Example sentences of "we be [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are to point to government growth , then different conceptions of the term might lead to different measures of growth . |
| 2 | My car is clamped two hours before we are to leave for Holyhead , though lifted within the hour , after much persuasion and a torrid sobbing session at the clamping office . |
| 3 | ‘ We are to leave for Nottingham at first light . ’ |
| 4 | But if we are to talk about pedagogy , individual effort must be referred to more general ideas , otherwise there is no way for experience to be communicated , no way in which others can derive benefit from the particular successes of the individual . |
| 5 | If we are to go beyond nihilism we shall have to devise a strategy to examine this . |
| 6 | The emphasis of Paul is clear , we are to go for quality both in our performance and in the way we conduct ourselves in the workplace . |
| 7 | After all , unless we can show that we are able to do better with the totality of the sums , and the totality of the business , why should any shareholder believe that we know better how to deal with his money if we are to invest in areas outside our particular expertise , than he can by individual investments ? |
| 8 | What sustains me in the search for a response to Gettier is the feeling that it may be possible to find an account of what knowledge is which will have a substantial effect on what we are to say about justification in later parts of this book . |
| 9 | Just as we might buy a new outfit , then take it home and change out of the old and into the new , so Paul likens the complete change needed if we are to live as followers of Christ . |
| 10 | We may need some conceptualization , some image , some words , if we are to speak of God ; but scarcely a picture of the universe and a history of humankind such as we have inherited in the Christian creeds . |
| 11 | We , KPMG Peat Marwick ( ‘ KPMG ’ ) write to confirm the arrangements whereby we are to make on behalf of [ Acquiring Client ] ( ‘ Client ’ ) an offer ( the ‘ Offer ’ ) for the issued share capital of Target plc ( ‘ Target ’ ) . |
| 12 | The avowed purpose of the public schools was to produce leaders , and if we are to understand by leaders rulers capable of extracting the voluntary compliance of the ruled , we must concede that they produced them . |
| 13 | However , we are then faced with the question of what we are to understand by autonomy . |
| 14 | Yes , there may be some waste in the Health Service , but I would suggest if we are to look for savings then start at the top . |
| 15 | This project is based on three premises : that more young economists , bound for industry , particularly consultancy , the civil service and the city , should have at least been apprenticed in research--hence , in part , the use of occasional research assistants rather than experienced professionals ; that applied economists should pay more attention to the views of non economists , and , in particular of practitioners in the fields they study , hence the emphasis on the flexibility required if we are to look at problems differently , or use different types of evidence ; and that more of us should build our models self consciously , with an eye to analytical convenience and ease of interpretation , considerations which would be less important were economics less inexact , since it might then make sense to seek the correct model , however difficult to analyse and understand . |
| 16 | This is not an excuse , but a fact of life and we need to improve our scrummage 200 per cent if we are to survive against England . |
| 17 | We must feel that the existing social arrangements allow for equal , or justifiably unequal , satisfaction of our other needs , if we are to believe in conformity . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to do something , ’ she answered sharply , ‘ unless we are to starve to death . ’ |
| 19 | We all need to belong to a group of people who believe , if we are to grow in faith . |
| 20 | English was defined as including both language and literature and we were to take into account relevant aspects of drama , media studies , information technology and information handling . |
| 21 | English was defined as including both language and literature and we were to take into account relevant aspects of drama , media studies , information technology and information handling . |
| 22 | I put my name on the list with everyone else , but was absolutely dumbfounded when I was told one day that it had come up , along with that of one of the other Waafs , and if we wanted to go we were to report to RAF Wyton at 10.00 hours the next day . |
| 23 | We were to go on foot so as not to disturb the tranquillity . |
| 24 | They replied , ‘ Oh , but we were to go for drinks with Derek tonight . ’ |
| 25 | The day came when we were to go to court to legalise the situation . |
| 26 | But I can remember once when I was at the school Mrs was our music teacher and we were to go from doh to far , you know doh to far , and they used to s , she used to say listen to Mabel , Mabel 's the only one one of you that can go from doh to far . |
| 27 | We were to go by sea . |
| 28 | We were to drive to Paris the long way , via cups of steaming chocolat on the quayside in Honfleur and a saucisson and baguette picnic on the back seat outside the Palace of Versailles : some motorway , some back roads , some Routes Nationales and then the Peripherique and Paris . |
| 29 | If we were to move from standstill to cutbacks , we would expect to see further changes in behaviour . |
| 30 | We were to jump in pairs . |