Example sentences of "we be " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ From now on , the infant will be reared as I explained , and not for at least twenty years will we be able to report in much detail on the results of our investigations , although preliminary papers will be published in the professional press from time to time . |
| 32 | Where would we be without the |
| 33 | If we are technically subjects of the Queen , how can we be free and equal citizens ? |
| 34 | If the will of Parliament is sovereign and not the will of the people , how can we be true politically participative citizens ? |
| 35 | Still less can we be true citizens if that parliamentary will is in practice the will of a Prime Minister presiding over a cowed Cabinet and protected by an impregnable parliamentary majority . |
| 36 | Only by knowing the mechanisms responsible for latent inhibition will we be able to eliminate its effects allowing other forms of perceptual learning to be revealed . |
| 37 | ‘ Pamela 's father 's a shop-keeper , how can we be upper class ? ’ |
| 38 | When will we be setting out , Duart ? |
| 39 | Would we be wiser if we were told ? |
| 40 | How can we be ‘ blessed ’ or ‘ happy ’ , if we have also to be humbled as ‘ the poor in spirit ’ , or to mourn , or to be meek , or to ‘ hunger and thirst for righteousness ’ ? |
| 41 | But can we be sure that the last three decades of sustained growth in crime are not a recording phenomenon ( Bottomley and Pease , 1986 ) ? |
| 42 | Our first daughter , Lewis-Ann , sometimes complained : ‘ Why ca n't we be like normal families and go to France or Greece ? ’ she would moan . |
| 43 | The best you can do is silks for a jockey skullcap , but should n't we be able to buy hats covered with light or reflective materials , instead of velvet , for road use ? |
| 44 | I do n't think that anyone would doubt that the treatment Dr Carrington received was extremely caring and humane ; but can we be sure that in other cases this will necessarily be so ? |
| 45 | Can we be sure that doctors will not continue to force treatment on a patient who has said ‘ Enough ’ , yet not cease treatment or hasten death too soon ? |
| 46 | HOW CAN WE BE TRUE TO THE TEACHING OF THE BIBLE ? |
| 47 | Once we become aware of what we are doing , will we be able to go on being wasteful with our precious resources ? |
| 48 | Would we be right in thinking , a tidy sum ? |
| 49 | Can we be ? |
| 50 | Should we be vegetarian or even vegan ? |
| 51 | And the more dubious must we be of sweeping generalisations made on the basis of such statistics . |
| 52 | How much more blissful can we be armed as we are with transcendent philosophies ? |
| 53 | So should we be surprised that the architect has to content himself with high fees most of the time as his reward when an ungrateful society refuses to thank him ? |
| 54 | Should we be proud that the loaf broken at the Last Supper is now feeding 5000 denominations in as many different ways ? |
| 55 | Should we be passive and possibly die from lack of self defence — or shoot him dead and be tried for culpable homicide ? |
| 56 | Will we be the people who will have the task and experience of finding this cure ? |
| 57 | Only by having fought every battle and won can we be free from the constraints of being used to act out the wheel of life and be truly ourselves . |
| 58 | How can we be sure that the topics were put to a number of people in the same way ; that is , were they all responding to the same stimuli ? |
| 59 | Where would we be but for the work done by previous generations ? |
| 60 | for many teachers the ‘ old ’ Lehninger — Biochemistry ( 2nd ed , 1975 ) — has been a biochemical bible , but can we be equally enthusiastic about the ‘ new ’ Lehninger ? |