Example sentences of "we be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only once in the last ten years , in 1983 , have we been placed in the first three . |
| 2 | Have we been beguiled by Mr Gorbachev ? |
| 3 | Have we been expelled from an arcadia of fun where nature provided us with innocent automata , lowing and braying machines for our amusement ? |
| 4 | How many times on a visit to families in the neighbourhood , before being offered a cup of tea , had we been taken around a house — ‘ The grand tour again , ’ sighed Dad — to admire knocked-through rooms , cunning cupboards and bunkbeds , showers , coal bunkers and greenhouses . |
| 5 | " Ladies and gentlemen , I need not tell you how we are ravaged by this disease in Krishnapur ! |
| 6 | A peculiarity of human beings is the very weak degree to which we are endowed with " natural " discriminating powers of this sort . |
| 7 | IN OUR arrogance , we parents tend to assume that our children love us , respect us and think we are endowed with the wisdom of Solomon . |
| 8 | Despite the tougher trading conditions I am pleased to report that Healthcare has yet again had a profitable year , and we are poised for further expansion of our business in the coming year . |
| 9 | We are poised on the edge . |
| 10 | Then if we are taxed with what we said about someone , we shall be calm for we shall know that everything we said was benevolent . |
| 11 | We are cleared by Air Traffic Control to taxi and take off . |
| 12 | We are warned by Rose and Barker : ‘ Biased error strikes at the roots of comparisons . |
| 13 | Virtually every week we are warned in the media of further devastating environmental effects of our own past excesses ; effects that threaten human as much as non-human life and livelihood . |
| 14 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |
| 15 | We are called to be righteous members of His kingdom , looking to our heavenly King , and being ready to proclaim the Good News by word and deed . |
| 16 | We are called into our boss 's office , which heightens our expectations — ‘ this must be it ’ we think . |
| 17 | According to Max Gluckman , gossip and scandal are ‘ among the most important societal and cultural phenomena we are called upon to analyse ’ . |
| 18 | … Whether , as a matter of expression , you say , as was said in the case of Watson v. Fram Reinforced Concrete Co . Ltd. , that this is to be explained by postulating a continuing duty , or merely projecting the relationship of duty into the future , or whether you regard it as possible to establish a breach of duty as at birth by reference to an act antecedent to the accrual of the cause of action , may be open to debate , but it has no bearing on the precise question we are called upon to answer , namely , whether the defendant owed a duty of care to the infant plaintiff . |
| 19 | We are called upon to make such statements in all sorts of circumstances in our constituencies and sometimes we do it slightly with tongue in cheek , but I can genuinely make such a statement about many homes . |
| 20 | And we are called upon , as Astrid says , to sort of , you know ‘ this is n't working , can you fix it , because you know how it works ’ , and that 's fair enough , but I 'm not called on by somebody in the press to fix a typewriter . |
| 21 | Lord , we are called by your Son 's name . |
| 22 | Lord , we are called by your Son 's name . |
| 23 | That we can not make those leaps of vision so because we are bound to a cultural view which denies their possibility . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We are bound to our heartwood Trees in death , ’ said the Larch . |
| 25 | The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be . |
| 26 | The Aragonese were politely told by Edward ( in January 1283 ) that ‘ we are bound by kinship and by homage to the king of France , nor does it behove us to rebel against him in any way , nor to do anything to arouse his anger nor give him offence ’ . |
| 27 | What she confides to us we are bound by our office to heed . ’ |
| 28 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 29 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 30 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |