Example sentences of "we [be] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we are is intelligent sinners , that does n't make any difference to us . |
| 2 | The West Germans , known as ‘ Westies ’ , treat the ‘ Easties ’ as if we are were illiterate idiots . |
| 3 | The to say anything is that we all have natural places where we feel comfortable , we all have particular styles where it 's easier to eat it 's more comfortable , perhaps is an example and very comfortable just staying where we are being passive it 's nothing particularly prognostic about that for us . |
| 4 | We 're trying to gain a feel as to whether we are being cost-effective |
| 5 | ‘ Let us suppose , just for one moment , that we are being over-optimistic , and that Doctor Morris will not reappear , as , of course , we hope and believe he will . |
| 6 | ‘ We have been plunging them into boiling water for years and it is ridiculous to say we are being cruel . |
| 7 | My own assessment is that as a country we are being daft about candle ends . |
| 8 | We have to know if we are being successful or not . |
| 9 | Edward , enough of us , we are being irresponsible . |
| 10 | We may feel that we are being neurotic if we have a bad self-image , vain if we have a good one , or trivial to care at all . |
| 11 | Just like purring , smiling can occur when we are being reassuring , submissive , non-hostile , and appeasing , as well as when we are blissfully happy . |
| 12 | I ask that this impudent remark can only be far from being dilatory , we are being diligent in safeguarding the environment of and the quality of life of the people , and we are not merely interested in financial gain . |
| 13 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
| 14 | Twenty years of doing ads we 're be able to have a few . |
| 15 | erm I think we 're be able to do all the counts with that number of people including the St David 's roundabout and |
| 16 | he wo n't we 're be okay . |
| 17 | On food control , the level of food hygiene inspections at seven hundred and thirty we 've achieved by buying in consultants to do some work for us in our priority area , and we 're were able to do that with Derek Welk 's retirement , leaving us with some unspent staff , and so we 've achieved a higher figure there than we expected we would do . |
| 18 | You jest with me now come on we 're we 're we 're being serious Noel if you are a teacher it is almost impossible to sack you . |
| 19 | It 's true , we 're being honest . |
| 20 | but we 're being good . |
| 21 | I think they 're being irresponsible , I think we 're being responsible , and I make no apology er for borrowing when it 's for investment in our own future , that 's what intelligent companies do , it 's what an intelligent government should do . |
| 22 | Oh we 're being kind , you 're not , you nicked two and pissed off with them . |
| 23 | I want the world to know how things stand , and that we 're being truthful and open and not ashamed or in any way put down . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're being silly , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 25 | slightly different material but substantially the same n nature same scale of development , I believe that we have a track record that shows that we were are tough and will continue to be tough I |
| 26 | Something was being born inside them , as if the past and future were coupling to breed a new kind of man , and it seemed to them that the wind was whispering a phrase they had often heard from Bakayoko : ‘ The kind of man we were is dead , and our only hope for a new life lies in the machine , which knows neither language nor a race . ’ … |
| 27 | ‘ Even I wondered sometimes whether we were being utopian . ’ |
| 28 | But everyone still thought we were being stupid and wacky , so we 've given over . |
| 29 | But everyone still thought we were being stupid and wacky , so we 've given over . |
| 30 | When we were younger and talked about this as our retirement home , people tended to laugh and think we were being pessimistic thinking so far ahead . |