Example sentences of "[conj] we be the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It , I mean , it disappoints me that we are the country in Europe that that 's always dragged , kicking and screaming to the table , to discuss things like this , which are the benefit of the majority of the people in the in the European Community . |
| 2 | Lance Corp Zolden , of the Royal Corps of Transport , added : ‘ It is a standing joke that we are the Army 's AA I guess you could say that is true . ’ |
| 3 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 4 | So , if we are grooming a horse and it tries to cow-kick us , we retaliate with a sharp verbal reproach or a smack with the flat of the hand , and usually the horse decides to accept that we are the boss and minds its manners in the future . |
| 5 | Secondly , if a horse is aggressive towards us , it is better to try and get the horse to accept the fact that we are the boss horse , not by punishing it , but by teaching it something . |
| 6 | Taliesin said , ‘ You may be sure , sir , that we are the Queen 's men through and through , ’ and Calatin said he was very glad to hear it . |
| 7 | The apparent parallel between the development of the human individual and the history of life on earth is thus God 's symbol telling us that we are the goal of His creation . |
| 8 | Now the planning application is for Waste Regulation rests with this Authority and I would emphasise that to members here that wh if you 're looking at the sites you must bear in mind that we are the waste Site Planning Application Authority and that you can not go and make progress in any direction without it coming to Committee here and I would hope that officers would bear in mind the sensitivity which has already been mentioned in agenda today but members will find that these applications er are addressed in their own district , in their own divisions . |
| 9 | I do n't know I mean I do n't know nothing about these things , what , really have to feel that we are the lot |
| 10 | Saddened sympathisers offer condolence : that we are the victim of our own success — that it was Labour 's postwar achievements that gave rise to today 's affluent but now electorally ungrateful majority . |
| 11 | We have got to reinforce the fact that we are the party of sound money . ’ |
| 12 | Does not it mean that we are the party of hot money , not hot air ? |
| 13 | They should realise that we are the future — more comfortable with things than people . |
| 14 | And the searchlights the the battery that we were The camp that we were near , they opened fire and the battery would open fire at that , and the searchlight anyway came in through the window . |
| 15 | ‘ In newspaper terms , the BBC is much more Telegraph and we are the Mirror or even the Sun ’ , remarked ITV 's head of sport recently . |
| 16 | He always says , and we 're the party that does n't quarrel ! |
| 17 | ‘ The Prussians are the left-hand door and we 're the right , and when the French push in the middle , Sharpe , the two leaves will hinge apart . |
| 18 | If the decisions were being made by a planning inquiry and we were the planning inspectors , would we give permission for the spending of someone else 's money on such as project ? |
| 19 | Cos we 're the end . |
| 20 | ‘ My hope is that Britain may become a sort of housing laboratory , like we were the welfare state laboratory , ’ he says . |
| 21 | You know , we sometimes think of the World Church as being something that 's out there beyond us , but we are the World Church are n't we ? |
| 22 | ‘ The truth is that we get hammered because we are the sport trying to clean up our act and , therefore , our work becomes high profile . |
| 23 | Well it kept us and er when we were the school holidays my brother and me used to gather whelks and and that . |
| 24 | The Shropshire press nicknamed her ‘ the ice queen ’ ; local policemen claimed she treated them ‘ as though we were the scum of the earth ’ ; Shropshire neighbours declared her a loony . |
| 25 | In other words , instead of almost doubling year by year , last we are about the same , we have n't got all the confirmations , we 're about the same as we were the year before , give or take a few , about say five percent . |