Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb infin] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's something to do with music reflecting society 's tends rather than being the voice of treason , then can we rightly assume that most bands of the last ten years have been pro-Thatcher ? |
| 2 | If it 's something to do with music reflecting society 's tends rather than being the voice of treason , then can we rightly assume that most bands of the last ten years have been pro-Thatcher ? |
| 3 | So , I suppose one of them , right , we can make mature , so if you 'd like to put your handset by the side of your phone , do n't put it down , we 'll let that one mature and prove that after 75 seconds we ca n't lose them , and with the other one , can we just prove that we can go back to the conversation any time we like . |
| 4 | Why to bother so much about the details , you may ask ; could n't we just say that unc and go on considering further examples ? |
| 5 | Shall we just say that I did n't meet the right woman ? |
| 6 | Shall we just say that a checkerboard solution is unjust by definition because it treats different people differently for no good reason , and justice requires treating like cases alike ? |
| 7 | Can we possibly claim that potatoes helped to win the battle of Waterloo ? |
| 8 | Do we still believe that the sun goes round the earth ? |
| 9 | Can we reasonably maintain that a woman must continue with a pregnancy in the full knowledge that she will give birth to a baby which will be either stillborn , or live a few days , even hours ? |
| 10 | Can we honestly assume that the way they are in school will be the way they relate to an employer , or to younger children in an adventure playground ? |
| 11 | How often do we , we really feel that the bride and groom are the people who make the choice ? |
| 12 | Can we really assume that the birds and monkeys and also mantids are such wonderful observers ( or that some very clever ones among them are ) to notice a " remote " resemblance and be repelled by it ? |
| 13 | Goldschmidt might rather have said : " Can we really assume that the birds , etc. are such poor observers ( or that some very stupid ones among them are ) ? " |
| 14 | In 1974 , Fidel Castro said , in his closing speech to the Second Congress of the FMC , ‘ We live in a socialist country , we made our revolution sixteen years ago , but can we really say that Cuban women have in practice gained equal rights with men and that they are fully integrated into Cuban society ? ’ |
| 15 | er , given the amount of poverty and misery that there is in this country , can we really justify , or can we really say that by paying Prince Andrew a hundred thousand pounds a year we 're being cost effective ? |
| 16 | Yet despite the heartening experiences of the last 199 issues of the magazine , can we really say that we have affected public opinion ? |
| 17 | Do we really believe that the rights we enjoy under our laws compare favourably with those in other societies ? |
| 18 | Do we really believe that such an instinct is to be found encoded only into molecular and electromagnetic patterns within the brain ? |
| 19 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 20 | Do we even know that he ever reached Turkey ? |
| 21 | Must we then conclude that the Zande are in these terms irrational , incapable of rational , cause-and-effect reasoning ? |
| 22 | Should we then conclude that the apparently arbitrary scepticism which underlies the question in fact has no answer , and that there is no objectively right way of following the rule ? |
| 23 | Should we then say that Uruguay is not neutral unless it starts providing the country suffering from the shortage in that commodity ? |
| 24 | Should we then insist that it is all SEGLAB 's fault and sit back waiting for it to improve ? |
| 25 | Can we therefore say that there will be no change in VAT rates if his system , as opposed to the council tax , is introduced ? |
| 26 | Meanwhile , so as not to break the thread of our story , let us just remark that any ‘ purpose ’ involved is internal to the agent or system and not that of a hidden hand . |
| 27 | Let us just accept that the inclusion of education within social policy is the consequence of a comparatively arbitrary decision by the author , and move on to look at the difficult problems that would have to be faced if we were to define social policy in terms of public expenditure which contributes to public welfare . |
| 28 | ‘ Let us just say that we expect this to be your only half-witted jape for the entire term . |
| 29 | Let us just say that we are dealing with pure conceptual models of types of social action . |
| 30 | Let us further suppose that : ( i ) We can show S(1) to be a true statement ; and that ( ii ) for each positive integer k we can prove , under the assumption that S(k) is a true statement , that S(k+1) is also a true statement . |