Example sentences of "[be] [conj] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I think the practicalities in the situation are that we have to face the fact that they are not going to behave impartially and you see we have a classic example in er the circumstances of our own situation as described by John . |
| 2 | erm The other parts of the job are that we do erm all of the fundamental and much of the applied research which the nation needs , we provide an increasing range of advanced courses in technology for people in industry , and continuing education generally , the number of mature students at all levels is rising , and there are a number of other service functions we do for the community as well as just teaching undergraduates . |
| 3 | Paradoxically , it is only when we accept ourselves as we are that we begin to change . |
| 4 | I wondered what the place with towers and searchlights had been that we passed in the night . |
| 5 | Now , now I , now I , personal arguments has always been that we raise people 's standards , out there , throughout the world . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ The strength of my country in recent years has been that we have had no coalition , just clear leadership , a clear majority and clear decisions . |
| 7 | So if we 're we 're if we get if we get past that erm er that that point of am I going to take a flier . |
| 8 | They 're but we do . |
| 9 | He looked up and his eyes were dark , and we were both embarrassed in a way that we would n't have been if we 'd been close together , but it was better that we should stand on our own for this . |
| 10 | Cos you know to look at the bottom line of total design fees against what they would have been if we 'd gone in fixed price ? |
| 11 | What a long journey home it would have been if we 'd lost . |
| 12 | The first yard took all the effort I could manage , creeping a toe 's length at a time , my rubber soles slipping on the loose stones , as the wheelbarrow pushed me back to where I had been and we fell over . |
| 13 | ‘ What a day it 's been and we have n't really done anything at all . |
| 14 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 15 | ‘ Here we are and we 've had our experiment ; there 's been one party , one dominant idea , one fully followed plan , one strong leader — and her grey shadow — and it 's all turned to shit and ashes . |
| 16 | And they accept us for what we are and we 've got a good erm relationship with the the people w who are left in er the flat complex . |
| 17 | There may be things that we can improve and I 'm damn sure there are and we work hard at |
| 18 | The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five . |
| 19 | We are but we 've never been formally trained in them . |
| 20 | I do n't expect the heartbeat award scheme to suffer , I will be in touch with Matthew fairly closely to ensure that , but I think the position of the labour group is that we can not support these recommendations as they are but we offer you a compromise solution . |
| 21 | The Presbytery has not encouraged party political participation and it has only been because we felt certainly that Dr Paisley 's position , that the country needs it and we felt that he should be allowed to go . |
| 22 | It is , however , not all that we are because we know that we also have feelings and emotions . |
| 23 | But I am because we dominated in so many respects — especially at the line-out — and had enough ball to have won . |
| 24 | Well , it might be that we regard it as whether everybody else interprets it that way . |
| 25 | If a secretarial assistant does not wish to accept the invitation with its terms , we would not press the matter but the policy should be that we appoint no more off-the-payroll secretarial assistants and that the whole arrangement ends by April 1993 . |
| 26 | Indeed , the most potent argument against it may be that we know only too well how protectionism contributed to the great depression of the 1930s . |
| 27 | who else could it be that we know , you know ? |
| 28 | But may be that we had a description , want to get the description out to as many people as possible , to see if anybody recognizes the person described , er then we 'd come to you there , give you the description of the |
| 29 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 30 | It may be that we felt this time we ought to have voted Labour , that this was the more altruistic , moral , even noble , choice . |