more probable than all others ; so we come to believe that this explanation is correct , and we use it to make predictions in future . |
| 17 | We argued , rightly , that we believed in a diversity of supply and we wanted to ensure that that diversity of supply was available . |
| 18 | ‘ We have concluded that future growth opportunities can best be exploited by a simpler and more efficient organisation than exists today and we will be making a significant capital investment to increase production efficiency at our Kirkliston site as well as increasing our marketing effort worldwide . ’ |
| 19 | We have already seen that subjects given no pre-training do less well in the test phase than those given initial discrimination training and we have acknowledged that unambiguous interpretation of this difference is impossible . |
| 20 | We have seen that each system was forced to delay making a decision about the identity of a stretch of sound . |
| 21 | We have seen that graph-search terminology provides a useful framework for clarifying and examining issues involved in automatic speech processing . |
| 22 | We have seen that economic analysis may be of help in making difficult policy choices . |
| 23 | Several times , in bars , glancing up from our Bud or our Molson or our Miller , we have seen that same shot on the mounted TV : like a eugenic cross between swordfish and stingray , the helicopter twirls upward from the ocean and crouches grimly on the deck of the aircraft-carrier , ready to fight . |
| 24 | However , we have seen that this approach can be criticized on the grounds that the discourse structure of the interview is still present and that attempts to obscure the nature of the speech event are likely to lead in practice to confusion and difficulty . |
| 25 | In the north we have seen that this village planning may have taken place in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 26 | We have seen that this strategy had addressed the relation between certain population habits ( what Farr had defined as the vital statistics of marriage and divorce , fertility and fecundity ) and the nation 's economic prosperity , health and happiness . |
| 27 | We have seen that this information is really only useful if it can be obtained accurately and consistently across writers . |
| 28 | Like the malarial swamps out of which the Most Serene Republic rose , we have seen that human altruism , communal feeling and social responsibility arose out of the egoistic , sadistic and erotic drives with which nature had endowed man . |
| 29 | But we have seen that vertical separation with restraints may well be more socially undesirable than vertical integration . |
| 30 | Thus we have seen that British capitalism in the 1860s abandoned non-economic compulsion of labour ( such as the Master and Servant Acts which punished breaches of contract by workers with jail ) , long-term hiring contracts ( such as the ‘ annual bond ’ of the northern coalminers ) , and truck payments , while the average length of hiring was shortened , the average period of payment gradually reduced to a week , or even a day or an hour , thus making the market bargain more sensitive and flexible . |