Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] to be " in BNC.

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31 There are issues across Europe that we need to be aware of as a city .
32 But I think there 's something more important than funding that was realised at that Conference between Eastern and Western Local Authorities and that is that we need to be there to assist because we can assist .
33 There are some very important bits that we need to be making a a note of there , and many witnesses told lies against Jesus , but their stories did n't agree , they tried to find some evidence against him in order to put him to death Mark tells us , but they could n't find any .
34 There be NATO in the West and then there will be the ex-Soviet Union probably of some kind of military alliance in the East , and I think that we need to be in constant contact with one another discussing the changes that are going on .
35 So once we 're through that we need to be able to say okay , if there is a significant shift in the mix of work , then we need to be able to quantify exactly what that is .
36 One of the things that we need to be clear about is that erm computers are not unlike us .
37 Yes , I think it 's just to follow on from that erm about trusting children to give us the sort of clues that we need to be able to respond to , very often they do that in ways that are not directly associated perhaps with the anxiety that 's around , so that they may be expressing their anxiety by just generally difficult behaviour or by wetting the bed at night , or maybe being quite disruptive in their play , or provoking other children , and adults who are able to see that sort of behaviour as useful for information for us , so that we can respond appropriately , not out of anger and a erm judgemental sort of response , but in a way that we can support their anxiety by by not getting over excited and + and erm responding in a very aggressive way to the very aggression that they 're expressing as a result of their anxiety .
38 ‘ Again , the things that we see to be hard and dense must needs consist of particles more mutually hooked and must be deeply held compact by branch-like elements .
39 And that me and my old pal Norman Whiteside were on a collision course with him , that we needed to be split up .
40 The teachers , however , decided that we needed to be kept busy over the long weekend and gave us lots of work to do .
41 ‘ The idea that we want to be deal-makers all the time is something I would n't subscribe to , ’ he says , then adds , ‘ but we are only just starting ’ .
42 The reason for this is that we want to be able to attribute all changes of meaning on substitution to differences in the semantic properties of the items being substituted .
43 South Africa opened an " interests office " in Windhoek on Dec. 13 , 1989 , offering a full range of consular services , including issue of passports and visas ; the deputy head of the office said : " South Africa demonstrates by this that we want to be good neighbours and hope it will be possible to retain normal and friendly relations with the neighbouring state . "
44 Er , I also wanted to raise the issue of er the public service section in respect to er this because there 's something prob perhaps not actually tackled in the resolution but equally er important I think is that it 's actually getting the resources into er er down to the br branch level and er if we took this resolution literally , er what it would actually mean would be that er in har with harmonization of agreements we would be handing over er our majority on the manual workers , public service workers to , so obviously we got ta take this resolution very seriously , but consider its implications and the relevance of the word appropriate because I do n't think that we want to be er handed over to come July the first er single table bargaining where we are an absolute minority and where th th that union merge that 's taking place is obviously hostile to our union .
45 But eventually we 're gon na get people in , if the C E C take up our recommendations from Manchester 's one one five branch , that we 're gon na get people who represent the members of the G M B , the working class , the people that we want to be represented .
46 Now the more certain that we want to be about a particular inference , right , the smaller is the significance level .
47 Almost , but erm one could certainly arrive at a situation of the sort you 're imagining that we want to be sure that when we look at some very exotic phenomena in the past of the universe , which has no parallel on earth , erm or in our vicinity , how can we be sure that the laws of physics that we 've deduced on earth really apply ?
48 Often jealousy comes from making judgements based on assertions that we believe to be true but belie the reality of the situation .
49 This is an assumption that we believe to be fatally flawed , for the reasons we have outlined earlier .
50 Chris Bonington said ‘ This year we are hoping to attract teams from all over the country to an event that we believe to be a great way of linking people here with the millions still suffering from probably the world 's most disabling disease . ’
51 ‘ I am afraid , Prime Minister , the answer is that we have to be more efficient than our European competitors . ’
52 To be supporting people at a time of impending loss does not of itself mean that we have to be doing ‘ counselling ’ .
53 ‘ The political situation in FIFA , at the moment , is such that we have to be very careful of not seeing the majority move towards that idea . ’
54 I think the other issue is that we have to be defending erm , the family planning centres that are being closed down , like the forty or fifty in Glasgow , the thirteen in er Edinburgh , th the east of Scotland
55 We may not ask for help by weeping , but our bodies may become helpless so that we have to be helped .
56 What I do think that we have to be very cautious about , however , is the manner in which we determine the unexpressed ‘ purpose ’ of legislation .
57 This means that we have to be doubly careful to ensure that multicultural mathematics does not become a second-class mathematics curriculum for multiracial urban schools .
58 It is absurd that we have to be tied up in private Bill procedure in order to allow railway developments of the type that we are discussing tonight .
59 One of the factors which must be taken into account is that we have to be responsive to changes in our scientific activities in order to provide the necessary Library support for them .
60 The pace of change since the Second World War has been so swift that we have to be careful not to make assumptions about the past based on what we see around us every day .
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