Example sentences of "we [be] [prep] be [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if we are to be able to talk to our children about this at all , then we must have some understanding of the choices and risks they face . |
| 2 | For evidently we need both reflexive and non-reflexive polyadic predicates , as well as monadic predicates , if we are to be able to describe at all adequately the world around us . |
| 3 | It will be needed , above all , if we are to be able to read the historical record . |
| 4 | But , as we saw , this will not work ; for if we are to be able to make significant identifying references to qualities , we need a distinction between qualities and their existentially unique instances , and this raises the problem of determining the precise ontological status of such instances : i.e. what such instances are , and how they can be identified and distinguished from each other . |
| 5 | The more distant one of those later groups is , the more likely we are to be able to construct a counter-example ; as is revealed in our own example where = you are a brain in a vat ; |
| 6 | The more highly constrained and ritualised the genre , the more likely we are to be able to identify norms . |
| 7 | We shall now see that in order to account for changes in the modern world this evolutionary background of the ego and superego is by no means irrelevant ; on the contrary , we must take it very seriously if we are to be able to understand what is going on around us . |
| 8 | If we are to be able to select the most appropriate selling opportunities , the information on our database must be as comprehensive as possible . |
| 9 | In turn , if we are to be able to pay for these commodities , we must export . |