Example sentences of "we [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 2 | Not unless B S I we to were to exs , expect to see that we have audited everything before they came . |
| 3 | The question modern sectarian formations have to ask themselves is also the same question as the early church asked : ‘ Are we to be exclusive or inclusive ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ For how long are we to be deprived of the company of the lovely new bride ? ’ a voice spoke silkily behind them . |
| 5 | But the issue is , on which type of crime ought we to be concentrating ? |
| 6 | ‘ How ’ , the teachers asked , ‘ are we to be trained and to find the time to do the job , without any extra resources ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Are we to be destroyed from inside , too , a country which successfully repelled and destroyed Philip of Spain , Napoleon , the Kaiser , Hitler ? ’ |
| 8 | Were we to be trapped there until high tide lifted us off ? |
| 9 | Studying the fossil record enables us to show what must have happened , but , as Stephen J. Gould has been the most recent to argue , were we to be able to wind the clock of evolution backwards towards the origin of life on earth , and then run it forward once more , quite different outcomes would most likely have occurred ; not only would there probably have been no humans , but perhaps not even any brains . |
| 10 | Are we to be killed by the Cubans or the Russians ? ’ |
| 11 | Well we were up there one time er at the Lothian region and we to be up and tell that this was imposing higher things on , higher prices on both the bus buses , because they were raising the bus fares at the same time , and they were increasing the lunch club . |
| 12 | Is the Department of Trade and Industry prepared to do anything to help the efforts of my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell , South ( Dr. Bray ) to try to secure thin slab steel production in Scotland — or are we to be left entirely to the mercy of that virtual private monopoly , the British Steel Corporation ? |
| 13 | As the rest of Europe and the world progresses , are we to be left in a quagmire of despair at the end of another parliamentary Session , another era and another century ? |
| 14 | ‘ Are we to be partners or not ? ’ she muttered . |