Example sentences of "as we [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For another thing the most profitable processes today simply do not need large amounts of labour and is it seriously expected by the government that as long as we avoid being tied down by the social chapter , we shall become such a reservoir of cheap labour , that we shall become cheaper and more exploitable than the labour force in the Third World ? |
| 2 | As we saw was true of Durkheim , much of this analysis and terminology of Weber 's has been adopted by radical and Marxist theorists ; thus we find radicals such as Fitzgerald and Sim ( 1992 ; see Chapter 1 ) identify-ing a ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ in the penal system . |
| 3 | Such specimens as we collect are obtained without bothering him in the slightest — smears for chromosome checks , the occasional blood sample , and so on , that 's all . |
| 4 | The colours of the countryside as we pass are English colours , greens , golds , the high washed blue bag sky , but as my eyes become adjusted and my mind learns to relax I can see them change and become , in the blue grey light , more obviously French . |
| 5 | Certainly Terry , Brian and I knew that close friends had been campaigning for us and that that experience could have changed them , just as we 'd been changed by what we had gone through . |
| 6 | It was an absolute disgrace , it really was a disgrace , and so as we 'd been informed by somebody at , now do n't ask me who cos I do n't know , but from one of the public meetings we held , er they said you can phone up any time and you y the rubbish would be collected . |
| 7 | SQL Server as we said is well proven technology , it 's been around about five years . |
| 8 | His tinnitus did not , as we had been led to believe , oblige him to spend the concert inside a perspex box ; he leapt across the stage , knees at 90-degree angles , for much of its three hour span . |
| 9 | Far from reducing taxation , as we had been elected to do , we would have to raise it — and raise it at a time when local councils were already pushing up rates . |
| 10 | She was to be proved right , as we had been taught a Spartan routine for our babies at ‘ Alderbourne Arches ’ the pre-natal training unit . |
| 11 | Sebastian and I began to feel as close as we had been all those years ago . |
| 12 | As we had been warned , our progress was punctuated by the boat grinding to a halt where the water shallowed . |
| 13 | And , backing this melodic chorus , we were aware of another noise — as we had been on and off throughout the day — the all-pervasive hum of the power station transformers . |
| 14 | ‘ Some of the stuff is very '70s sounding , but then again , as we 've been doing this thing for such a long time , I guess it 's kinda cool that all that is back in vogue . |
| 15 | Although you see erm as we 've been suggesting any project requires that . |
| 16 | He 's away back to Biggar now , but he 'll be back up on Friday as we 've been invited round to Ingalo 's for tea — Hazel 's going as well , so it should be a good laugh . |
| 17 | " We 've made no headway towards finding out whether your suspicions of Mr. Andrew Stavanger 's letter are justified We do n't yet know where Mr. Stavanger is , and such evidence as we 've been able to discover so far is inconclusive , " I said . |
| 18 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |
| 19 | The , the , the best defence you could make of that , if you wanted to make a defence of it , would be that in the nineteen twenties and thirties as we 've been seeing in the lectures , I 'll be saying a bit more about that some psychoanalyse was , was developing . |
| 20 | It 's analysis of the egos as , as we 've been seeing , in analysis was really all , all it could do at the beginning , after the First World War , shall we say . |
| 21 | After World War One , as we 've been seeing , he was exploring the ego , and his writing about the ego , in particular , group psychology and Future of an Illusion , show quite clearly that he saw the ego as a pro-social fact in the personality . |
| 22 | There are , as we 've been reminded , we celebrate that again today , an anniversary . |
| 23 | I 'm glad you said that , Chairman , I was I was just thinking erm , cut out the but , regarding on Equal Opportunities , erm , Policies , as we 've been discussing already , I would have thought housewives would have been delighted to have conservative hours rest presumably I just thought I was |
| 24 | And learning together as we 've been reminded more than once than this morning engages us all irrespective of age , irrespective of experience it engages everyone and it 's worth emphasising that the quality of learning does not depend upon the size of a congregation ! |
| 25 | As soon as we 've been , all been |
| 26 | So they 'd better be nice seeing as we 've been all the way |
| 27 | And as we 've been singing we just want those words to be true in our experience . |
| 28 | In the same room as we 've been sitting . |
| 29 | They are not actually all that difficult , as we 've been finding in the teaching that we 've been doing where indeed we have students who take a ten week course , sort of once a week , and by about week six they 're already beginning to do that , they 're beginning to work out their own problems erm puzzles and games and little language understanding programs and that 's commonplace , actually . |
| 30 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |