Example sentences of "we [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the tyres we change are worn to the legal limit . |
| 2 | Unless we can think about truth and reference from the standpoint of transcendental reflection — unless we have substantive conceptions of those notions — the questions we raise are not intelligible . |
| 3 | The single parameter that we manipulated was whether the landmarks and feeders occupied fixed locations across trials ( group fixed ) or were moved randomly from trial to trial ( group varied ) . |
| 4 | There 's not a young trout in the place , no perch for our palate , no beautiful freshwater salmon which we agreed was best of all — except for char , of course , the speciality of the neighbourhood , but , as we knew , unlikely to be so lucky . |
| 5 | The wording to which we agreed was as follows : ‘ That this House welcomes the Government 's decision to leave the ERM ; and urges a fresh start to economic policy , in particular the abandonment of fixed exchange rates and a commitment to sound finance , stable money and the right climate for steady growth . ’ |
| 6 | But I you know hopeful I know that th th th quite a large and high numbers but what we agreed was if we were working on the basis of something like on one person every six weeks |
| 7 | But some of the film-makers we met are not so sure . |
| 8 | Last time we met was at the Training Centre at Achnacarry . |
| 9 | The tercentenary of the church in Cambridge where we met was to be held in June that year , and we looked forward eagerly to that reunion , and to another reunion in May with friends in the Lake District . |
| 10 | Benjamin acted with all the authority he could muster : displaying Wolsey 's warrants and issuing orders in such harsh tones that everyone we met was soon running about as if the great Cardinal himself had arrived . |
| 11 | Our first ride lasted for just 45 minutes ; most of the drivers we met were considerate and took notice of the ‘ Slow please , young horse message emblazoned on my tabard . |
| 12 | The lads we met were a group who choose to meet with Father Patrick weekly . |
| 13 | The stations and stock were in immaculate condition , and all the staff we met were welcoming and more than polite . |
| 14 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |
| 15 | But the principles we applied were not so very novel . |
| 16 | Karen never let me forget that everything we owned was originally hers and hers alone , and that I had not only contributed nothing to our joint capital but was n't bringing in any income either . |
| 17 | The pursuit of truth , the effort to comprehend , arrange , interpret some aspect or other of the universe we perceive is an activity of humanity which justifies , rewards and motivates itself . |
| 18 | Anything we perceive is , by definition , something which operates through one of our sense organs . |
| 19 | If the surrounding web of reality which we perceive is partly true and partly false , then in order to get closer to the truth some things need to be doubted so that others can properly be believed . |
| 20 | Moreover , what we perceive far exceeds what actually interacts with our nervous system ; for what interacts with our nervous systems is occurrent energy and what we perceive are continuant objects ( see earlier , p. 98 ) . |
| 21 | No doubt it would have been so to Descartes , Malebranche , and Locke : they might have agreed with Berkeley that what we perceive are ideas . |
| 22 | I think Americans and Russians find it strange that we are 100% funded by government and over 50% of the cases we bring are against government departments . |
| 23 | President , I 'd like to er , offer thanks on behalf of my membership in the Process and Construction Section , on the false agreement , it was a very successful week and just to echo Keith 's words , those links that we made are working and we are in correspondence with the , our colleagues in and we 're picking that up in terms of recruitment . |
| 24 | The decision we made was careful , it involved us in much work , and it was , in the event , I think , a seriously mistaken decision . |
| 25 | ‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone . |
| 26 | One of the points we made was that even a few years in multimedia development is a very long time . |
| 27 | Ironically , some of the breakthroughs we made were with others from the UK market . |
| 28 | I do n't want to start haunting Chambers ’ doorstep , yet I want to be absolutely sure that the moment we pick is the right one . ’ |
| 29 | What we lack is enough money . |
| 30 | I think the one type of penalty we lack is something between full custody and non-custody . |