Example sentences of "[verb] we [vb base] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Uncle Jake says we 've to be down for breakfast in a quarter of an hour . ’ |
| 2 | He looks wise and fatherly and says , ‘ I do n't think we want to be bothered with that , do you ? ’ |
| 3 | For myself , I do not think we need to be quite so pessimistic . |
| 4 | I do n't think we need to be too sorry at the reason we 're not getting it written is we 're far too busy lobbying MPs and making protests in the centre of town and things . |
| 5 | While I can see that the woman you wrote about may well have deserved what she got — your report says the little girl was badly bruised — I do think we have to be wary of going to extremes . |
| 6 | On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . |
| 7 | Right , what made we want to be , I wanted to be a policeman when I was very young but never had the courage to do it . |
| 8 | It is important to realise , however , that what we have discussed in this chapter is relevant to the next chapter , since if we want to know how language is understood we have to be aware of the large number of different levels of processing which are involved . |
| 9 | I suppose we have to be grateful that Mr Akhtar grudgingly refrains from asking us to ban the works of Voltaire , which seems a major concession from him . |
| 10 | Though I suppose we need to be reminded of mortality . ’ |
| 11 | As you will appreciate we hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , I would like to supply it as soon as possible . |
| 12 | As you will appreciate we hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , we ought to try to supply it as soon as possible . |
| 13 | If we are serious about making the risks of HIV transmission common knowledge , and I believe we have to be , then we need to ensure that every section of society has full access to the information that is available . |
| 14 | Then we have to change again and that 's what you 're saying we have to be a chameleon |
| 15 | I 'm saying we have to be self critical |
| 16 | ‘ The changing economic climate means we have to be flexible . |
| 17 | British investigative writer Anthony Summers says : ‘ I think we have to be extremely cautious . |
| 18 | I think we have to be freed up to have the choice to bring children into a society where that we can go to work , that we can do , you know fulfilling |
| 19 | As a Board though there is nothing to stop us stating the option in our Newsletter , but I think we have to be very careful of the tone and wording that we use . |
| 20 | One thing that I think we have to be very careful about , if we did legalize cannabis there would be a proportion of adolescents who would get a great kick out of it , but there would those who do n't get the kick because it 's not illegal . |
| 21 | I think we have to be very careful we do n't take reactions which actually negate some of the work and the common sense that has been undertaken at the moment . |
| 22 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 23 | So I think we seem to be agreed that there , we 'll attempt to hold a seminar on Friday the ninth here in this Council chamber . |
| 24 | Erm so that 's a a whole of responses to this , I think we need to be far more clear in our opposition to this , I think it 's a very dangerous situation it 's one that 's happening across the country , we 're not the only sufferers and I think consortia have been very dangerous things from the beginning , and are leading inextricably to the merger that we we put before us as a proposal tonight , and I think we really should be quite strenuous in our position to it . |
| 25 | I think we need to be theoretically and politically clear that no single culture is hermetically sealed off from others . |
| 26 | ‘ All I 'm saying is that I think we need to be apart for a while , come down to earth , if you like . |
| 27 | So yeah , I support the Committee , I think on the question of the report I think we need to be absolutely specific about what committee deal with what issue of that report . |
| 28 | we 're not doing it again , I do n't think she will , but I mean I think we need to be sort of positive about how we are going to sort of |
| 29 | So having said that I thought that there were more important issues for the council to discuss , I do n't think it 'd be fair to let this second debate on the subject pass without actually making a few er er a very short erm a few short remarks cos I think we need to be clear about the issues . |
| 30 | But I think we need to be clear whether we are talking about ordained or lay people and further on in the discussion whether we can indeed justify that division . |