Example sentences of "[vb -s] we [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It behoves us to be sceptical , then , about Victorian genealogical status symbols ; frequently there is an inverse proportion between the degree of pomp and the humble nature of the ancestry . |
| 2 | ‘ Father is afraid I 'll die soon , you see , so he wants us to be married tomorrow morning . |
| 3 | With all Scotland quiet as a flat calm under his hand , he wants us to be quiet too , and let be the Mackinnons and the Maclaines of Lochbuie for a year or three . ’ |
| 4 | Confidence in God allows us to be gentle with others as we no longer struggle to assert our own plans and willpower over them . |
| 5 | This allows us to be patient in the face of the daily frustrations of life . |
| 6 | Game theory forces us to be precise about three sets of assumptions on which a model rests : |
| 7 | Each requires us to be able to produce a ( pseudo- ) random value , u k equally likely to lie anywhere in the range 0 to 1 . |
| 8 | Such reading requires us to be active and critical . |
| 9 | That prevents us from being receptive to life and therefore also from receiving its benefits . |
| 10 | We wonder if she has ever heard of chronic paranoid schizophrenia , and she tells us to be quiet . |
| 11 | but noted that the US investment community ‘ expects us to be profitable in the fourth quarter ; ’ he also said that customers were enthusiastic about the new Alpha-based systems , adding that five major database vendors had committed to supporting the RISC chip . |
| 12 | He declined to make projections about fourth quarter earnings but noted that the US investment community ‘ expects us to be profitable in the fourth quarter . ’ |
| 13 | This is how he shows us mercy and enables us to be merciful in turn to others . |
| 14 | Humility enables us to be wise about ourselves and to learn to resist our weaknesses more firmly . |
| 15 | It is Ego which drives us to be dutiful and fulfil false obligations . |
| 16 | Philosophy , if it is anything , is a linguistic activity which teaches us to be critical about linguistic categories . |