Example sentences of "we [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One finds reassurance in foreign examples if one looks for it : but ought we not to be looking more for stimulus ? |
| 2 | Are we about to be taken over by the machine ? |
| 3 | ‘ In other words , ’ says Maurice Melloul , ‘ our Preferred Suppliers are those which help us most to be preferred suppliers to our own customers . ’ |
| 4 | Being in love with God helps us immensely to be in love with our partner . |
| 5 | He 's from the North , talks a bit like us , he 's got the same kind of outlook and he told us not to be taken in by America , that it 's not real . |
| 6 | Two weeks ago in church the snivelling little bastard got up in the pulpit and told us not to be frightened of death . |
| 7 | If Ministers are serious about wanting us not to be governed by unaccountable bureaucrats , why are they not leading in the argument that those decisions that have to be taken at European level are fully accountable to a stronger European Parliament that is elected by a fair system ? |
| 8 | I think it 's really quite heartening to see so many aspects that the City Council are already taking notice of , and really are already putting it into their policies to view the environment as something precious , something we 've got to look after , but you 're warning us not to be too complacent are n't you ? |
| 9 | This is far too many for us ever to be able to solve the equations and predict how the brain would behave , given its initial state and the nerve data coming into it . |
| 10 | Her wreath in the shape of a tank bore the message ‘ As you once said , there is too much love between us ever to be separated ’ . |
| 11 | It could just be that and of course it would be very naive to assume that evolution had adapted us always to be happy with everything . |
| 12 | However , it did draw attention to an important point that seemed to have eluded positivist correctionalism : crime does not have a blanket , objective status that enables us automatically to be against it regardless of what ‘ it ’ is . |
| 13 | So religion helps us also to be tolerant of other people 's beliefs . |
| 14 | They were completely unworldly and thus brought us up to be the same . |
| 15 | It is n't easy for any of us today to be sure that we are getting all the vitamins that we need . |
| 16 | May 's comment on oxidized wares seems to us today to be quite astonishing : ‘ common flower pot red , or tile-red wares were as offensive for domestic purpose to the Romans , as to ourselves and should generally speaking , be regarded as ‘ wasters ’ — overbaked and distorted specimens which accumulate in heaps besides kilns as one sometimes made use of in their own locality ’ . |
| 17 | The mockery of such spirits would seem to us today to be capable of attracting their spiteful revenge . |
| 18 | What a fine piece of historical irony it would be if from the heart of this wounded part of Europe there were to emerge a politics that would begin to show us how to be at home in the world , decently balancing the requirements of social justice and economic sufficiency , of finite nature and what we call human nature . |
| 19 | It tells us there to be vigilant , vigilant with a view to prayers , is n't that staying awake ? |