Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that the better we understand the environment in which the output of a system will be used , the better we will be able to estimate the potential value of those outputs , and to design systems accordingly . |
| 2 | Because however much we might be reassured by Parliament that Charles 's constitutional position will be unaffected by his separation , most of us believe that the Prince will finally have to give up his right to the throne — just as his Great Uncle did in the Abdication of 1936 . |
| 3 | Others influence the kind of jobs we can get , how much we 'll be paid , how we behave in public ( and even in private ) and how we spend our time and money . |
| 4 | The image of a body simply can not do justice , we are saying , to the reality of — and our complex emotional reaction to — overpowering physical realities like the sea or the night-sky ( however much we may be told that the stars are a twinkle in God 's eye ! ) . |
| 5 | In The Secret Sharer , the narrator-reader relationship is objectified by the use of " I " , so that we feel the observer as being a separate identity from ourselves , however much we may be invited to share his vision . |
| 6 | So naturally we 'll be looking to see the attitude of a guy when we 're sitting there . |
| 7 | We think we know who we are , though we do n't quite know why we 're here , or how long we shall be forced to stay . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know how long we 'll be out , sir , but this is for the drinks cupboard . |
| 9 | He noted that " we can not say for how long we will be in charge of the state administration " but that " it might be five years or 10 " . |
| 10 | I said two o'clock we 'd be parking . |
| 11 | If the answer is " yes " , then we have learnt something ( a correlation , which may turn out to be an instance of causation ) ; and in writing it down we will be saying something new . |
| 12 | We , as a society , could learn from that , and , if we regarded the birth of every disabled child as a precious gift and were prepared to provide the necessary resources to the children and their parents to allow these gifts to develop , then perhaps we would be spared the distressing sight of individual and groups of parents pursuing the latest fashionable cure for their child 's blindness , deafness or other disability at whatever cost to themselves , their families and friends . |
| 13 | Perhaps we shall be lucky and discover another ‘ dictionary ’ like the Rosetta Stone . |
| 14 | Perhaps we shall be saying that Brussels should operate a scrapping scheme , with Her Majesty 's Government as local agents . |
| 15 | Perhaps we shall be on safer ground with : |
| 16 | Perhaps we might be able to build a new Golden Age . ’ |
| 17 | I think it was overspeculated in the press that we 've sold the premises and it , it well gave the impression that perhaps we might be open you know , some people might not think we 're open even . |
| 18 | Now we 've actually found seventy thousand pounds worth of savings we have n't made anybody redundant and we 've actually quite clearly taken in that seventy thousand pounds within our overall budget past decisions has had to be taken and they 've been taken as I said earlier hopefully when the financial climate gets better we perhaps we 'll be able to other things all or were revert back to things that we we do wish to do because the the financial restraints on us . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps we 'll be able to start up in a shop again , like we did at Silmour Street . ’ |
| 20 | Phone him , see him , sort something out and then perhaps we 'll be able to have a normal conversation without you snapping my head off ! ’ |
| 21 | That I think is my main concern , with a request in a sense to you for supporting that over the next year or so , because I 'll be trying to perhaps get invited to the meetings , and perhaps we 'll be inviting officers from the authority to join me in looking at ways of building up that local context in planning to get that into our formal planning systems . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps we could be soldiers here . |
| 23 | But perhaps we should be thankful to the Duchess . |
| 24 | Perhaps we should be asking our local authorities to install wheelchair access gates in place of ordinary kissing gates wherever possible . |
| 25 | It 's a long drive back to London , so perhaps we should be on our way . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps we should be a bit more careful about whingeing about losing staff to Regional Railways and |
| 27 | Perhaps we should be getting back to the roots of organisations like the RA and footpath preservation societies in encouraging people to wander more freely and make use of neglected local paths . |
| 28 | So perhaps we should be thinking more about political education and perhaps we should be thinking more about encouraging them to be non-conformist in the sense that they are prepared to ask questions , to challenge and not to accept glib answers that teachers give out willy nilly … |
| 29 | So perhaps we should be thinking more about political education and perhaps we should be thinking more about encouraging them to be non-conformist in the sense that they are prepared to ask questions , to challenge and not to accept glib answers that teachers give out willy nilly … |
| 30 | Perhaps we should be looking at the mental state not of individuals but of society as a whole . |