Example sentences of "we [verb] be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lads we met were a group who choose to meet with Father Patrick weekly . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In this age of specialization , what we got is a lot of brilliant mechanics working four to five years behind theoretic technology , and a few abstracted theorists working out in the unknown and each disagreeing with the other . ’ |
| 4 | All we got is a piece of paper , which probably on that one tells the council they recommend approval of this . |
| 5 | All we got was a small discount because we bought such a huge quantity . |
| 6 | He guesses that it is something to do with education and reflects wryly that ‘ all we got was a bible and a thick ear ’ . |
| 7 | And all we got was a lousy phone call three weeks later . |
| 8 | What we got was a Budget to try to bribe voters with borrowed money . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At the end of each week , which we suggest is a Saturday , you will need a little extra time to review your progress , and work out your weight loss for that week . |
| 11 | I think what we needs is a |
| 12 | In The man whom we visited is a cousin of mine the clause whom we visited is adjectival , qualifying the man . |
| 13 | The last thing we want is a fight now . " |
| 14 | Although the last thing we want is a return to rigid central control , the NHS does need some coordination to ensure that scarce resources are used to best advantage and not wasted by the unsupervised duplication of facilities . |
| 15 | What we want is a dictatorship . |
| 16 | The last thing that we want is a return to the spend , spend , spend — tax , tax , tax policies of the Labour party . |
| 17 | Look , the question of what we want is a sociological one , which we answer by asking people , or by observing their behaviour . |
| 18 | What we want is a good mix of prisoners who come here wanting to take advantage of what we offer . |
| 19 | Yeah all we want is a turkey . |
| 20 | my Lord the fifth point in relation to question three , C , we 've always understood this to be a threshold bond , we 've concentrated on the words capable in law in relation to section fourteen , there are two ways of viewing this and your Lordship will clearly have to take a view on whether er one or both of these is a proper issue under clause three , C one , first of all is , is , is section fourteen itself capable of restricting the competition , is it in itself a restriction of competition , well we took your Lordship the C B R case , the case of the commission in which an ouster clause was held to infringe article eighty five , because of it 's interrelationship with the other restrictions and so section fourteen is bad if the other restrictions are made out as a matter of competition law , that we say is a question of fact and we therefore answer that part of three C by saying it 's not capable in law |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | I think it did have a lot to do with the status that being different conferred , for in spite of the austerity of our childhood , we believed that we were better than other people , the food we ate being a mark of this , because our mother told us so — so successfully that even now I have to work hard at actually seeing the deprivations . |
| 23 | The closet to Ireland we came were a few students in college , and even they seemed to have interest in politics . " |
| 24 | She told me she was sorry we were going , and we 'd been a credit to the school . |
| 25 | If we had , if we 'd been a bit more rigorous with our criteria , our group would have got smaller . |
| 26 | We if we 'd been a minute later we 'd have |
| 27 | We can place some detecting devices , photographic plates or Geiger counters , say , which will register whether the electron has arrived at A or B. If we analyse such an experiment what we obtain is a chain of correlations : if the electron 's spin is " up " , then it will be deflected to A , and then the Geiger counter at A will click or if the electrons spin is " down " , then it will be deflected to B , and then the Geiger counter at B will click . |
| 28 | S Group was led by Group Captain Donald Bennett , who we heard was a most formidable gentleman from ‘ down under ’ and who was mostly to be found at Group Headquarters , Huntingdon or at Wyton RAF Station , a few miles away . |
| 29 | ‘ In the end , he put a cartridge in his mouth and the next thing we heard was a shot and the police rushed in . ’ |
| 30 | Elsewhere , JESUS JONES ’ jovial MIKE EDWARDS — a man never ashamed to fill his wallet up at the drop of a hat — could be heard regaling the select with details of his latest project , which we hear is a remix of a BON JOVI track . |