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

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1 DO WE THINK WE ARE GOOD AT SEX ?
2 This loss is regained while we are asleep at night .
3 We 're good at problem solving , we 're really chal , excuse me , we 're really challenged when we have the right amount of stress for us .
4 erm that 's a clumsy , and perhaps you might say a rather German way of putting it , but seeing religion as one of the things people do , one of the things that we can understand now that we 're good at understanding history — we can understand how society works , we can understand that a person is interested in religion for psychological reasons because he is a certain kind of person , comes from a certain kind of family , and so from all sorts of angles religion is being understood and the cost is that it 's not such an absolute thing as before .
5 ‘ In fact , if we 're busy at work I can see that having to try and explain all the complexities of the London Metal Exchange to someone who knows absolutely nothing about it is going to be a real drag . ’
6 remind us we were rotten at Maths and Science .
7 One big plus was that Rachel was off enjoying herself and we were close at hand .
8 We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church .
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