Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] we [vb base] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 We 're here because we want to see Earth Commander . ’
2 If they do , it may not be long before we have to pay the price .
3 But Mr Bliss is right that we have to assume that the abductors are politically motivated terrorists — ‘ '
4 Now , you , you could have the linear ordering that 's an alternative proposal erm , but then you 've actually got erm you 've got to come up with a kind of proper account of these structures of how they come about and of the relation and then you 've got to check it out against all the other data and all I can say is as it happens , I 've tried that and it does n't work but that 's only and we want to find out if you can see that the quite a long way .
5 We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now , yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we need to maintain three Trident systems and possibly build a fourth at a total cost of more than £23 billion .
6 ‘ It 's just that we have to see the hearth if we 're to know you 're in an old farmhouse .
7 This is partly because we need to understand and classify the vast amounts of pottery recovered from excavations at archaeological sites , and partly because of the high success rate of such analytical projects .
8 This act of stealth and deceit is far from straightforward , and it is now that we begin to see some of the more subtle and complex adaptations of the cuckoo to its parasitic way of life .
9 Yet it is here that we have to distinguish most clearly between a technical invention and a technology , and then further between a technology and its actual or possible social relations .
10 ‘ Could you please look around your yard/station/siding to see if it is there before we have to cancel trains because of lack of locomotives . ’
11 Yet the evidence is there if we care to look for it .
12 The possibility 's there if we wish to take that up .
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