Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | When these anxieties are ministered to by the products of the instant government under which we now with remarkable acquiescence subsist and are abetted by draftsmanship of the esoteric kind sometimes adopted by our professional brothers south of the border , we may expect to be confronted by problems of dimensions quite disparate to the simple issues which are essentially involved . |
2 | That is something which we should like to be changed in the future . |
3 | An uneasy feeling that we should wait to be asked back before we repeat an invitation , coupled with the rarity with which we have the energy to entertain , can reduce social intercourse to an annual gesture rather than a matter of maturing friendships . |
4 | He 's built almost 3 different teams in the past 5 years , got us promotion , a league title and we 're now in second place , which is where we must finish to be assured of a European place . |
5 | We , we 'll have to be feeding it |
6 | ‘ We 'll have to be giving them cocaine instead of whiskey . ’ |
7 | ‘ And we 'll have to be travelling back , ’ said Jim . |
8 | We 'll have to be going home . ’ |
9 | Well if they owe us money and stuff like that , we might have to be going to court in the end with it but the only trouble is , we 're losing that much bloody time taking a day off and going down there ! |
10 | In fact , we might have to be reminded that it came from a pig at all . |
11 | Some of us have been in here that long , we could have to be treated for exposure |
12 | We 'd like to be used in the same way as a training institution , ’ he said . |
13 | I do n't know if we 'd like to be affiliated . |
14 | There 's work that needs to be done , in most of the major sports grounds , but that 's proceeding and there 's , if you can imagine that there 's , in Shrewsbury for example , a lot of the work which we would want to be done on the grounds have been less than enthusiastic about doing , because they 're likely not to be there for very long . |
15 | So I think we would want to be pressing that sort of point er , on them . |
16 | Now in Oxford erm we actually do n't have any land like that , and the problem was that , even if we had self-build houses on the land which is available at the moment , on which we want to build council houses but we have n't got the money to build council houses , if we were to allow self- build to go ahead on those sites because of the value of the land then the sorts of people who would actually be able to afford them would not be people on low incomes , or even sort of low to medium incomes , they would actually be people who were fairly well off and therefore not the people that we would want to be directing our resources at . |
17 | Well I did say to , to Nicholas that we would start to be looking at whether they 're successful or not . |
18 | So that into the turn of the year , I ca n't be any more precise er than that , certainly we would hope to be seeing er the wood er from the trees . |
19 | Those are the questions that we would like to be asked . |
20 | We have expressed our wish to the council that we would like to be consulted over the detailed implementation of the conditions and sincerely hope that we will be allowed to play a constructive part in this process . |
21 | So and , and I think maybe it 's a good idea that we write and say that we would like to be given an opportunity to speak to them . |
22 | This is made crystal clear in a somewhat laboured exposition in a book by Preece and Maier published in 1889 : Let us suppose the two microphonic transmitters are placed on the stage at T and T 1 , and these transmitters separately connected by two distinct wires to two telephone receivers , R and R 1 , which are applied to both ears to hear the actor , whom we will suppose to be placed at A. It is easy to understand that , the distance of this actor from transmitter T being less than that from transmitter T 1 , his song will be more distinctly reproduced by transmitter T than by T 1 , and the stronger impression will be produced on the left ear . |
23 | We held our position against that and I 'm pleased to say er , we will continue , we will continue to be stocked . |
24 | and erm therefore this year er there is a case for saying we shall start to accrue some of the backlog er to the extent , but only to the extent we will expected to be paid shortly thereafterwards . |
25 | In presenting the rationalisations and justifications a group offers for doing things as it does , we will seem to be accepting its rationalisations and justifications and accusing other parties to the transaction in the words of their opponents . |
26 | If we point to those aspects of the addict 's experience which seem to him to confirm his beliefs , we will seem to be making an apology for the addict . |
27 | In so doing , we will seem to be agreeing with his view . |
28 | Erm so really the issue is we have n't made any decisions yet , these are the things we 've got ta try and make decisions on , but we will need to be starting to think them before we get to June . |
29 | According to Goffmann , what lends credibility to our concepts of personal self is the recognition of certain rules or conventions which limit the claims we can expect to be acknowledged with respect to freedom from untoward threat , interference and so forth . |
30 | Whereas we used to have what you might call an across-the-table relationship with our customers , now we can claim to be sitting on the same side of the table . ’ |