Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we finally make proposals to build a repository we must be confident they will satisfy safety standards that are amongst the toughest in the world . |
| 2 | He signalled to the waitress , then said : ‘ If you change your mind we might be able to get something at the airport . ’ |
| 3 | IN this chapter we shall be concerned with phenomena in which the main role is played by the current of charged particles . |
| 4 | In this chapter we will be concerned only with errors made by normal speakers . |
| 5 | This list of requirements might well succeed in eliminating all our ideas ; in practice we would be satisfied if two or three of these demands were catered for but very unhappy with a unit that failed on all nine aspects . |
| 6 | Just a small point on this amendment , er the forty thousand figure we should be aware could be a Conservative figure . |
| 7 | Because at the end of the day I think that a although it 's quite significant in terms of workload we might be able to address it elsewhere I mean I think the |
| 8 | They lie ahead , and since they can travel at twice our pace , we may be sure that for all the length of our march we shall be subject to ambush . |
| 9 | Yet even on this issue we must be cautious : marriage was an irrevocable step ; though death almost as often and as rapidly parted married couples in the twelfth century as it does in the twentieth , a prince might well take careful thought before he threw the dice , just as , even then , a prudent man might spend many years looking for the woman of his choice . |
| 10 | But when we talked about ‘ The House ’ — that was what we called it , there was never a name — we could imagine that just at the top of the stairs would be the Great Kitchen with its rows of gleaming copper pans hung up next to pheasants and hams and bunches of strange herbs — and through the kitchen window we 'd be able to see the long lawns of the garden where stone lions crouched with their heads between their paws and real peacocks screeched up at peacock shapes clipped out of hedges … |
| 11 | If he runs the country as well as he ran the campaign we 'll be alright . ’ |
| 12 | Following the pattern of development of municipal law we will be able to outlaw self-help in the enforcement of international law , remove the weapons of violence from the hands of those who might break the law and ensure that no state is a judge in its own cause when it comes to questions of legitimate self-defence or disputes about allegations of aggression . |
| 13 | In the general interest of certainty in the law we must be sure that there is some very good reason before we so act . |
| 14 | Well there is about the hall we might be able to read them that letter , from the new . |
| 15 | I wonder what you will say in answer to this letter ; I shall await your reply with some anxiety , for if our letters go into the waste paper basket we shall be unable to continue our many services for the benefit of those who are blind . |
| 16 | When applied to child abuse , then , it is assumed that if we can identify the characteristics associated with actual or potential abuse we will be able to identify and hence predict and prevent the problem . |
| 17 | ‘ And now we have got a full sales team we will be able to move further from home , ’ says Mr Murphy . |
| 18 | That 's the only place we can be safe . |
| 19 | As PLC we would be able to meet competition on equal terms . |
| 20 | There is a vacant night-porter 's job we might be able to fill on a temporary basis . |
| 21 | Well , Congress , on two separate occasions the Northern Region informed the C E C that without the attack on an annual conference we will be pleased to support secal sectionalization . |
| 22 | ‘ We hope that by the end of the conference we will be able to suggest some acceptable ways forward for the future , as well as having aired the problems . ’ |
| 23 | I could have called it k instead , but for reasons that become apparent in a moment we will be interested in the size of the square root of the number , so I have used |
| 24 | The other radicals who were present argued that they should join with the eleven newly elected people , ‘ reasoning that since we held the initiative we would be able to force the pace , drag some of them along in our wake and force the others quickly to resign ’ . |
| 25 | Erm now I I do n't think anybody 's suggesting that in er the Greater York new settlement we would be likely to achieve a large shopping mall anchored at both ends , one by Marks and Spencers er and the other by Fenwicks , or or or any o or bins or any other department store , so he must really understand the process and really what we talking about er er in North Yorkshire . |
| 26 | He also wrote that Chlodio , the first member of the dynasty about whose existence we can be certain , originally ruled in Dispargum , which he placed in Thuringia . |
| 27 | Our Development Steering Group met in April and because we were by then well into our financial year it was decided that with an all out effort on everyone 's part we should be able to raise the £8000 for 1988 . |
| 28 | What we do n't know is how much above the capping level we might be able to spend because we do n't yet know what are called the deminimus provisions . |
| 29 | So he knows — we know — we thought we knew , though of course we may be wrong — that you should n't make the same mistake as he did , going into acting . ’ |
| 30 | Of course we must be cautious about taking on difficult tasks as if to prove our social virility . |