Example sentences of "[subord] we be [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summarising prospects for a US-Soviet summit , Baker said : " I think we are right where we were the last time . " |
| 2 | You 've given me enough food to keep me alive and Cousin Genti 's cast-off clothing , seeing we 're the same size . |
| 3 | How can we tell people that , although we 're a Catholic organisation , we help non-Catholics too ? |
| 4 | Although we are a parliamentary democracy and would expect to take nearly every final decision in this place , is there not a body of respectable constitutional opinion that says that , if we propose to transfer the democratic accountability from a Westminster Parliament to an unelected European Commission , or even an elected European Parliament , the British people are entitled to take a view on the matter ? |
| 5 | Although we were the biggest employer in Britain , we had no serious employee-involvement policies . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's Captain America 's big birthday in 1992 , 50 years or something , so we were the last thing Marvel wanted around . |
| 7 | Once we were the desired distance away we had to stand perfectly still , reach slowly into our pockets for the food , turn side-on to the bird , look back at it over our shoulders and wiggle the meat . |
| 8 | The staff of nine , with the help of a Mobile , cover North Uist , Benbecula and South Uist ( total population around 7000 ) albeit we are the only Bank on South Uist with the Bank of Scotland having branches on Benbecula and North Uist . |
| 9 | But that 's cos we 're the only ones with any talent . |
| 10 | But that 's cos we 're the only ones with any talent . |
| 11 | Not until we were a few yards away from the perch could we turn , hold our arms out and release the jesses so that the bird could fly the rest of the way . |
| 12 | Do we get some money even if we are the away team if these games go ahead ? |
| 13 | Especially if we are the only paper to reflect the other side of the question . |
| 14 | If we are the very beginning of a project and , perhaps as an undergraduate , know very little at all about our chosen topic , we may actually start with articles from encyclopaedias . |
| 15 | But they just stood there as if we were the odd ones not them , which when you come to think about it is dead right . |
| 16 | There was an odd sort of camaraderie about it all , as if we were the front-line troops in battle . |
| 17 | as if we were the first visitors here . |
| 18 | ‘ If we were an interesting group we would n't need these silly clothes . |
| 19 | Because we are a big workshop , our losses would be big . |
| 20 | Because we are a parliamentary democracy . |
| 21 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 22 | We do n't send more papers out to external referees because we do n't want to exhaust this valuable resource ( even though we have about 2500 referees on our database ) and because we are the best judge of issues like whether the paper belongs in the BMJ or another sort of journal . |
| 23 | This deployment of weapons , with the fast-firers mounted high , is because we are the tallest Titan , and will aim over the Warlords ' shoulders … |
| 24 | ‘ But we were not given an easy ride just because we are an in-house company . |
| 25 | Alright , if an innovation comes onto the market that enables a farmer to increase his output , alright , if that er , innovations that lies , lies outside of erm , sort of orthodox or traditional methods there may be a psychological resistance to actually adopting it simply because we 're a newfangled thing ooh , I , I do n't know how it 's going to , how it 's going to work . |
| 26 | A spokeswoman for the Labour-run council said yesterday : ‘ This British flag image is n't one we want to project because we 're a multi-racial city . |
| 27 | ‘ Yeah , I do n't know how I 'd cope as a solo artist because we 're a real support group to each other . |
| 28 | Now , because we 're a major player in , in grain markets and most other markets , the European Community , increasing its supply on the world market will have a non-trivial effect on price . |
| 29 | It 's Abbey Number One , Abbey , Abbey Life is Number One for Claims , because we were the first company er , if I put it over there now , it will stop me collecting it and taking in out . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , because we were the only people there … ’ |