Example sentences of "we be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 How many years have we been flying that route ?
2 As was made clear in the debate today , there is agreement — on both sides , I think — on the latter parts of the Bill dealing with higher education , although here , too , we are providing reasonable time for consideration in Committee .
3 That is why we have ensured , through our know-how funds and all the other means at our disposal , that we are providing economic advice and sound advice for training members of the former republics to get on with the job of economic reform .
4 We are providing ample Committee time for consideration of evidence of the type about which the hon. Gentleman is talking .
5 We are providing medical treatment , food and water , ’ Lt-Col Smith said .
6 The section engineer , who can also be a project coordinator , a as I 've explained , is responsible for directing the group of project engineers and for overviewing all aspects of the project within his section , to ensure that they are technically adequate t to ensure they are technically adequate , have quality and we are providing safe service to the client .
7 We are providing more support than ever before — £14 for every £10 spent in 1979 , after allowing for inflation .
8 Now I understand er that you know we are providing public service here and we have got allow for public access but the cost of the council of having all its officers outside of this building for over er two hours must have been absolutely horrendous and I would have thought this would be an area where improving security ought to be a high priority so what are you going to do about it ?
9 If we are to take this speech as accurate reportage within the conventions of deathbed narratives , is there not something a little remarkable in Leapor 's assuring her friend and patron that she has always loved her father , though never so much as now , when she is dying ?
10 ‘ Please get stationery ready , Matron has been told we are to take another batch of severely wounded soldiers .
11 But , we are using actual income to measure expected income , and so a positive value for v t will suggest that there has been a rise in expected income with no accompanying rise in consumption expenditure .
12 At Equifax , we are using specific credit behaviour overlaid with demographic characteristics to provide ‘ Power Data ’ list overlays .
13 However , as we are using incremental change instead of wiping the slate clean and trying to move to a new system , we are avoiding huge extra costs at one fell swoop and also avoiding creating a system in which there would be many losers as well as gainers at the point of change .
14 Consequently , the d.c. voltage ( after rectification by D1 and D2 ) which appears at the junction of C5 and R5 will be typically between 1V and 2V ( remember that we are using half-wave rectification ) .
15 Although the decision to enter a ‘ courtship ’ is based on sufficient common interest ( we are using this term to include values and tastes ) , the purpose of courtship is to explore , ensure and expand that base of common interest .
16 Clearly , if we are to explain such interpretation we will need more than our list of cohesive devices .
17 Clearly , if we are to explain such interpretation we will need more than our list of cohesive devices .
18 Eve Bendall ( 1976 ) in ‘ Teaching for reality ’ states that ‘ … the major part of written answers to nursing questions bear little or no relationship to the nursing performance of the writer in 80% of trainees ’ , and she goes on to say ‘ … we are producing trained nursing staff who are ( through no fault of their own ) woefully lacking in many of the skills they need . ’
19 Right the medical side erm we are producing medical practice booklets all right .
20 This year we are producing further information on all research projects licensed since our inception .
21 If we are to combat any attempt of the Right to exploit issues involving sexuality in order to hang onto power , we can not afford to neglect the virtue of solidarity — which involves a certain restraint concerning our feelings bout what other people do in bed .
22 If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater .
23 Suppose we are given some outline drawings of axes .
24 ‘ If the process is allowed to achieve a more relaxed rhythm of its own and we are given enough time to handle the international consequences , the Soviet leadership probably could live with the kind of confederal links between the two Germanys which are under discussion now . ’
25 Sometimes , as when a plate of a fossil shows its matrix in detail , or that of a fish shows the river where it was caught , we are given more information than we needed — though such details may help to balance the tone of the plate and thus have an aesthetic function .
26 We are breaking new ground here .
27 , spinnerette manager at Coventry , said : ‘ We are breaking new ground with this agreement .
28 authority will have the clout to pull this sort of thing together but again , we are debating regional government , and we are n't debating unitary authorities .
29 There are also differences between the states on the ability to stand as a candidate and the measure that we are debating this evening will ensure that in respective elections to the European parliament there is a greater degree of harmonisation .
30 ‘ Are you happy , ’ I ask you , ‘ about the way we are pursuing this investigation ? ’
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