Example sentences of "be [verb] we " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | " We 've made no headway towards finding out whether your suspicions of Mr. Andrew Stavanger 's letter are justified We do n't yet know where Mr. Stavanger is , and such evidence as we 've been able to discover so far is inconclusive , " I said . |
| 2 | This is somewhat unfortunate because by the fourteenth of January we are supposed to agree a purchase plan with the health authority , and it 's a little difficult to do that in the absence of the knowledge of what conditions are attaching us to where and how you can spend the money . |
| 3 | ‘ Sense and Memory of things , which are common to man and all living creatures ’ are knowledge , but ‘ because they are given us immediately by nature , and not gotten by ratiocination , they are not philosophy . ’ |
| 4 | Another possible version of foundationalism holds that there are some beliefs which are given us as ‘ data ’ , and which are fully justified unless something arises to defeat their justification ( cf. the use of defeasibility in 2.3 ) . |
| 5 | Remember that this is the only national fundraising that we are asked to do each year and that this year HQ are allowing us to keep 20% of the cash for our branch funds … so come along the other 75% , let's find those books of tickets and get the stubs ( and the £2 ) to , |
| 6 | Mr Macmillan echoed the same thinking about the H-bomb : ‘ When the tests are completed we shall be in the same position as the United States or Soviet Russia … |
| 7 | I tell Fairfax a great deal more than I had intended , but I believe our confidences are drawing us together . |
| 8 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 9 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The Geophysical Observatory in Port Moresby have over the years provided us with very useful earthquake data and are helping us monitor the after shocks which are sill being felt in the Tari area . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ No , you are helping us with our enquiries . ’ |
| 12 | So I 'm saying to Graham , come on , we 're helping you , you are helping us obviously , I 'm not gon na deny the fact you 're helping us with our research . |
| 13 | But if you take the , the servicing sections overall , what we should be able to say is that look okay we 're gon na have a delayed kick in of improved productiv because it , productivity cos of new systems that are helping us , whether it moves us from two point six to two point seven to two point eight is arguable , and we wo n't know that for sure until we get there , but we should n't have is deterioration . |
| 14 | After we are registered we go into assembly and listen to one of the teachers or a guest speaking for ten minutes . |
| 15 | We have parents who seem to have lurched abruptly into grandparenthood , or who are nagging us to make them grandparents . |
| 16 | So far , we have discussed the properties of matrices , and the algebra of matrices , in general terms , and without reference to the nature of the elements : where illustrations have been given we have used arithmetical numbers for elements . |
| 17 | We 've got According to the information I 've been given we 've got seven thousand cubic metres of which is useful |
| 18 | The rebel officers had probably been given US blessing on the understanding that it would not bail them out if things went wrong . |
| 19 | ‘ God 's own love has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given us , ’ says Paul in Romans 5:5 , and he rejoices to hear of that ‘ love in the Spirit ’ , which is to be found in the church at Colossae ( 1:8 ) . |
| 20 | The Spirit has been given us to enable us to understand not the future , but the gracious gifts God has already made over to us ( 2:12 ) . |
| 21 | The French have been accusing us of lack of co-operation lately — military co-operation , that is . |
| 22 | At home we were soon given the answer to a question which had been puzzling us : Who had saved us ? |
| 23 | Instead , manufacturers are encouraging us to buy faster machines with more storage capacity and better displays . |
| 24 | And as we 've been singing we just want those words to be true in our experience . |
| 25 | When drugs which cause drowsiness are prescribed we are frequently advised to avoid all alcohol intake because this particular quality is heightened by the synergistic effect with the alcohol . |
| 26 | In other words , we are not forgiven because we keep the law : but once we are forgiven we are called to keep it . |
| 27 | Psychobiology is particularly exciting at the moment because advances in instrumentation are bringing us new ways of studying the brain while areas like artificial intelligence are providing new ways of thinking about how it might work as the ‘ organ of behaviour ’ . |
| 28 | Scottish Opera are bringing us their full company of soloists , chorus , and orchestra . |
| 29 | Now that their thinking has been completed we must , however , expect them to make very rapid progress and be prepared to closely track their developments . |
| 30 | I said that once the process of privatisation had been completed we would publish the figure for the total proceeds , and also that I would reconsider the possibility of publishing individual sale proceeds . |