Example sentences of "what we [vb base] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we gain from this is obvious : our own consciences are clear , and we 're no longer implicated . |
| 2 | Liberal Democrats recognise the importance of the things we own in private but we also know the value of what we hold in common . |
| 3 | And that 's what we use for electronic circuits . |
| 4 | Given the substantial experience that many schools have built up of alternative timetabling structures — through the provision of BTEC courses , for instance , or CPVE , or through modular and cyclical courses under TVEI — it is hard to believe that schools will not take the opportunity of reviewing present practice to reflect more closely what we know about effective learning . |
| 5 | But it is the Liber Censuum , compiled in the last quarter of the twelfth century and incorporating many of these earlier texts , by the papal chamberlain , Cencio Savelli — later to follow Innocent III as pope — that provides us with most of what we know about papal finance . |
| 6 | We are taught not to focus on the more difficult aspects of what we know about other people . |
| 7 | Well St Aldate 's in the Civil War is quite a problem to talk about really , erm in half an hour , because it 's so enmeshed in the story of Oxford in the Civil War which is a long , very interesting one , so what I 'm going to try and do is erm to pick out some of the local landmarks that did survive in the 17th century and relate them to what we know about some of the people and in this short half an hour , just try and picture what it was like to live in St Aldate 's during the civil war . |
| 8 | Before the generally accepted laws of motion for such a system of particles do not have this property , his assumption is a departure from what we know about physical reality . |
| 9 | If this is what actually happened , it falls in line with what we know about asymmetric use of Creole between parents and children in the community . |
| 10 | The purpose is to compare what we know of spoken language interpreting and its effectiveness with developing awareness of the needs of deaf and hearing people in using BSL . |
| 11 | What we know of other people is learned in a similar manner . |
| 12 | We are inclined to think they are pretty typical , given our less detailed work at other football grounds and what we know of other groups of schoolchildren . |
| 13 | The ritual imagery of the Ring of Minos is nevertheless consistent with what we know of Minoan religious practices and it does offer some additional support for the idea of a sea-shore cult involving both fixed shrines built on the land and portable shrines ferried coastwise by priestesses . |
| 14 | From what we know of modern witchcraft practices , we can speculate that the stone circles were used for dancing and that this was a method of raising power ( similar to the ‘ cone of power ’ that witches use today ) which could then be stored in the stones to be used when required . |
| 15 | There is certainly a great deal to substantiate this distinction in what we know of early Greek thought … |
| 16 | In virtually equating doubt and unbelief they make doubt the opposite of faith in a way that is true neither to the Bible nor to what we know of human knowledge . |
| 17 | The same principle obtains if a man permits his personal belief to derange dramatically the laws of probability and what we know of human nature . |
| 18 | Of course , it is natural to examine a text in the light of what we know of ambient domains — its author , the period in which it was written , and so on — and to regard it as exemplifying or representing something of more general interest . |
| 19 | But from what we know of local practices It would seem that she must have been crucified Very near an ant-hill . |
| 20 | From what we know of primitive races it is highly probable that the incentive for producing these paintings was magical , the object being to fix in paint on the wall or ceiling of a cave an event — usually the slaying of an animal — which it was hoped would be effected in the future elsewhere . |
| 21 | What we know for sure is is really outlined here . |
| 22 | Even an uncertainty is tangible : " What we know for certain is that this point is uncertain . " |
| 23 | He knows more about it than what we know with these instruments . |
| 24 | With a proper programme of training , based on what we know from human athletes and extended by our own work , it should be possible to increase the performance of young horses much more than the empirical methods most trainers use . ’ |
| 25 | The lyricism that sells out to a state-ordained reality and solidarity is not the only lyricism we know , and it is the opposite of much of what we know by that name . |
| 26 | By producing this Bill , and by everything that they have done , are doing and will do , the Government are endeavouring to give British Coal the time and the means to meet what we perceive as longer-term needs . |
| 27 | Partly as a response to this we distinguish between what we regard as essential capacities of humans and the question of how , or whether , they are exercised . |
| 28 | It does n't matter what we put into these erm |
| 29 | Philip Roth 's contribution to The Facts is ( as distinct from Nathan Zuckerman 's ) significantly milder , in relation to family matters , than what we get in these abrasive comic fictions : but then the fictions can be nice too . |
| 30 | Not all of those , of course , as already noted , are reasonable-above all , any wholesale dismissal of what we get by direct awareness is entirely futile . |