Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] how we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we to concur with Stevenson 's conclusion ( 1981 ) that ‘ it is hard to see how we can escape in general in organization of service from the broad client groupings , now so deeply entrenched in social service provision and in the linkages which are required with other professions ’ ( p. 100 ) , and if so how are we to select client group(s) ? |
| 2 | On one level it is hard to see how we can avoid reproducing this contradictory space when speaking of the inner city as a place , a fusion of social problems . |
| 3 | It will , however , always be difficult … all we have said about organisation level validation applies to evaluation : it is hard to see how we can evaluate training unless our validation has reached the organisation level … ‘ |
| 4 | It is hard to see how we could know this truth , or even understand what is meant by it , unless we were acquainted with something which we call ‘ I ’ … |
| 5 | ‘ It is hard to know how we can ever tackle that , ’ one said . |
| 6 | Short of actually achieving this , it is hard to imagine how we would then perceive social relations , and what sort of responses would seem appropriate to the actions of others . |
| 7 | As he says , quoting from Freud 's Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis , If we started life as " a chaos , a cauldron full of seething excitations " , with " no organization " and given to satisfying our wishes by hallucination , it is hard to imagine how we could begin to experience the external world in such a way as to learn adaptation from it . |
| 8 | But as the airports prepare to jet the lucky ones to foreign climes … the good old British weather is likely to dictate how we spend Easter at home . |
| 9 | Stoppard 's comments on Anderson , for instance , at the beginning of the play are very likely to influence how we interpret his uncooperative conversational behaviour in scene one , even if , in later scenes , we infer different motives . |
| 10 | It is salutary to learn how we appear not simply through our own eyes , but through the eyes of an objective assessor . |
| 11 | I 'm not happy about the way Banville beat him up , but at least in his absence we 'll be able to see how we manage without him around . ’ |
| 12 | The social philosopher Alfred Schutz ( 1889–1959 ) was concerned to demonstrate how we never notice the way in which everyday life works ( Schutz 1943 ) . |
| 13 | You may say that it is refutable and so it is empirical ; but then — see below — our criteria for cognisance are so much bound up with what the subject can do that it is difficult to see how we could assess the cognisance of a totally passive creature . ) |
| 14 | In Australia , the spokesman said , ‘ it was difficult to see how we could get to a position of influence in the market without spending a lot of money . ’ |
| 15 | But it is difficult to see how we can have sensitivity to plants and rivers , trees and ecosystems if we have no sensitivity to the caged animal , or the animal undergoing product-testing or about to be slaughtered . |
| 16 | In either case , it would seem that everything in the universe would then be determined by evolution according to the laws of science , so it is difficult to see how we can be masters of our fate . |
| 17 | We are due to review the morning service pattern at the church meeting on December 9th , although it is difficult to imagine how we could ever revert to a single service since already we have about 500 adults and children attending the two services ! |
| 18 | And so it is necessary to ask how we are to transform the distinction commonly drawn between arts and sciences , or perhaps replace it , deep though it goes in the structure of our educational curriculum . |
| 19 | Now , no doubt your predecessors , and certainly mine , would be astonished to know how we can meet in this way , but I wonder whether they 'd approve ? |