Example sentences of "we [vb past] be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite apart from the scale of any observed effects , and of rather more theoretical importance , was the issue of whether any biochemical change we found was unique to , say , imprinting in the young chick , so that memory for other types of behaviour in older birds or in other species would involve quite different processes . |
| 2 | The results that we obtained were similar to the results in their duodenal ulcer group so that the results of Blair et al can not be explained by the presence of H pylori . |
| 3 | In section 1.1 , we looked at a number of general principles which we said were common to the behaviour of all types of institution . |
| 4 | We had been used to seeing bigger names travel here but somehow or other they never showed top form . |
| 5 | It is possible that a greater difference would have emerged if we had been able to age-match the Crohn 's disease and control groups , as age has been shown to be inversely correlated with intestinal blood volume . |
| 6 | We had been privy to a re-enactment of the movements of a former working on the old harbour branch , and although not frightened we were all very puzzled by the strange sequence of events . |
| 7 | ‘ I was brought up with Tchaikovsky music and the records we had were sacred to me , ’ said Coun Jones . |