Example sentences of "[to-vb] we [that] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , experience does nothing to reassure us that the Government will use the powers they have taken to themselves to interfere with the untrammelled workings of the market place . |
| 2 | What we need in the present case is further evidence to persuade us that the proposal to distinguish ordinary attributives as ( 37 ) ( a ) and postnominal attributives as ( 37 ) ( c ) goes beyond the mere possibility of correlating the two intensional patterns to the two different surface constructions . |
| 3 | But the U.S. has space and a welcome for even more of us : with travel and tourism its third-largest retail industry , the ailing American economy can not afford to leave it up to our own tour firms to persuade us that the time — and price — is right . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , he thought it necessary , and we agree , in the context of this case , to attempt to satisfy us that the United Kingdom is not in any event in breach of the Convention . ’ |
| 5 | Although the government has gone to great lengths ( £1 million spent on marketing the proposals ( in an attempt to convince us that the NHS will still remain a National Health Service and will still be free to those requiring health care the proposals clearly spell the future of a health service which will move away from being a public tax funded service to a two tier service , with those who ca n't afford to pay on the bottom level receiving inadequate and cash starved services . |
| 6 | So now goat keepers are hoping to convince us that the meat is both tasty and nutritious . |
| 7 | But attempts to convince us that the eating of meat and fish is an evil invasion of the inalienable rights of animals and that it should cease forthwith are a sham . |
| 8 | The usage embodied in the first of these quotations is now well established in the literature , and the sentiments expressed in the second serve to remind us that the idea of the ultimately contingent nature of what is often taken to be ‘ natural ’ has a long and distinguished pedigree . |
| 9 | First , and parenthetically , it serves to remind us that the difference between the interests underlying individualism and holism is not merely the difference between showing why something happened to happen and why it had to happen , and thus between descriptive and counterfactual forms of explanation . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend is right to remind us that the Universities Funding Council has considerable funds which it receives from the Government and distributes partially for research-based purposes . |
| 11 | It serves to remind us that the collapse of the old political certitudes in Eastern Europe and the awakening of new political alternatives to market capitalism are precisely of a piece with the erasure of the old artistic ‘ avant-garde ’ and the ceaseless searching for the ‘ new ’ . |
| 12 | As I pointed out earlier , even those scientists who are most eager to assure us that the difference between man and other animals is only a matter of degree always conduct their experiments in a way which implies that the observer is quite different in kind from what he observes . |
| 13 | Well erm I know there 's enough people around , the Prime Minister is trying to tell us that the recession is over and so is the Chancellor , well yes , unemployment has now gone under forty thousand within Hertfordshire , it 's under forty thousand just . |
| 14 | One day Johann came to tell us that the King was now very sick , and that Antoinette de Mauban and a doctor were looking after him . |
| 15 | PW 's senior partner Ian Brindle looks out inscrutably from the foreword to tell us that the work provides ‘ a unique point of reference for company executives , investors and investment commentators ’ , which just about sums it up . |
| 16 | Now , at the time we had my grandmother living with us , so we had to tell her shut up , erm , and when they rang , er on the door , she , she was n't to sort of , call out and you know , to tell us that the door was ringing , |
| 17 | Pot plants and flowers that need regular watering will be watched carefully by the children if they are helped to do the watering , and they will be quick to tell us that the guinea pig 's water pot is empty if they can refill it themselves . |
| 18 | A DESPATCH from Rome in Thursday 's newspaper seemed to tell us that the Pope has been urging sex education for priests . |
| 19 | He has come to tell us that the feast is about to begin and we must go down immediately . ’ |