Example sentences of "we [vb mod] be [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Although the monastic reformers of the twelfth century frowned on the practice of placing children in monasteries , and the Cistercians forbade it , we may be sure that throughout the Middle Ages many nuns were dedicated to religion by the same procedure as they would have been dedicated to husbands — by parental fiat . |
| 3 | We may be sure that many people even in the eleventh century had doubts about this doctrine ; just as St Anselm was convinced that the road to Jerusalem which could be pursued within the walls of a monastery was safer and holier than that to Jerusalem itself . |
| 4 | We may be sure that the panache of the French royal chancellor inspired Thomas Becket to make the office equally great in the court of Henry 11 , just as it was the quarrel with Becket which no doubt determined Henry 11 to make the office ineffective after Becket had surrendered the Great Seal on his elevation to Canterbury . |
| 5 | In later life Heisenberg was to admit ruefully that Wien was right to press his point , though we may be sure that Sommerfeld was right to press his point also . |
| 6 | Whatever cultural variation there may be in pragmatic interpretation , we may be sure that its interaction with form is language specific . |
| 7 | If so , we may be sure that computers will be in the van . |
| 8 | They lie ahead , and since they can travel at twice our pace , we may be sure that for all the length of our march we shall be subject to ambush . |
| 9 | In ordinary spoken discourse the endless cycle of encoding-decoding-encoding may be terminated by an action , as when for instance I say , ‘ The door is open ’ and you say , ‘ Do you mean you would like me to shut it ? ’ and I say , ‘ If you do n't mind ’ , and you shut the door , we may be satisfied that at a certain level my meaning has been understood . |
| 10 | But we may be glad that she decided to be feminine , as thus she was made . |
| 11 | The Professors looked unblinkingly at all possibilities ; we may be glad that : " It is highly improbable that by 1985 chemical gases will be released through the school ventilating systems to keep pupils and teachers , with or without their knowledge , alert during formal school sessions. " ( op. cit. : 55 ) |
| 12 | If we allow that the analogy does not provide a useful general descriptive or explanatory account of the growth of knowledge , we may be surprised that it was found plausible at all . |
| 13 | We should be grateful that most of our Group products directly or indirectly end up on plates or in glasses . |
| 14 | I suppose in that context we should be grateful that ministers have not used the power that they have to modify the recommendations of the boundary committees . |
| 15 | I do think it 's a difficult one , but I do feel there is a limit to the number , and therefore we should be careful that the ones we agree to are the ones that interest local people . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I should say that you should think , well those of us that are healthy any way , we should be glad that our body 's have stood us this length of time and have allowed us to come here to this programme and to take part in it , I 'm certainly delighted that mine 's a , gave me three children , nothing to complain about . |
| 18 | It may seem reasonable , but we should be clear that the arguments used in discussions about intention , emotion , pain and language in other animals are usually extrapolations from ourselves . |
| 19 | Support for these generalisations will be given as we proceed , but we should be aware that descriptions of institutional change need to be understood in the light of political and theoretical considerations . |
| 20 | ‘ We must be sure that they are alive to the evidence here , no less than in the East , that socialism does not work . ’ |
| 21 | But we must be sure that what we are seeing is a true feeding roll and not just any surface activity , for bream do frequently appear at the surface when feeding is far from their thoughts . |
| 22 | Before we embark on a major explanatory exercise , however , we must be sure that the effect is truly causal , and not just the spurious result of joint association with a prior explanatory variable , as explained in chapter 12 . |
| 23 | But we must be sure that , however shaped in our imagination that goal is , it must be inspired by our lord 's own will for his church praying that his disciples would be one as he and the father are one . |
| 24 | In the general interest of certainty in the law we must be sure that there is some very good reason before we so act . |
| 25 | Before submitting the document we must be sure that a full Information memorandum exists , and ideally the data on input form should be taken from the completed Information memorandum . |
| 26 | Although patients need to be protected from risk , we must be sure that the precautions taken are justified and that social support networks that have taken years to develop are not unnecessarily shattered . |
| 27 | As damages are paid on a full and final settlement basis , you will appreciate that we must be sure that the report is full and accurate before I begin any negotiations to try and settle the case . |
| 28 | But , to quote Cicely Harris , ‘ We must be grateful that Beryl touched our lives with her very special qualities ’ . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the burials were thoroughly plundered for their precious grave-goods in antiquity , and we must be thankful that at least the Wasp or Bee Pendant survived the looting ( Figure 28 ) . |
| 30 | We must be thankful that another war is over . ’ |