Example sentences of "we [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That 'll sort of give you erm , where we should be at the minute . |
| 32 | As a Russian Orthodox Christian has expressed it : " To speak of God we should be at once poets , musicians and saints " ( Bobrinskoy 1986 : 7 ) . |
| 33 | We should be on the steps right in front of the door . ’ |
| 34 | We should be on the side of the ordinary people irrespective of what the multinationals want . ’ |
| 35 | It 's a long drive back to London , so perhaps we should be on our way . ’ |
| 36 | Had Germany taken the ‘ purist ’ line after the war , we should be without the wonders of Bruchsal and the Residenz at Wurzburg , and the great churches of Nurnberg would look like the clean , well-designed — but totally anaemic - interiors of those in Kassel and Stuttgart . |
| 37 | ‘ I do n't know where we should be without people like him . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ We should be over there , starting our lives together . ’ |
| 39 | The Miller , he states : and immediately before the tale commences he repeats the point : However doubtful we should be about attempts to associate the emergence of the medieval fabliau with any particular social class , it is significant that Chaucer wishes to represent the fabliau in precisely such terms . |
| 40 | President we should be under no illusion that this reactionary government will continue to attack local government to attack local to attack local government our public services are at the mercy of the fast-buck merchants within the private contractors who are bidding for council services . |
| 41 | I do not think that we should be against such moral principles . |
| 42 | Mr. Lester presented us with what he termed a menu of choices in case we should be against his submission that the right to sue in malicious falsehood was a sufficient protection for the reputation of a corporate public authority . |
| 43 | Another reason that we should be against the Labour party is that we should not put them in a position to buck the trend . |
| 44 | erm we did n't have a holiday for that but we used , when it was Willenhall er our mums knew that we should be like going home and we used to go straight from work to the Wakes you see , which was a , it was really a good wake then but then you 'd got to walk home . |
| 45 | But feasibility studies have been carried out and we should be in a position to act when we know what is expected . ’ |
| 46 | If this annual clear up round the farm did n't take place , we should be in a hell of a mess by now . |
| 47 | ‘ We should be in Seville , but we can not afford the air fare , ’ he said . |
| 48 | I had a long conversation the other day with one of the UK 's major guitar distributors about how explicit we should be in reviews . |
| 49 | This , it seems , was a widely held assumption : ‘ If the yeomanry of England were not , in time of war we should be in shrood case ; for in them standeth the chief defence of England . ’ |
| 50 | We should be in every land and in every government , moral supermen who would eradicate all demagogy , an self-seeking politicians , reaction , chauvinism . |
| 51 | ‘ Our young ones do n't seem to think we should be in mourning for my mother because she was glad to go , ’ said Julia . |
| 52 | Yes , of ourselves because we should be in a peaceful . |
| 53 | Surely we should be in a joyous peaceful |
| 54 | With luck we should be in Cajamarca in time for breakfast . ’ |
| 55 | 1 knew we should be in trouble if he got away . |
| 56 | We should be in the habit of asking questions of ourselves as much as we ask them of others . |
| 57 | If one believes that the universe will expand and then contract again , as the no boundary proposal seems to imply , this becomes a question of why we should be in the expanding phase rather than the contracting phase . |
| 58 | It might automatically be assumed that because that was the name of our branch , we should be in the public service section and that it why we 've changed the name of the branch to Bristol and District Staff because we are an odds and sods branch . |
| 59 | It is essential that the United Nations should be in there and that , having made this contribution , we should be in there supporting it , to make sure that the inhabitants of these camps , whether they are Khmer Rouge camps , Prince Sihanouk or Son Sann camps , are properly protected against being forced , against their will , across borders . |
| 60 | Instead , we should be in tune with what is happening environmentally in the most progressive countries in Europe and throughout the world . |