Example sentences of "we [vb base] [be] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 Now the maximum number of engines you you 're going to have we know is going to be twenty five .
2 One of those situations when any publicity we get is bound to be bad . ’
3 And upon authority , this we think is established to be the law whether the things so brought be beasts , or water , or filth , or stenches . ’
4 A crucial assumption of the kinds of statistical calculations we have been referring to is that the sample has been randomly drawn from some population .
5 The world is in turmoil with civil strife and stress ; as Christ 's followers , we have been called to be peacemakers , and so we pray for peace in God 's world .
6 We have been thought to be ‘ ignorant of the nature of spirits ’ , he says , because we have no ‘ idea ’ of spirit .
7 Yet we have been programmed to be curious , to question , to probe and to seek to solve riddles .
8 Some of the most impressively complex examples of behaviour we see are known to be wholly innate .
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