Example sentences of "[adv] we [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was extraordinary , but suddenly we seemed to be on quite different terms . |
| 2 | So perhaps we need to be more concerned with providing the right environment and with removing constraints than with creating ‘ master plans ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ We try to plan well in advance , but obviously we have to be flexible . |
| 4 | So today puts us back into third place if we win and and obviously we want to be there . |
| 5 | And so we seem to be back to the idea that pragmatics concerns whatever aspects of meaning are not included in semantics . |
| 6 | Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know |
| 7 | So we need to be able to address those different requirements . |
| 8 | I think that people need to know what we are providing so we need to be monitoring , continually monitoring that this is actually at the times it 's meeting people 's needs and I 'm sure that we will be hearing from members if it was n't , and we 're not I mean it seems to me that the level of services provided now is very satisfactory and we should n't y'know , obviously give our officers support to continue . |
| 9 | So we need to be home by half past four then ? |
| 10 | So we need to be looking forward , but we ought to be looking short-term , so the best way to look at objectives , is to look it in the short-term , which is in fact , year one if you like , medium term , years two and three , and long-term , years four and five . |
| 11 | So we need to be clear as to what we define as violence , and how we see violence in society . |
| 12 | I 'd of thought so we have to be there , down there at eleven |
| 13 | Thus we need to be especially careful what we do with young horses so that the habits they establish are in their interests and not to their detriment . |
| 14 | By tonight we want to be in a position to win the match in the Singles … " |
| 15 | it is radical because at the time when I took over we needed to be radical . |
| 16 | Are not we entitled to be told the whole truth , as revealed by Greenpeace , which is that the total lifetime cost of Trident will be more than £23 billion ? |
| 17 | And having earned more and kept more we needed to be good housekeepers . |
| 18 | And when benefit had to be cut off we resolved to be more generous in tapering off payments in cases where hardship would otherwise result . |
| 19 | Another couple of lads joined me at Middlesbrough station and off we went to be gentlemen 's gentlemen . |
| 20 | If ever we had to be away for a night , Shanti used to go to spend the night at Mavis 's house , and regarded it as a very great treat . |
| 21 | From here on we aim to be a high-productivity high-wage plant . |
| 22 | Later we hope to be the first offshore contractor with a competent core crew accredited to national standards . |
| 23 | If we were all hay fever prone , then whenever we happened to be in a place where the pollen count was high , our eyes would start streaming and our noses running . |
| 24 | Also we seem to be awfully short of knives . |
| 25 | But clearly we have to be careful to ensure that evidence for one phenomenon is not , either by accident or design , adduced in respect of another . |
| 26 | That 's right , I do n't think they did have a chance first half and we created maybe eight or nine chances , you know , really good clear chances and really we need to be putting more that one away and we need to kill the game off first half when we 're so superior in that sort of performance , you know . |
| 27 | All that we have described so far we believe to be common to visionary leadership in general . |
| 28 | Now we appear to be engaged in a business venture with the threat of a take-over . ’ |
| 29 | He ended his presentation of forty-five minutes precisely , with the words , ‘ We have been the number one in the United States for many years , now we aim to be the number one in Europe , in South America , the Middle East … . ’ |
| 30 | Now we have to be careful with the word ‘ redemptive ’ because in a final way only Christ 's sufferings can be deemed truly redemptive ; but I feel that we can make guarded use of the term . |