Example sentences of "that we [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work of Burns and Stalker that we briefly introduced earlier is an example of an approach to organisations using the concept of a system . |
| 2 | He decided that they were British ( for no reason that we yet know ) . |
| 3 | Among the domestic mammals that we ordinarily eat , pigs are the only ones that are not strictly herbivorous . |
| 4 | Male behaviour is so normative that we ordinarily think of celibacy as meaning that men are to leave women alone , rather than seeing it as a positive step women take to make a non sexually-active community together . |
| 5 | That is , crossing the International Date Line means that we either gain a day ( eastwards crossing ) or lose one ( westwards crossing ) . |
| 6 | When Mike finally did collapse after two dreadful weeks , it was clear that we either had to give up , or drastically change our approach . |
| 7 | I am , however , open to reasoned and informed argument and I await with interest your correspondents ' blueprint for reversing our economic decline , bearing in mind that the stark choice is that we either increase our earnings or we accept a quite considerable reduction in our living standards . |
| 8 | I see from my Logbook that Geilenkirchen , Abbeville , Hirson , Hannover and Hamm amongst others appear as targets but I was never convinced that we either found , damaged , or even delayed the German masses ' progress through the Low Countries . |
| 9 | John says he was terrified that we even knew about the briefcase . |
| 10 | The process has become so refined that we even had a section called ‘ Oenology ’ , though it must be admitted that this eventually had to be re-named to ‘ Study of Wine . ’ |
| 11 | Not only are the technical and organizational problems huge but it is not clear that we even have the intellectual concepts needed to talk about the issues we face . |
| 12 | But it is in mercy that we most relate to fallen people like ourselves . |
| 13 | It was the bo ve bee , the insect that we most feared to meet in the forest . |
| 14 | Dennis 's unwitting participation in our mating was so exciting that we soon overcame any lingering doubts about the risks involved . |
| 15 | As you will discover , I am very much a believer that we largely teach ourselves when learning new skills and that the main purpose of a book or instructor is to help clarify exactly what your aims are . |
| 16 | He might try to justify the principle by appealing to logic , a recourse that we freely grant him , or he might attempt to justify the principle by appealing to experience , a recourse that lies at the basis of his whole approach to science . |
| 17 | I told her we were Baptists and she said she would tell her husband because he thought Gran was an amazing woman having such a large family , but she had told him that we probably belonged to ‘ one of these odd religions ! ’ . |
| 18 | Those two successes proved that we probably had n't missed European football . |
| 19 | Life is tough at times , and it 's when it 's at its toughest that we probably need and deserve some rewards . |
| 20 | My feeling is that we probably need to create a set of interlocutors on a regional basis who can have the right kind of influence on EC regional and social policies . ’ |
| 21 | The down side is that we probably have the toughest Xmas/New Year you could image ( excluding Crewe ! ! ) . |
| 22 | There is an uncertainty in the sense that we today observe the universe to be in a state of expansion , that is the most distant galaxies and clusters and galaxies are all receding from one another at a high speed , which actually increases as you look farther and farther away from us . |
| 23 | All the same , the fact that we are consciously mathematical , that we consciously incorporate straight lines and rectangles and arcs of circles into our artifacts , that we measure things and reckon by numbers , does seem to be a very fundamental human characteristic which is of great importance for the way we organize our lives . |
| 24 | The fact that we already participate in certain ways in what are effectively rationing decisions does not constitute an argument for greatly increasing the scope and visibility of that role . |
| 25 | I think a lot of the current concern about schools being accountable is partly because things that in fact are being done are not being seen to be done , and I think if many of the things that we already done were more obviously being seen to be done , and perhaps also thought through rather more carefully as to how they were being done , the public would feel generally erm happier about what was going on in their schools than perhaps they are at the moment . |
| 26 | I told her no messages had been sent and suggested that if Uncle was a businessman — I thought it better not to mention that we already knew he was a multi-millionaire businessman — he might naturally tend to be secretive and that he might also be reluctant to broadcast the fact that he had lost his yacht through what might have been his own fault . |
| 27 | I told her that we already had the tape and that she would have nothing to do but be there and play the role . |
| 28 | And as we were coming home from Rousay pier we met the Wyre post boat coming across for the mails that we already had dumped in Rousay . |
| 29 | Stated in these simple terms , the anti-cruelty position 's most obvious weakness is that it assumes that we already know that trapping wild animals is justified , if only it is done ‘ as humanely as possible ’ . |
| 30 | If we were to insist that prayer involves some form of dialogue then it would presuppose that we already know what is meant by the concept of God . |