Example sentences of "[subord] we [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would it be too much trouble , ’ she enquired sarcastically , ‘ to tell me exactly where we 'll be this time tomorrow ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I hoped you 'd say that — why do you think I brought you here , where we can be alone ? ’ |
| 3 | The identification of an acquisition candidate does not , of course , mean that the company is for sale although we would be pleased to approach its management on your behalf without disclosing your identity if this would be your wish . |
| 4 | That Wednesday is in the school holiday , although we shall be continuing . |
| 5 | But although we may be confident that a gradient exists , and influences subsequent development , we usually have no idea what it is a gradient of , and rather little idea of how genes are actually switched on and off . |
| 6 | Most of the time , though , we are unlucky : the supernova remnant is invisible to us , although we may be fortunate enough to observe the expanding cloud of gases and other matter receding from the pulsar . |
| 7 | Inner/outer Face : This is the way we think others see us — although we may be wrong . |
| 8 | I agree with the hon. Member for Cardiff , North that , although we must be involved in protecting the environment nationally and internationally , in the end , it is a local issue , crucial to those whom we represent . |
| 9 | This may well extend our understanding of alliances on the larger scale ( Huggett forthcoming ) although we should be wary of assuming that the sources of the material are relevant to the question of alliances with all of England . |
| 10 | Although we should be wary of taking all such accounts at face value , since party feeling often ran sufficiently high amongst local inhabitants that little encouragement was needed for them to come to blows , such practices certainly did go on . |
| 11 | ( The differences in definitions adopted by different countries would not affect the broad pattern of international comparison , although we should be sceptical about small variations between countries . ) |
| 12 | A further problem is that although we should be glad that speed control measures are encouraged more strongly than they were in 1977 , they are only applied to very small developments . |
| 13 | I have been assured that the décor will be completed by the end of July , so we shall be able to keep to the schedule we have arranged and open in September . |
| 14 | My father has agreed to let me study at the university , so we shall be able to spend a lot of time together . ’ |
| 15 | The army are faxing me regimental lists , so we might be able to track down a contemporary or two . ’ |
| 16 | Now I 'm going to pull down a whole pile of these things and make a nest out of them so we 'll be warm and cosy until we 're rescued from each other . ’ |
| 17 | But there was n't normally storage problems , normally had spare , seep out of the ground in , so we 'll be alright . |
| 18 | She 's got have a clean out tomorrow so we 'll be able to tidy up all again . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've sent for a breakdown lorry-from a garage , so we may be able to salvage the car before it goes right under . ’ |
| 20 | It is clearly impossible to discuss this subject exhaustive here , so we will be content with illustrating only three contrasting methods . |
| 21 | If you could send us your real address , Anne , along with your ‘ distinctive ’ signature so we can be sure it 's you , a year 's subscription will be yours … |
| 22 | Our own Ian Smith is drawing up posters for us so we can be sure they will be eye-catching . |
| 23 | I would like to see contractors ' charging policy completely reviewed , so we can be sure that we are not locked into ‘ historic costing methods ’ that fail to recognise the considerable advances in main and service laying technology . |
| 24 | On other occasions something datable may by chance have been left with the hoard , as with the hoard of gold and silver coins deposited during the English Civil War at Breckenbrough in North Yorkshire ; the pot in which the hoards were found also contained two receipts for requisitioned cheese dating to 17 January 1644 , so we can be confident that the hoard was deposited in the run-up to the Battle of Marston Moor in July of that year . |
| 25 | What we need to know is where they 're heading for — so we can be ready for them . |
| 26 | The other option would be expanding the villages themselves , and we find that that would be equally harmful , so we 'd be opposed to any significant additional development in our district over and above that that 's that 's been assumed in that table . |
| 27 | ‘ She may be relying on our efforts , you know , so we must be sure we do n't let her down . ’ |
| 28 | She put down her needle and thread and went on , her voice calm with conviction , ‘ Of course we do not know what God plans for us , so we must be ready to accept His will in all things , but sometimes prayer alone will heal the one who is ill and this is the best way . ’ |
| 29 | Spartak drew 0-0 at home in the last round and won 5-1 away so we must be careful . |
| 30 | We talked of toxic wastes ; the possibility of there ever being true democracy in Tonga ( ‘ on paper the place is ripe for revolution , it is true , and our friends in the other islands are experiencing troubled times , so we must be wary ’ ) ; the complaints about corruption among the Tongan nobility , the curious business arrangements engineered between members of the royal family and the dubious Americans who were forever fetching up at the palace doorstep wishing to bend a royal ear to this scheme or that , with wealth and fame for all ; and the most surprising news : his decision to demolish the royal palace . |