Example sentences of "we be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BACK FROM BEYOND : Have we been here before ? |
| 2 | Have n't we been here before ? |
| 3 | how long have we been here ? |
| 4 | Forty five minutes so how long we been here ? |
| 5 | have we been round ? |
| 6 | Never had we been so pleased to see a house and a coal fire , and to have a warm welcome ! |
| 7 | Never before have we been so potent , not even in New York when we were combing nurses out of our hair . |
| 8 | Have n't we been home loads to times to where Granny and all your cousins … |
| 9 | The way in which some of the subsidies work is ludicrous , but had we been there at the beginning , we might have been able to reform it so that it could work to our advantage . |
| 10 | Had we been as free from the fetters of manpower planning as Field when we negotiated the new deal the problem could have been solved overnight . |
| 11 | oh the cupboards are brilliant it 's just the fronts are so dated and the man in these reports in the house said erm , kitchen is satisfactory but it needs updating and it was only about seven years ago it was brand new , no , not seven , have we been in then , no eight , so nine or something , I know the fronts need sorting out . |
| 12 | Oh and then of course , change the subject completely , we 've just , we 've been out this morning , have we been out this morning ? |
| 13 | I did not believe a newspaper should be part of the apparatus of the state ; we are not a totalitarian society . |
| 14 | Playing Richard is so bound up with physical attitude , and I think that as actors we are not well enough equipped to meet that kind of physical thinking in that kind of role . |
| 15 | As we examine the dominant beliefs of the two alliances , it must be stressed that we are not looking at beliefs possessed by each and every person who identifies to a greater or lesser extent with either set of traditions . |
| 16 | But may it not be the case , he suggested , that images have already died and we are not aware of it ? |
| 17 | We are not shown the acres of car park , the oversized modern restaurant extension and the gutted interior , knocked together from what were once intimate old rooms . |
| 18 | When we are not being accused of ignoring the vernacular pub tradition with the abomination of café-bars and so on we stand accused of creating ‘ pastiches ’ when we get involved with restorations — no matter how conscientiously researched a project . |
| 19 | ‘ We are not an hotel . ’ |
| 20 | No , you say , all in control , we are not going to sleep together . |
| 21 | We are not going to have an affair , said Lucy , hand shaking a little on her cigarette . |
| 22 | But if we are free citizens ’ — he paused on the word , feeling it alien but unable to think of another — ‘ if we are not slaves , we must have liberty to say ‘ No , we have no dispute with France — we have business here at home which matters more than anything else on earth — we will not learn to play with swords , or blow out brains with bullets . ’ |
| 23 | We are not free people under this Constitution — not any longer , if we ever were . |
| 24 | ‘ So long as we are not like generals to them . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We are not asking for names , Mr Cameron . |
| 26 | But even if treating our awareness of our own mental states as topic-neutral plausibly explains why we are not aware of our brains as such when we are aware of our mental states , it does not explain why knowing fully about the brain does not include knowledge of the nature of experience . |
| 27 | As I argued , given the holism of the mental , we are not going to succeed in analysing these conceptions in terms of some complex causal interplay between determinate representations . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , though , we are not very much closer to a genuine explanation of amnesia in functional terms that we were twenty years ago . |
| 29 | And we are discovering that we are not interested in exploring the finer points of alienation with tea cuppery , but that the theatre can be a bridge of bone between sickness and health — that our language will somehow always be on the edge of poetry and that image and metaphor are our natural tools — they best express whole worlds and histories in collision with each other . |
| 30 | On the other hand they are telling us we are not playing for the money but the love of the sport . |