Example sentences of "we be [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN OUR arrogance , we parents tend to assume that our children love us , respect us and think we are endowed with the wisdom of Solomon . |
| 2 | We are poised on the edge . |
| 3 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 4 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 5 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 6 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 7 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 8 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 9 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 10 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 11 | Right at the outset we are alerted to the tact that Mary Frith , the real-life cross-dresser on whom the play is based , is being given a more virtuous image than she in fact possessed ( dedication , ll. 19 ff. ; prologue , ll. 26 — 7 ) . |
| 12 | The long history of marriage and the family we are given in The Origin if first and foremost to show that the family and marriage do have a history . |
| 13 | We are faced at the moment with the horrifying effects of pollution in all its cancerous forms . |
| 14 | As the records are processed in a sequence that can not be predetermined , we are faced with the problem that we know the key or control number of the record but have no indication of its location in storage . |
| 15 | Perhaps one of the reasons why we are faced with the menace of increasing savagery among a minority of the young is that they fail to realise that TV is not a ‘ window on the world ’ , but a structure of small , angled , mirrors reflecting different viewpoints . |
| 16 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 17 | Having pursued a pseudo-Hegelian sequence with an emphasis on the ever increasing abstraction , which leads to an ever more radical separation of subject and object , we are faced with the question of the nature of subject-object relations in this new era . |
| 18 | We are faced with the end of man . |
| 19 | But first we are faced with the prospect of a decently brisk run there , and in horribly wet and miserable conditions . |
| 20 | At the same time we are faced with the dilemma that these theories appear to be mutually exclusive : does this mean that the peace movement should take a cynical ‘ supermarket ’ attitude to attempts to theorise law and take from the shelves whatever theoretical package is best suited to the purpose ? |
| 21 | ‘ We are faced with the task of identifying the girl . |
| 22 | In as much , however , as the cultural forms thereby produced become the external environment through which emerge other groups whose interests are not identical , and indeed may be contrary , to their own , we are faced with the situation described in the discussion of building styles above , where the dominated group is forced to attempt to invest itself in the domain of culture represented by the built environment in terms of a set of objects whose initial meanings are antagonistic to its own interests . |
| 23 | We find , in our day-to-day constituency work , that if we complain we are asked — quite understandably — to produce more facts : we are asked for the basis of the complaint . |
| 24 | Inevitably we are moved in the direction of using proxies which can not properly be validated . |
| 25 | Just a few paragraphs in and we are plunged into the fog and grime of the capital : in 1817 the American Ambassador was enveloped in a midday fog in Bond Street so thick that he felt tempted to ask how the English became so great with so little daylight . |
| 26 | We are connected to the phone down there . |
| 27 | If it is true that humankind is fallen , that we are separated from the presence of God by our failure and helplessness and are in need of God 's forgiveness , Abelard 's views do not reflect sufficiently well the seriousness of our predicament . |
| 28 | As tv onlookers we are placed at the centre of events no human being could ever witness in the flesh , by close-ups of a bomb's- eye view of the interior of a ventilator shaft right up to the moment of impact . |
| 29 | To some extent we are sheltered from the awfulness of reality by television . |
| 30 | They declared : " We are united in the belief that Iraq 's aggression must not be tolerated . |