Example sentences of "we that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At halftime , he 'd come on to the pitch and give the whole team extra-strong mints , rearrange the tactics , change our positions , tell us we were playing downhill in the second half , tell us that a six-goal deficit was nothing . |
| 2 | Let's have a look , then , at my little circuit of friends just as the calendar tells us that a new year is dawning … |
| 3 | ‘ He told us that a new laser , a pulsed dye device similar to the one now installed at the Ulster Hospital , could reduce the birthmarks by up to 90pc in some cases . |
| 4 | John of Salisbury tells us that a new custom had arisen in his time that on the day on which a young man was to be girded with the belt of knighthood he went solemnly to church , laid his sword on the altar , and offered himself and his service to God . |
| 5 | Psychoanalysis has made unfamiliar with the intimate connection between the father-complex and belief in God ; it has shown us that a personal God is psychologically nothing other than an exalted father , and it brings us evidence every day of how young people lose their religious beliefs as soon as their father 's authority breaks down . |
| 6 | In this blithe seaside comedy , Depardieu reminds us that a great star is more than a great actor ; he is a creature people ca n't stop watching . ’ |
| 7 | Politicians and health service managers have repeatedly assured us that a two tier service is not on the agenda . |
| 8 | This is an important distinction because it reminds us that a high level of teamwork , whilst perfectly desirable , is not absolutely essential for many routine activities . |
| 9 | Regrettably , it seems to some of us that a large proportion of the World Cup referees ‘ chickened out ’ of difficult and contentious decisions when they involved more powerful and vocal countries , but did n't hesitate to punish the lesser countries e.g. Calder 's butt and the Argentina v W. Samoa punch-up . |
| 10 | HISTORY tells us that a large part of Napoleon 's attraction to Josephine pertained to smell . |
| 11 | It is a creation of society , not of individual reasoning or emotion , though it may satisfy both ; and it is for this reason that Durkheim tells us that a psychological interpretation of a social fact is invariably a wrong interpretation . |
| 12 | They will only tell us that a Jewish prophet called Jesus lived , preached , fell foul of the authorities and was executed . |
| 13 | Mr. Lester , for the defendants , sought to persuade us that a local authority could not be guilty of the crime of corruption and that the Manchester Corporation case was correctly decided . |
| 14 | When phoned , the office told us that no such girl worked there . |
| 15 | Coleman tell us that an unleaded version of the stove is on its way — a move which will greatly reduce running costs . |
| 16 | The half-time score was nil-nil — yet there was our Brian promising us that the second half would be better ! |
| 17 | British Rail tell us that the 6.30 Aylesbury to Marylebone train service has been cancelled this evening , while the buses continue to operate a trouble-free service . |
| 18 | We told Jean Paul that the cut-off jeans held together with masking tape and ground-in dirt were a bit trop , and he assured us that the too-small cycling caps would look genuinely ridiculous when they were made up . |
| 19 | ‘ The protective measures taken by the ‘ experienced ’ Shetland oil industry have been used to reassure us that the environmental risks associated with this industry are now minimal . |
| 20 | But more immediately it reminds us that the imperial invaders played the role of the Persians ; that Barbarossa 's efforts systematically to reduce the cities of the north — and less systematically , those of Tuscany and Umbria — led to the formation of the First Lombard League ; and that the long struggle with the Hohenstaufen was one of the preludes to the formation of the civic empires which dominated late medieval Italy . |
| 21 | Now seafloor spreading tells us that the oceanic crust of the Pacific is moving away from the East Pacific Rise towards South America . |
| 22 | I tell the young people joining us that the great division in their lives , if they climb in the business , is the division between the company and their family . |
| 23 | It merely tells us that the young people were neighbours sharing " a common stair " . |
| 24 | However , Pelkmans , 1984 , reminds us that the technical efficiency gains are by no means automatic as a result of greater competition in integrated markets . |
| 25 | ‘ History shows us that the inherent strength of American communities and institutions can be attributed in large part to the freedom Americans had to experiment without the deadening hand of capital control . |
| 26 | Market research has told us that the average Punch reader is an ABC1 25–40-year-old male with a suspiciously large collection of unopened bottles of soda water . |
| 27 | But if we grow a client server towards the enterprise solution , we 've already talked about the straw pole that we often do where it indicates to us that the average number of er data repositories or data sources in an organization is more than ten . |
| 28 | I think it was a pathetic spectacle and what the papers we have in front of us that the Labour party have prepared does n't say are their achievements , I am not surprised they have tried to hide . |
| 29 | The fact that Christianity is just one option among many shows us that the private world is a competing realm of separate and pluralistic realities . |
| 30 | So too , if we consult the Report of Her Majesty 's Chief Inspector of Constabulary , 1975 ( or almost any other year for that matter ) we find ourselves assailed within the space of only a few paragraphs with repeated references to The report was generous enough to remind us that the personal violence over which so much ink had been spilled amounted to less than 4 per cent of known serious crime . |