Example sentences of "[to-vb] we that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The return of women to the homefront to live in varying degrees of poverty has been paralleled by an intensification of family-centred propaganda to remind us that women are the ‘ natural ’ homemakers , and that in difficult and unsettled times our prime responsibility is to make sure that our men and our children and our dependent relatives are properly cared for . |
| 2 | Dummy corpses dangle aloft , to remind us that Tyburn Tree was no joke ; but Caird and his cast also do justice to the element of pure burlesque , to Gay 's elegance and panache , to the swing and snap of the dialogue . |
| 3 | The law of diminishing returns has not applied to food production in the countries which have undergone the industrial revolution , although there have been periodic crises , such as the Irish famine of 1845–6 , to remind us that Malthus was not completely wrong . |
| 4 | In analysing the new acting Ferguson was nearer the mark when he suggested that the movies were now coming up with richer and more vital people but Daugherty 's comments serve to remind us that techniques and styles which should have been feeding into a new cinema of experimentation and realism were being used rather to bolster old conventions of melodrama . |
| 5 | What Piaget has done is to remind us that children operate mentally in a way different from adults . |
| 6 | But the attempt to assure us that directors are controlled by their shareholders must fail , for no matter how far the law goes in strengthening the powers conferred upon shareholders to monitor the managers of their company the reality is that where each shareholder only holds a tiny proportion of the share capital of the company none of the shareholders will avail themselves of the powers given to them to monitor the management . |
| 7 | And Luke goes on to tell us that Jesus drew special attention to those passages from the Old Testament which spoke of his death and resurrection , as a stimulus to repentance and the basis for forgiveness of sins . |
| 8 | It may accord with some of our moral gut reactions , which seem to tell us that wrongdoers should be made to suffer . |
| 9 | ‘ Miss Dersingham was able to tell us that Mrs Marr 's car came past Dersingham House on its way to the Rectory about 11.30 am on Saturday morning . |
| 10 | " I suppose he 's going to tell us that gentlemen now abed in England will be sorry that they 're not here , " remarked the Magistrate , but nobody was amused by this loathsome display of cynicism and the Magistrate was left to chortle grimly by himself , his soul pickled in vinegar . |
| 11 | Anyone who has got as far as saying this , has already thrown the first proposition overboard , because if it is ‘ the responsibility of management to do everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce prices ’ , then we would not need a commission to tell us that managements which raise prices are falling down on their responsibility . |