Example sentences of "to be [adj] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To be honest we have n't got much chance with her , ’ confided Insp. |
| 2 | ‘ To be honest we have n't got much chance with her , ’ confided Insp. |
| 3 | We bought some toffees last week , chocolates last week in Thorntons , supposed to be assorted we bought a pound and , and they were caramels and both Malcolm |
| 4 | Now the purpose of relying on a rights- based argument is frequently to claim an entitlement to act irrespective of the consequences for others , and so if the idea of rights is to be coherent we must accept that a freedom to act in the face of at least some adverse social outcomes is entailed . |
| 5 | If we wish them to be strong we should bring the notes close together . |
| 6 | Loading doses are used , and , because of the large variability in half life , even when renal function is thought to be normal we think that that is sensible . |
| 7 | But if we ( rightly ) say that God has to be unchangeable we do not mean he is static any more than if we say ‘ The Equator ’ is not the name of a poison we mean that it is safe to eat it . |
| 8 | To be sure we are seeing it in a grotesquely parodied form , but what leads to Celia being nearly raped is nothing less than the prevailing structures of patriarchal and heterosexual authority : it is after all her hitherto paranoidly jealous husband who has literally dragged her to Volpone 's bed . |
| 9 | Working on so small a piece of basic material , it was remarkably difficult to be sure we had correctly identified the genes . |
| 10 | We think someone in the community is protecting the killer and we want to be sure we 've spoken to everyone |
| 11 | ‘ Given the levels of consumer debt and the continuing rise in unemployment , it is too early to be sure we are seeing a sustainable recovery in consumer spending . |
| 12 | High street sales last month showed their strongest year-on-year growth since May , but Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , who carried out the survey , said : ‘ Given the levels of consumer debt and the continuing rise in unemployment , it is too early to be sure we are seeing a sustainable recovery in consumer spending . ’ |
| 13 | The emotions that are stirred by a human sacrifice will be useful to us , in order to be certain we have enough power for the Wete Mo Nan Dlo . |
| 14 | After all , when our western doctor 's diagnosis or treatment turns out to be ineffective we may regard him as a useless quack , but we do not also conclude that the entire system of medical science is erroneous . |
| 15 | ‘ I shall not rise to the inevitable sexism which comes from the Government front bench , ’ replied Ms Armstrong , and since not even today 's siren Labour party can consider the word ‘ silly ’ to be sexist we must assume that the objection is to being described as a woman . |
| 16 | I know it sounds unfeeling but to be blunt we ca n't go on much longer without any money coming in . |
| 17 | If the overlap were to be complete we would have perfect communication : both parties would have identical perceptions and whatever happened in one bubble would happen in the other . |
| 18 | [ If proceeds can not be disclosed , then to be consistent we should perhaps delete earlier reference to $97m for small divestments ? ] |
| 19 | ‘ To be realistic we need other teams to slip up to sneak through in the league so the cup is really our priority , ’ says 29-goal striker David McCallen who grabbed that sensational winner against his former club Linfield in the quarter-finals . |
| 20 | For the binomial model to be valid we need only assume that investors prefer more wealth to less wealth ( see Chapter 2 ) so that , given the opportunity , they will engage in arbitrage , and secondly that investors have the ability to construct the risk-free hedge . |
| 21 | Okay , I just wanted to be clear we were n't finding an additional list of names of people who are authorised to do this . |
| 22 | Simply because Japan appears to be different we should guard against reversing the image by suggesting that none of the standard elements of Japanese work practices is present in the West , and that workplace conflict is rare in Japan . |
| 23 | To be fair we have also been offered the chance of revising articles which attracted substantial justifiable criticism . |
| 24 | But I mean to be fair we used to we , warehouse thousands of tons of potatoes in Leicestershire , you see what I mean ? |
| 25 | For healthcare to be non-discriminatory we must ensure that : |