Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | At root , the educational changes with which we are engaged are fuelled by rapidly changing socio-economic patterns , and the particular political drive given to these at the moment is of much less importance ( in anything other than the short term ) than we may often feel to be the case . |
| 2 | We 'll just have to be very alert and very low-profile . ’ |
| 3 | We 'll not forget to be thankful . ’ |
| 4 | I think we 'll really have to be cautious and that one |
| 5 | ( I hear Anya 's hiss of horror ) ‘ but we might just manage to be friends . ’ |
| 6 | Hall and Davidoff have studied Victorian domestic ideology ; they have shown the importance of that ideology to an understanding of what we might now consider to be a " natural " division between public and private spheres based on a supposedly " natural " division between the sexes . |
| 7 | We could n't claim to be anything else ; we could n't speak for the families of Terry Waite or Brian Keenan . |
| 8 | If they both were of the same logical type , then we could not hope to be able to clarify the distinction between numerical and species identity and the possibility of order in space or time . |
| 9 | We 'd always have to be slinging people out . |
| 10 | There are considerable difficulties for them , like promotion — ‘ We 'd never get to be archdeacons , because we are n't priests ’ — but there are also pastoral roles they can fill that a man ca n't . |
| 11 | ‘ We would n't like to be far from town — we like culture — and horses smell so . ’ |
| 12 | We would n't like to be hauled over the coals by the veterinary council for unprofessional conduct . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ In any case , we would both have to be committed to the idea , half-heartedness wo n't do , it 's all or nothing . ’ |
| 14 | Er of tory council and policy perhaps we would not have to be saying to our tenants that we must raise you rents by nine point four percent this year and let's not forget seventeen nine , I think seventeen point six percent last year that were government guidelines . |
| 15 | It means that um particularly in therapy it can be very difficult later on because things that we would ordinarily consider to be supportive like being kind , like erm y'know kind of putting a comforting arm round somebody 's shoulders , like erm y'know ways in which people express support and affection for each-other ah are very very difficult for the survivor to accept because they 're sort of the part of the way in which she , and it usually is a she , has been abused in the past . |
| 16 | We could on this basis begin to question the lives of many people which we would subjectively consider to be less fulfilling than our own . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose we ca n't expect to be as spry as we were twenty years ago . ’ |
| 18 | We ca n't say er we ca n't ask to be in a different Division to Notts County and Derby and Leicester . |
| 19 | cos we ca n't seem to be , cos otherwise we look like flipping idiots |
| 20 | We ca n't afford to be annihilated . |
| 21 | We ca n't afford to be made fools of . ’ |
| 22 | We ca n't afford to be caught making what they would take as an act of aggression . ’ |
| 23 | After all , I am paying his salary , and we ca n't afford to be without him for six months . |
| 24 | Soon it will get so we will not want to be out there at all . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We will then start to be recognised by the people who specify job descriptions and conditions of employment , ’ he says . |
| 26 | And we will always have to be helped . |
| 27 | it erm we wo n't need to be bothered quite so much about getting paving stones . |
| 28 | But when this wretched business is over , we sha n't have to be enemies any more and we 'll have a drink together . ’ |
| 29 | But come away with Club 18–30 , share your precious two weeks with others who , like you , want to make friends and have a good time all the time , and you 'll find out why we can justifiably claim to be ‘ Fun Factor ’ Number 1 . |
| 30 | Second , for any possible world we can reasonably expect to be able to find another which resembles the actual world to the same degree . |