Example sentences of "be a [noun] we [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm we 've we 've actually developed social housing really rather as it 's been an opportunity we 've grabbed it and we 've done it , you know , some of it 's been very very good an and nobody 's knocking that but I think it is time that we took stock and actually had a a proper policy and a proper strategy on sa on social housing . |
| 2 | It just seems to be a conversation we 've had before . |
| 3 | being a charity we have to raise money for what we need and the comic will do that as well as teach youngsters about wildlife |
| 4 | Rachel fidgets round the room like it 's a hotel we got to leave by ten . |
| 5 | It 's a threat we 've taken very seriously . |
| 6 | It 's a reputation we 've kept to the present day . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a possibility we have to face . ’ |
| 8 | Maybe that 's a mistake we 've made and that 's the way we 've turned it round looking at people . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a problem we 've got to address without any further delay as it 's the same players who are being booked in practically every other game . |
| 10 | But again we also need to work out how much has been spent on claims and E W S on on work which is er higher than budgets but we can say okay , that 's not a direct result of deteriorating productivity , that 's a direct result of , of problems we 've got with temps and so on , that 's a problem we 've got with increased , increased work levels . |
| 11 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled shallows of the ocean . |
| 12 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled depths of the ocean . |
| 13 | It 's a move we have practised so many times in training and I always send them over the bar . |
| 14 | It 's a risk we 've got to take , anyway . ’ |
| 15 | It 's a prize we have to take . |
| 16 | Mr Hart said : ‘ It 's a game we play to help me get ideas to help pay the rent . |
| 17 | It 's a shame we had to pay 14 quid to watch them . |
| 18 | Okay Chair , that 's just a note that it er , it 's a matter we 've raised with this Committee on several occasions in the past , and getting close I think to being able to present some detailed figures as to the likely costs in future , of firemen 's pension sch scheme to Shropshire County Council . |
| 19 | It 's a code we 've used before . |
| 20 | He says Oxford is a wonderland we wanted to sum up the traditional image with dreaming spires and punting on the Cherwell . |
| 21 | Bromley says : ‘ This is a road we have to go down because , once again , it is the clear demand of the market . |
| 22 | ( This is a policy we have pursued with all our children , to answer as truthfully as we could just the question asked . |
| 23 | I think if we harbour any hopes of eventually overhauling the scum this is a game we have to win . |
| 24 | Mr Peter Bonsall of the London Borough of Islington 's Parks Department , says , " This is a site we have fought hard to retain . |
| 25 | The word workfare is a term we have imported from America , the America , where if you are unemployed , homeless , you 're a scrounger , a drop-out a no-good , something less than human . |
| 26 | So We 've got the right policies , I believe in Europe , I 'm sure you round the room here tonight do , it 's an issue we 've got to raise . |
| 27 | It 's an issue we need to monitor but the best way forward is for us to do that under the labour movement . |
| 28 | The government guidance er in P G three makes it very clear now that it 's an issue we do have to address and if we do n't for land requirement . |
| 29 | Erm , and to look at the stories which are of a different time but are still relevant to our time and place , they have a , have a message for us , even though they were set a hundred years ago , they 've still got something to say us , so I think that 's an area we need to explore . |
| 30 | That is an approach we need to encourage here . |