Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guess he thought it safer to ask me there over the noise of the engine and in the babble of conversation than in some quiet spot alone , where we might be bugged . |
| 2 | They exist in written messages too , where we may be influenced by handwriting or typography , and by whether the message is in an expensive book or on a scrap of paper . |
| 3 | We used to go to a certain bar and sit at our favourite table , where we would be joined by a pair of bedizened harridans with dyed orange hair and chipped scarlet fingernails . |
| 4 | We were now in the 20th century irrevocably , ‘ part of an age where we must be allowed to take the possible risks of our own knowledge . ’ |
| 5 | But look around you — at your own class — the next rally you attend , the Annual Reunion and judge for yourself where we should be directing our efforts . |
| 6 | Establishing trends from the past is of enormous help in determining precisely where we are at present and where we should be going in the future . |
| 7 | Precisely here , where we should be asking this key diagnostic question , we are getting the fuzziest answers . |
| 8 | They came to Anoch in the early afternoon , having to break their journey early , because the opportunities for food and lodging were not evenly distributed between Fort Augustus and Glenelg : Johnson says , ‘ the only house , where we could be entertained , was not further off than a third of the way ’ . |
| 9 | Although we might be prepared outside our normal scheme to fund the current year 's training for such people on the understanding that future funding will not be available , so in other words if somebody comes along to you and says , I 'd like to do an M B A , beginning this year , now normally we we would say , yes , we will contribute our half to that cost , er and that would then be a high priority on our budget to provide continued support for the rest of that M B A course , we 're now saying that that the answer is actually no , because we can not provide support next year , we do n't think , er but if you never the less want to go ahead this year and then fund it yourself from then on , then we we have actually got money available which we can use this year . |
| 10 | One reason for this approach is that the design issues and their treatment may not be the same in both cases , although we would be advised to look for similarities . |
| 11 | Although we shall be looking at ‘ spiritual direction ’ in its narrower Christian connotation , we need to see it is also relevant to the wider contemporary scene where people are seeking both spirituality and direction . |
| 12 | Although we shall be grumbling for water , sha n't we ? |
| 13 | We have a rough idea ( although we may be mistaken ) of the rate at which new stars form ; we suspect that many , if not most , of them have planets — and so on until we come to the question about how long our ‘ ideal ’ technological civilization might expect to endure , to which any answer must be the most unfounded of guesses . |
| 14 | The famous inscription from Brough-on-Humber ( vicus Petuariensis ) , attesting the presence of a theatre , shows that some vici possessed magistrates with the title of aedile , although we may be dealing here with a site which was also a civitas capital . |
| 15 | Erm although we may be collecting more than that , and we may be collecting less than that . |
| 16 | Although we may be qualified to do so in certain areas , mainly commercial , we could not really be considered a top-class rugby-playing country strength-wise and have therefore decided not to bid . |
| 17 | If you put the cassettes on there although we should be having a new system |
| 18 | One of the things that does , I 'm not being Chairman , just asking questions , but one of the things that slightly concerns me because I know that in his document the director has put about providing day care type facilities in rural areas and I remember at our last meeting , the last meeting at one , we discussed specifically and area , erm it does , does worry me a little whether the absence of any capital expenditure on our part means that we may be providing day care facilities in some areas but it 'll be of a very much lower quality or a lesser quality than we may be providing anywhere else in the areas like and and . |
| 19 | He 's a highly talented rider with a hunger for success and if the Yamaha is up to it — and I 've no doubt that it is — than we could be celebrating a single figure placing tomorrow , and that really would be something . |
| 20 | Well , Oxfam week 's principally aimed at a house , house to house collection Jane , so we shall be asking a whole lot of people to get out on the streets and to put envelopes through the doors in their neighbourhood and then to go back later on and collect money which we hope people will kindly give us . |
| 21 | In his spare time , this it what I did n't know , he 's an avid , which I am also , so we 'll be swopping games in the near future . |
| 22 | ‘ Your main priority is to get to know the city as quickly as possible , so we 'll be acting mainly as back-up for the first few days . |
| 23 | Lots of people like the poster too , so we 'll be sticking with it for now , and as for the scores … we 'll be done some more reader challenges soon , so liars who can hardly play a game they claim to have mastered will have me to deal with ! |
| 24 | Delays cost us and the airlines a lot of money , so we 'll be beavering away to solve your problem as quickly as possible . |
| 25 | He simply does n't have a phone so we 'll be sending one out to him very soon . |
| 26 | " So we 'll be launching her come St Bartholomew 's more'n likely , " Harry remarked . |
| 27 | ‘ The new cars , ’ George said , ‘ will be heated by electricity , not steam , so we 'll be doing away with the steam pipe , eh ? |
| 28 | but the er , at the joint meeting of course they 're all a bit subdued , cos they 're coming onto to well what 'll happened , cos I 've work up there , they 're much more gregarious than the bloke down here , so they 'll take the stuff out of especially when , so we 'll be doing it . |
| 29 | We know that you want the GHI to guide you in choosing and using appliances , so we 'll be reviewing one product every month , starting with vacuum cleaners in February . |
| 30 | And our Brides ' Day was a sellout , so we 'll be running another one soon . |