Example sentences of "[prep] we [vb base] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of us resent being regarded as ‘ one of the herd ’ . |
| 2 | What none of us know is whether this drop indicates that doctors are leaving medicine altogether . |
| 3 | All that some of us ask is that ‘ GMC attested ’ doctors should be prepared to justify the treatments they use with evidence that is acceptable to their peers . |
| 4 | Most of us have been with our artists a very long time . |
| 5 | Most of us have been warned about the health risks of high blood pressure ( hypertension ) but few people are aware that in several European countries the opposite condition of low blood pressure ( hypotension ) is regarded as a medical problem . |
| 6 | In life , no doubt all of us have been inspired by the example of others — parents , teachers , friends . |
| 7 | For the hazard he now claims to recognise is essentially that which several of us have been patiently trying to explain to psychiatrists and others for the past twelve years or so and one which is now officially acknowledged in several overseas countries . |
| 8 | Most of us have been taught to see the Davy lamp as a scientific advance in that it saved the lives of miners because it would burn without causing explosions in a methane-rich atmosphere . |
| 9 | In the past most of us have been unaware of these signs and that is why our body ceases to function normally . |
| 10 | Indeed , all the millions of cells that make up each one of us have been formed by a process of successive cell divisions , during each of which the 46 chromosomes were first faithfully duplicated , and then separated to form two new daughter cells . |
| 11 | Most illuminating was the insight offered by a crew member who said , ‘ Most of us have been watching with our tongues hanging out . ’ |
| 12 | Many of us have been hurt in relationships , and a frequent form of defence is to bury your feelings . |
| 13 | " Now , " he continued , not looking at them , " the two men standing on either side of the gate in front of us have been there since morning . |
| 14 | It is no job for a shy mouse , and some of us have been sad to come across schools which have preferred to appoint inexperienced and nervous introverts rather than business-like mature librarians with a clear idea of their role . |
| 15 | Anyway , the three of us have been seen as cartoon characters for a number of years . |
| 16 | ‘ Some of us have been up since six-thirty and I like to read . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |
| 18 | But the number-one British favourite , the otter , is both rare and probably the most endearingly anthropomorphic of Britain 's animals , and most of us have been brought up on nostalgic , humanoid depictions of badgers , foxes , hedgehogs , squirrels and owls in our childhood literature . |
| 19 | Some of us have been holiday . |
| 20 | ‘ The three of us have been friends all our lives , Lanyon . |
| 21 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
| 22 | While alternative venues have been found for Nanci Griffiths ' concerts , the rest of us have been forced to imagine what might have been . |
| 23 | Some of us have been in here that long , we could have to be treated for exposure |
| 24 | Thousands of us have been laid low already with a flu virus which has surprised the experts by the speed with which it 's hit Scotland . |
| 25 | Two of us have been productive both in our personal lives and in the wider worlds of music and literature . |
| 26 | The structure was there and I think anybody who 's been in this business for any number of years , some of us have been in it longer than others er know that you actually need a structure er of that , of that little . |
| 27 | It 's alright us starting to go along the road of closures , but some of us have been here through it a lot , little bit longer than others and I think we have got to watch what we 're doing . |
| 28 | Erm , but it 's impressive that he now feels we should be allowed to spend more money to create jobs , because of course a lot of us have been trying to point that out for years to the governments which stupidly cap authorities so they ca n't actually carry out the infrastructure improvements that are needed to enable the economy and the society to function properly . |
| 29 | Most of us have seen formal syntax diagrams and Backus-Naur Form ( BNF ) definitions for languages , and many of us have been found them to be somewhat confusing . |
| 30 | But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’ |