Example sentences of "we be [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path . |
| 2 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path ; certainly the comments of passers-by were very favourable , most saying it was high time something was done , that the path was in a shocking state , etc . |
| 3 | Chief executive Jim Greenwood said : ‘ The work can not be done in a close season , so we are looking to start it next February and have the new stand ready for August , 1994 . |
| 4 | We are looking to make it simple for people . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Basically , we are looking to discuss it further with Foinavon and that will be the recommendation we will be putting to the general committee of the club . ’ |
| 6 | We are called to resist him ( 1 Pet 5:9 ) , not to know or understand him . |
| 7 | In other words , we are not forgiven because we keep the law : but once we are forgiven we are called to keep it . |
| 8 | In everyday speech , we do not pronounce words as clearly as we do when we are asked to say them in isolation . |
| 9 | For MAS , whilst the disclaimer will state what we have and have not done , we may still be associated with the data if we are asked to present it to potential buyers or if our name is mentioned in the document . |
| 10 | But if we are tempted to call it ‘ pain ’ , what is the content of the suggested check on this temptation , the check which we operate in order to see whether it is justified ? |
| 11 | As evolutionists we are tempted to see it as the only kind of robustness that matters . |
| 12 | ‘ We are writing to ask you whether you would like to receive junk mail ? ’ |
| 13 | Wallace said : ‘ We insist that Aaron is a bone fide player , just like all the rest of us , and we are determined to have him in our team . ’ |
| 14 | Lawrence added : ‘ It must be stressed that we do not see ball-tampering in our domestic game as a serious problem , but we are determined to stamp it out . |
| 15 | We have brought down interest rates and we are determined to keep them low . |
| 16 | We have had remarkably good figures over the past year and we are determined to beat them in 1992 . |
| 17 | We are determined to make it work — the last thing I want is to be a laughing stock among local farmers if I fail . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That 's why we are seeking to reduce them . |
| 19 | Tamburlaine is in fact a very complex character , far removed from the ‘ barbarous ’ and ‘ incivil ’ man that we are led to believe he is by Mycetes , Cosroe and Meander . |
| 20 | Since considerations of probability are to the fore in one part of actual scientific practice bearing on causation , and there is little attempt to go beyond them , and there is to hand the Probability Calculus , we are invited to take it that causation can come to no more than probability . |
| 21 | With the Act , the youth justice team took on report writing , and we are managing to get them done . ’ |
| 22 | It is no use whatsoever introducing bait at irregular intervals , for the lesson we are trying to teach them will not sink in if we give them time to forget in between each baiting session . |
| 23 | We would certainly like to him to come out of his own free will and that 's what we are trying to persuade him to do for his own good . |
| 24 | I would n't want my son to lose touch with the notions of right and wrong that we are trying to give him . ’ |
| 25 | We are trying to connect you |
| 26 | ‘ We are trying to keep it a surprise for our honoured guests . ’ |
| 27 | So we are trying to introduce him to the larger world . |
| 28 | We are trying to drag them here so as to get direct investment and to get foreign capital without incurring foreign debt . |
| 29 | So we are attempting to do it ourselves . |
| 30 | We are not told that these are part of a continuing ritual , but we are encouraged to treat them as such by the similarity present in the three meetings which are connected with each other further by the Shakespearian language applied to each . |