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 | Instead of erroneously portraying the social charter as a formula for increased unemployment and as a dangerous capitulation to the trade unions , should we not realise that a policy of co-determination that gives employees a say and a stake in the running of their firms is the very reason why the economies of so many western European countries have been so successful ? |
| 8 | Can we not say that ‘ God was in the Buddha , teaching men the way of virtue and righteousness ’ , even though the Buddha did not clearly acknowledge God ? |
| 9 | That being so , suppose we have another member of staff who is equally as effective as a teacher but who does not work up the lecture notes in the same way : could we not say that his or her teaching is integrated with research to the same degree ? |
| 10 | Can we not say that we say if we do n't have agreement by the thirty first of January we can take someone like who we 've already identified who will do the job for the money and take at least one person on pending a decision on the salary increase ? |
| 11 | Why do we not say that each of the syllables ‘ is ’ and ‘ it ’ carries a level tone ? |
| 12 | Supposing , however , that those answers are correct , would we not allow that he knows them , even though he himself might not make that claim ? |
| 13 | Why do we not insist that presuppositions be proved too ? |
| 14 | Could we not argue that the plant or animal responds to the rhythms in its environment anyway ? |
| 15 | ( That , after all , is what is meant by the external cause of a daily rhythm. ) for example , could we not argue that the plant could move its leaves in response to the sun ; the shore-dwelling creature leave its burrow in the mud when the tide recedes ; or the diurnal or nocturnal animal respond to sunrise and sunset ? |
| 16 | Can we possibly claim that potatoes helped to win the battle of Waterloo ? |
| 17 | Do we still believe that the sun goes round the earth ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | How often do we , we really feel that the bride and groom are the people who make the choice ? |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | 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 ) ? " |
| 23 | 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 ? ’ |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | Yet despite the heartening experiences of the last 199 issues of the magazine , can we really say that we have affected public opinion ? |
| 26 | Do we really believe that the rights we enjoy under our laws compare favourably with those in other societies ? |
| 27 | Do we really believe that such an instinct is to be found encoded only into molecular and electromagnetic patterns within the brain ? |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | Do we even know that he ever reached Turkey ? |
| 30 | Must we then conclude that the Zande are in these terms irrational , incapable of rational , cause-and-effect reasoning ? |