Example sentences of "we be [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We have n't got to the predicting level yet but the more familiar we are with the patterns , the better able we will be to make educated guesses . ’
2 Yeah it says , Romans ten , verse thirteen , for every everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah , will be saved , however , how will they call on him if in him they 'd not put faith , how in turn will they put faith in him , if him they 've not heard , how in turn will they hear without someone to preach , how in turn will they preach unless they 've been sent forth , just as it is written , how come we are at the feet of those who declare good news of good things well that 's more or less what we were saying is n't it ?
3 Even if there never will be any easy answers to such questions , and certainly not ones which could be read off from some kind of ‘ correct analysis ’ , it is still the case that the better informed we are about the complexities which underlie them the quicker we will be able to learn from our mistakes .
4 They are as worried as we are about the implications for the people of this country .
5 Once we are through the mountains and out on to the plain of the Moistr ’ River we may split into smaller groups , but I will decide who will be given individual commands when that arises . ’
6 Here we are on the hills , and it 's no better .
7 In any case , enveloped though it is in ingratiating compliments to us on how charming we are in the bosoms of our families , the indictment is quite firm and it is unsparing : ‘ Suffocating insular coziness ’ .
8 Flight We are in the mountains , on an expedition/fleeing a tyrant/trying to find somewhere safe to live after an earthquake has destroyed our town ; we come to a ravine .
9 As we are in the suburbs of the city , much of the land at the sides of the road is taken up with intensive agriculture .
10 When we speak of strong attachment or attraction between two people we are in the realms of love , the basis on which many people in our culture choose or are drawn towards their marriage partner .
11 We are in the agonies of househunting ’ , Bernard Shaw wrote to his friend H. G Wells in the spring of 1904 .
12 A new Bishop has just been appointed and now in 1992 we are in the throes of the same process .
13 We are in the depths of a terrible slump and hundreds of thousands of people are losing their jobs .
14 Clearly we are in the hands of a great master with this wallpaper ’ .
15 We are in the hands of Allah , ’ he said .
16 We had a good meeting today , the problems were explained to the interested parties and now we are in the hands of the Football League . ’
17 the main explanation why so long to reply is very much geared to the fact that we are in the hands of the Electricity Board for everything below the junction box on the street lighted column , if the bolt is in the cable , or a cable junction or in a circuit we are in the hands in another organization totally , who will have their own timescales and priority to responses .
18 the main explanation why so long to reply is very much geared to the fact that we are in the hands of the Electricity Board for everything below the junction box on the street lighted column , if the bolt is in the cable , or a cable junction or in a circuit we are in the hands in another organization totally , who will have their own timescales and priority to responses .
19 When it gets out of control , no matter how successful we are in the eyes of other people , in our heads that critical voice will tell us that we have failed .
20 Now we are in the years 1911 — 1920 , and Stravinsky , who was then in the throes of The Rite of Spring , found time , too , for his Two Poems of Balmont and the Three Japanese Lyrics .
21 You will have seen how alarmed we are by the plans to meet a vast increase in aggregates demand .
22 You will have seen how alarmed we are by the plans to meet a vast increase in aggregates demand .
23 We are like the sparks ; to grow , to be capable of greater joy we must go through and experience the suffering and the sorrow .
24 If we do not ask these questions , can we be sure we have not abandoned the search at too early a point , so that we are like the police officer who judges too soon that the death in a detective story was a suicide and not a murder ?
25 ‘ A lot of them can not come to us , because we are near the projects .
26 ‘ But we are against the problems it will cause on our road .
27 And while we 're at the police station I suggest that you have a word with someone there about the fact that you seem to be attracting some unwelcome attention .
28 ‘ We 'll buy some today when we 're at the shops . ’
29 But now we 're on the flats , no .
30 Are there any other suggestions for possible works while we 're on the arrangements and the programme ?
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