Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [be] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 However sceptical we may be of the claims of medicine and its practitioners , we do , as Kosa said , place our faith in them when we can not cope by ourselves .
2 We should be on the steps right in front of the door . ’
3 Had Germany taken the ‘ purist ’ line after the war , we should be without the wonders of Bruchsal and the Residenz at Wurzburg , and the great churches of Nurnberg would look like the clean , well-designed — but totally anaemic - interiors of those in Kassel and Stuttgart .
4 England hooker Brian Moore insisted : ‘ After that sort of performance , we must be among the favourites .
5 Once again , we shall be in the hands of our foreign competitors .
6 All the hobbitic jokes are doing , then , is to reflect and by intention deflect the modern inhibition over high styles which we and they share ; if we were not embarrassed by the hobbits , in other words , we would be by the heroes .
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