Example sentences of "[noun sg] we be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child we were is still inside us , crying |
| 2 | Here in this place we are being encouraged to come home to God 's dwelling place . |
| 3 | I had one friend from another house who felt the same way as I did about the school and the whole process we were being put through . |
| 4 | ‘ The British have a long history of being inventive and in this current climate we are being inundated with new ideas , ’ says Richard Paine , marketing director of Inventalink , one of Britain 's biggest agencies which sells the ideas to commercial companies . |
| 5 | Next week we 're being entertained by Heather . |
| 6 | Something was being born inside them , as if the past and future were coupling to breed a new kind of man , and it seemed to them that the wind was whispering a phrase they had often heard from Bakayoko : ‘ The kind of man we were is dead , and our only hope for a new life lies in the machine , which knows neither language nor a race . ’ … |
| 7 | On the one hand we are being told we must deal with the deficit , and on the other that we must not close things and rock the boat with the NHS White Paper around . ’ |
| 8 | er , given the amount of poverty and misery that there is in this country , can we really justify , or can we really say that by paying Prince Andrew a hundred thousand pounds a year we 're being cost effective ? |
| 9 | ‘ It 's shocking the way we are being used by some clubs to further their own ends . |
| 10 | It soon became apparent the way we were being footed about , we would have more chance of convincing Rupert Murdoch to stand as a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party . |
| 11 | My own assessment is that as a country we are being daft about candle ends . |
| 12 | Wales is being given a quite different quota to England and because Cornwall is being included in England for this purpose we are being unfairly treated by Wales ' being generously treated . |