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

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1 For how many years have we been told it 's tax payers ' money do you remember Maggie and the tax payers ' money , it 's like this animal somewhere called the tax payer but it came out of the wall as if we were n't one of them and that we had to look after the tax payers ' money .
2 We are producing what is sometimes called a sociogram which is a diagram which maps human interactions .
3 He says ; When we are flying we are trying to make the models look as light as possible .
4 In relation to the material we are discussing there are already forms of legal restriction over the material which constitute regulation , though this is not usually called censorship .
5 In the United States during the period we are discussing there were powerful moves for the professionalisation of sociology and social science .
6 By the time we are grown we are a badly mixed solution , but if the water can resurface , where it rightly belongs , then we will be as we once were , before all those hurts arrived .
7 What we are seeing them is an acknowledgement that the gallery system as we knew it early in the eighties , has really changed .
8 There is a widespread belief that when we are born we are like a blank sheet of paper on which life begins to write .
9 It is a fundamental assumption for structural sociology that when we are born we are confronted by a social world which is just as real — at least in its consequences for our behaviour — as other realities which we also confront .
10 In other words , we are not forgiven because we keep the law : but once we are forgiven we are called to keep it .
11 But all we are leaving them is the park , the road , the countryside .
12 ’ From the information we are getting he is beside himself .
13 Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today .
14 When we are lost we are not fulfilling that function .
15 Thus we are still using the Darwinian model of evolution by natural selection , but the entities to which we are applying it are populations , or species , and not individuals as in most applications of the idea .
16 Well we are losing we 're breaking even on it .
17 All Joe has to say about her is : ‘ Although we are divorced we are actually still trying to work things out .
18 As important as the , the erm subscriptions in the new union will be , I think we need to also address the fact that we are saying we 're gon na fall for members are n't we ?
19 We are saying she 's a Glaucous but not swearing it until customs say she 's safe , ’ said Robin , who is trying to enlist Prince Charles in the struggle .
20 To deny them to the least of our brethren is to deny them to ourselves , for in saying they are irredeemable we are saying there is no hope for us either .
21 What we are saying there are other emergencies and I get down to the word loneliness now is there any reason why senior citizens should n't have the facility whereby they can make telephone calls if those , they so desire , to members of the family who in many instances they have n't seen for long periods of time ?
22 We are saying it is the best we can do and we must judge how it is operating . ’
23 ‘ Now we are saying it is the worst since the 1930s . ’
24 We are led to believe that ‘ lack of finance ’ is to blame yet we are told we are all paying an extra premium on the basic community charge in order that standards may be kept up .
25 We are told it 's The Smiths who remain qualified to compete in the independent charts despite whatever gigantic deals may take place in the background .
26 Now , less than 12 months later we are told it is to be withdrawn on February 23 .
27 We 're assuming he 's wounded and had to hide nearby .
28 And by God , where we 're goin' we 're likely to need quick reactions .
29 But as we 're seeing it 's happening to all sorts of people .
30 If anyone rings and asks for her , we 're to say she 's out , then pass the message on to Bob so that she can ring back . ’
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