Example sentences of "we [vb base] be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a society dominated by consumerism , every buying choice we make is a political act — by choosing to buy environmentally-friendly cleaning fluids and powders , avoiding aerosols and using lead-free petrol , we are not only minimizing our own impact on the environment but also registering a protest . |
| 2 | If you are working on an angled drawing board , the best kit we supply is a 150-4-PK dual action airbrush , which comes in a wooden box and has all three head and needle assemblies : fine , medium , and heavy-duty , to suit all the media you are likely to use . |
| 3 | Look , the question of what we want is a sociological one , which we answer by asking people , or by observing their behaviour . |
| 4 | What we want is a good mix of prisoners who come here wanting to take advantage of what we offer . |
| 5 | A spokesman for the Endangered Wildlife Trust said : ‘ It would be suicidal to interfere with one of Namibia 's primary sources of revenue — its wonderful and unique wildlife heritage — to overcome what we hope is a short-term problem of drought . ’ |
| 6 | By presenting a broad front , which encompasses the country 's official architectural watchdogs as well as the Campaign for Real Ale , we hope to alert both the general public and the brewing trade to what we believe is a growing and serious threat to our cultural heritage . |
| 7 | The themes we selected reflected our views of bulimia , which we believe is a disabling problem with elements that are unique to each woman 's experiences but which represent a way of dealing with life 's stresses . |
| 8 | As part of our mission requires this publication to keep its readers alert to the future of IBM and the wonders the company will doubtless work , we will — begging your understanding and forgiveness in what we feel is a justifiable revelation of inside information — part the cloak of secrecy that surrounds Hollywood 's dreams and IBM 's intentions in the interest of preparing you for tomorrow . |
| 9 | ‘ The guitar amp we use is a blue-speaker Vox AC30 , and the bass amp 's a really old Ampeg stack . |
| 10 | And the words we use are a small part of the process . |
| 11 | ‘ What we offer is a global approach ’ , answers BLM director Binyamin Abileah . |
| 12 | We believe that the assumptions we have made are reasonable and that the picture we paint is a valid one . |
| 13 | The reasons are numerous and sometimes complex but curiosity about the planet on which we live is a prime motivator . |
| 14 | We make a substantial troop contribution to the United Nations peace-keeping force in Cyprus , UNFICYP , which we think is a tangible measure of the efforts that we are giving to peace there . |
| 15 | We 've put those together , we 've looked at the staff that we need to administer that particular level of activity , and we 've come out with a figure that we think is a reasonable estimate , in fact I would go so far as saying , we think this is the lowest estimate that we can safely put forward , as to our needs for the coming year . |
| 16 | So this some sort of deal perhaps there which we think is a reasonable an and fair balance in the end of the committee . |
| 17 | It is this : the pain of loss corrupts our waking hours , what we think is a beautiful light from the imagination is the gleam of poison cast over the furnishings of our minds . |
| 18 | If we say , There 's somebody suspicious knocking about the flats , or , There 's a person on such a walk doing something we think 's a little bit er mysterious , then they 'll sen they 'll send somebody round as quickly as they can . |
| 19 | What we require is a National Emergency Government , but no two men I meet can agree how this can be formed . |
| 20 | For years we have been a low productivity low-wage plant and we have ended up losing our jobs and all the new investment opportunities . |
| 21 | ‘ Since we began in 1968 , we have been a driving force behind the development of more efficient heat transfer worldwide , ’ says HTFS Managing Director Dave Butterworth . |
| 22 | Indeed , we have been a vital source of money in these recessionary times . |
| 23 | What what what we have is a serious of local plans which include policies for protecting land and they are working perfectly well in achieving that objective . |
| 24 | Thus what we have is a first-rate account of the use made by capital of space in conflict with the working class which underplays the extent to which this use is a response to working-class organization . |
| 25 | What we have is a critical discourse , constituting the core of the student 's studies . |
| 26 | Here , where Schoenberg 's imagination is at its most wild and fantastic , all we have is a tepid , slack , poorly accented reading . |
| 27 | Now clearly that you know this is a the the model that we have is a daily one , it is a twelve hour model . |
| 28 | because I can imagine , looking at rehearsals , what we need are a few sort of easy things to start and end rehearsals with , or for rehearsals when we 're a bit thin on the ground , er |
| 29 | What we need is a perspicuous representation of our use of the word ‘ remember ’ , and of how we come to use words like ‘ yesterday ’ . |
| 30 | Mr relies on Hunt and Sellers nineteen ninety three , for all England reports one eighty and two O one , where the said , quote , what we need is a simple arithmetic calculation of the present value of future payments . |