Example sentences of "we be [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | March 7th was one of the most momentous days in British sport during the last 50 years and , when our English team achieved the first back-to-back Grand Slam in almost 70 years , we are snatched away to watch highlights of Scotland v France . |
| 2 | ‘ We are moving quickly to limit consultation fatigue . |
| 3 | This time we are trying hard to improve batting and bowling . |
| 4 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're working hard to encourage Asians , Afro-Carribbean Britons and other minority groups to apply , ’ stresses a PYBT spokeswoman . |
| 6 | My own favourite example of this attack , and the contradictions that came with it , was that as Council members we were asked both to take pride in an NEA-sponsored and adulatory film about the graffiti that were then disfiguring the New York City subway system , and to support lavishly the great American museums whose distinguished collections were ( and remain ) a standing rebuke to the so-called experimental art of which graffiti were then such a beguiling component . |
| 7 | ‘ We were looking forward to free hospitality but there was n't a drop in sight . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We were sent upstairs to address envelopes as ‘ the girls ’ ‘ , she recalls , ‘ while Clive got on with the serious business of deciding about the paper . |
| 9 | where we were trying desperately to have schools because we had no schools when we first came here as I say . |