Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb mod] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we could have been celebrating the first golden anniversary of the 1,000 Reich boasted about by Hitler . |
| 2 | Final question perhaps we should raise is well is there actually gon na be a need for it in two three years time down the track ? |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps we 'd have been all right anyway , ’ he added . |
| 4 | ‘ If he had walked away we would have been left with 11 men to their 10 . ’ |
| 5 | If President Mobuto had been killed tonight we 'd have been crucified . ’ |
| 6 | Still we might have been very different . |
| 7 | The most we can do is expect Owen everywhere , and be strong enough to match him wherever he strikes . |
| 8 | Erm but to do , but like I say , if you 've got somewhere that could just er er you see , cos I mean what , the most we can do is fifty |
| 9 | The most we can claim is that his social situation and his physical deterioration induces in him a condition that approximates the classical clinical picture given of schizophrenia . |
| 10 | The most we can get is convincing parallelisms between the two and the fact that some parallelisms are much more difficult than others and have hitherto not been attempted is no reason for denying that a choreographic genius like Massine has the right to attempt this . |
| 11 | The most we can get is some idea of the world view the one hand , impossible to say on the other and most importantly , what it is not possible not to say or avoid saying/implying ’ ( personal communication ) . |
| 12 | The most we can say is that if there are still economies of scale unexploited , the industry is a natural monopoly . |
| 13 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |
| 14 | ‘ But surely we ought to have been able to find some sort of compromise … ’ |
| 15 | So maybe we would have been great to have the skills before I did it , and that 's why I am on the course this Erm , the only thing that I can think of that 's erm , something that I do believe and I am committed to getting changed , is er , a system in our offices , in one of our departments , but I do have erm , authority over the people that I would be talking to , so , I know at the end of the day , I could just say , do it , but I 'm trying to get them to believe in changing erm , and just sort of certain benefits of it . |
| 16 | Had they , after nineteen-eighteen , learnt the lessons that were to be learnt , then we might have been spared Hitler and the Second World War . |
| 17 | If the freefall had gone better on Sunday then we would have been untouchable by this stage , but as it is the French are still ver close and their shooting will be very good . |
| 18 | If we had scored five or six more goals which the statistics prove was possible , then we would have been going to Sydney next year . |
| 19 | then we 'd have been alright . |
| 20 | We are a proud nation and at least we should have been put on stand-by . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We 're desperately sick for Colin and now the least we can do is make the play-offs and win them for him , ’ said Whittingham . |
| 22 | She wants to escape from home , and the least we can do is to let her stay here for a while . |
| 23 | I said to Robin , ‘ If its owner has the nerve to call it that , the least we can do is back it . ’ |
| 24 | The least we can do is dress you for effect . |
| 25 | The least we can do is plant a few trees in return . |
| 26 | I thought of you every day , of how we could have been together , and now we may start again . ’ |
| 27 | Instead we might have been strangers . |
| 28 | Our lives are miserable as we remember times when we might have been kinder , we might have been more loving , less impatient . |
| 29 | All those years when we could have been together . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ They helped him many a time to keep his head above water or else we should have been in a poor way . ’ |