Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 We 'll have to be up early . ’
2 It 's going to be a hard day tomorrow , and we 'll have to be here early .
3 yeah , we 'll have to be there about two minutes four
4 So we 'll need to be twice as cunning and four times as resourceful .
5 Well w we said we 'd prefer to be upstairs
6 ‘ No , but we 'd like to be there at the beginning so that we could if we want to , then run away , ’ Eve explained .
7 then we 'd have to be back for eleven , ca n't , I do n't know what 's gon na happen to the dog
8 It was a matter of time , most steps had been taken , ‘ We are leaving St-Jean to avoid talk ; we shall have to be reasonably discreet for the next few months or so . ’
9 ‘ We have considerable respect for the abilities of PDVSA and its affiliates — we shall have to be extremely flexible and creative in finding ways to assist .
10 We shall need to be more flexible in the way we handle retirement , and as generous as we can be to what is fortunately a declining proportion of the retired — that is , those who rely entirely on their State pension .
11 This we shall see to be as true of man as of any of his relatives in the animal kingdom .
12 As a beginning , it may be said that the conception of a lexical unit which will be adopted here is not very different from that of a traditional lexicographer , although we shall try to be more explicit than lexicographers are wont to be .
13 But even with the camera occasionally disconnected we realized that we would have to be incredibly lucky to overpower a guard in our room without alarming whoever was upstairs .
14 The symbol for the escarpment on the map was as small as a greenfly and easy to misinterpret but we would have to be more careful in future .
15 I cant see why we would have to be more careful even if we were ‘ official ’ .
16 We were almost into November now and I did n't need to be an expert navigator to work out from the charts , and the Admiralty Pilot lying open on the chart table , that to be into the south of the Weddell Sea in time to take maximum advantage of the summer loosening of the pack we would need to be away not later than end-November .
17 Even if our ears could respond to sounds of this pitch , we would need to be very close by to eavesdrop on their conversations .
18 There will , of course , be occasions when the purpose calls for increased specificity of type : we would need to be more knowledgeable about the precise meaning of bronze , for example , in the context of a textbook on metallurgy .
19 An assertiveness training programme involves a number of stages : first , understanding the underlying principles of the approach ; second , recognizing different styles of communicating ( passive , aggressive , assertive ) , third , identifying specific situations where we would like to be more assertive , whether at work , in public , among friends , or at home ; fourth , to prepare , rehearse , or role play a different , more assertive response ; and fifth , to transfer that behaviour back into the real world .
20 We will continue to be so .
21 So even if other people pay for it , we will have to be pretty convinced that it will be successful .
22 However , there is no doubt that we will have to be very vigilant .
23 We will have to be very sure that we know what we 're talking about when we meet them to persuade them that we need their funds more and we can make better use of them and we hope to raise around half of that twenty five million pounds from them .
24 Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told cabinet colleagues , ‘ We can not do very much , but we can seem to be very busy — and that is half the battle nowadays . ’
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