Example sentences of "we [modal v] [vb infin] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said Barrow : ‘ What we must do is take confidence from those results . |
| 2 | We must have been fules , you see , to have took all that trouble to level our things up ! ’ |
| 3 | We can move toward a nationalized system — which will restrict patient choice in picking a doctor and force the government to ration services arbitrarily — and what we 'll get is patients in long lines , indifferent service , and a huge new tax burden . |
| 4 | Instead we might have been strangers . |
| 5 | We might have been livestock that he was assessing for slaughter . |
| 6 | But my mother knew who it was , so she quickly hid Molly underneath the stairs and that was that , otherwise we might have been brothers-in-law . |
| 7 | The only dish she made that we could tolerate was syrup tart , which we praised extravagantly , with the result that it became our unhealthy staple diet . |
| 8 | Then defenceless , all we could do was fight the panic and slowly slip away . |
| 9 | Before , we knew you should save energy , but all we could do was wave our hands . |
| 10 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 11 | Calling for help from radar , all we could raise was Alexandria , and they had no radar . |
| 12 | We talked for a while , catching up on our movements since we 'd last been neighbours six months earlier , in November . |
| 13 | We 'd wave is dey daandered tae da shop , skoit |
| 14 | In a better place and time , we 'd have been friends . |
| 15 | If any one of us had been touching a wall above ground we 'd have been part of the bloody architecture by now . ’ |
| 16 | I think we would have been friends . |
| 17 | ‘ If we 'd been pounced upon a year ago we 'd have had maybe one good song and we would have been shit and not ready , without our style defined . ’ |
| 18 | Naive teenagers we may have been , but if we had found it we would have been heroes . |
| 19 | ‘ What we will see is segmentation . |
| 20 | The best we can expect is destruction , or a sudden running-down of an establishment or extensive rebuilding on a different plan or scale . |
| 21 | The best we can do is Z 2 =-2 . |
| 22 | ‘ All we can do is keep pace on this side until we see what will happen . |
| 23 | However , the maximum we can get is 60% , and assuming we go for the 386 , which seems sensible , the cost is about £800 plus VAT , ie about £940 , and 60% of that is £564 , leaving a shortfall of about £400 which would have to come from the Birthday Rides grant . |