Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Selfish Gene I speculated that we may now be on the threshold of a new kind of genetic takeover . |
| 2 | If we wish to know why hysteria is now so rare and why modern forms of psychopathology in general seem so often removed from their classical , nineteenth and early twentieth-century manifestations , we may now be in a position to give at least part of the answer . |
| 3 | Having said this , I still believe there are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature . |
| 4 | One is right and the others wrong , although we may never be in a position to tell which . |
| 5 | They slid on to the bench opposite us , making pleasantries about how cold the weather had become and that we should soon be on the road for Somerset . |
| 6 | If we can average 1.5–2 pts between now and 8th January ( AND beat Scum ) we should still be in there with a shout . |
| 7 | We should now be in a position to answer Herbert Schniedau 's question : ‘ Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters … write a fair-minded book about Pound ? ’ |
| 8 | We must surely be at a stage now where almost every angler on a given match has the ability to win it , given a draw . |
| 9 | By inviting people to follow Christ , we must also be in a position to include the invitation to join us in the pilgrimage . |
| 10 | The circularity is now plain : to apply the definition , we must already be in a position to distinguish idiomatic from non-idiomatic expressions . |
| 11 | We must always be on the lookout for |
| 12 | ‘ British Sugar often want to move a load at very short notice and we must always be at the ready ’ he adds . |
| 13 | Er , we must now be with Andrew . |
| 14 | We 'll soon be on one way . |
| 15 | After many hours of travelling they passed a sign that read ‘ WE 'LL SOON BE AT PRAIL ’ . |
| 16 | We 'll soon be at the station , and it 'll be noisy enough there . ’ |
| 17 | Anyway since editing is the main problem , what we 're going to do this afternoon is , actually , I 'm going to show you another video and again it 's a very controversial one , again it 's used in , in teaching situations , again it has a biased point of view in the sense that it 's produced by National Power , er clearly as a P R job for introduction into schools erm and I want you to do the same exercise , but this time I want us to edit them among ourselves and what I 'm going to do is to get you to wri write your reviews and then we 'll divide into small groups , while you 're watching it I 'll co I 'll count how , however many people we 've got here , we 'll copy the reviews and in the same groups I want you to edit one another 's reviews and then er discuss them within the groups once you 've , once you 've marked them so we 'll get into the small , we 'll do the review we 'll write the review and then we will er , I distribute the , you can go and have a cup of coffee while we copy them , then we 'll distribute them , you can mark them , er individually on your own and then we 'll get into a group and you can criticize one another 's reviews , we 'll take them one at a time , we 'll probably be in groups of four , okay , but I 'll see , I 'll see how many , what the most suitable number is , okay so , if you , would you be kind enough to that |
| 18 | We 'll probably be in Exeter by tomorrow night . ’ |
| 19 | If we hurry , we 'll just be on time . ’ |
| 20 | We might instead be in the hands of Dr Desperate , Dr Impatient , Dr Needabed or Dr. About-to-go-on-holiday . |
| 21 | We might even be aboard a bandwagon . |
| 22 | We might even be in America before then . |
| 23 | As I 'm not prepared to risk meeting Louis and his Mafia friends I ca n't go back to pick up the replacement VHF set — which means we might well be without radio contact all the way to Greece . ’ |
| 24 | Had the advice of some hon. Members been followed over the years , we might now be in a very exposed position . |
| 25 | ‘ We could still be in the Third Division in a week 's time . |
| 26 | ‘ That proved that we could certainly be in the business of assisting recovery and restoration . |
| 27 | I mean this is something that we could maybe be of help to in fact maybe something that I could be of help to them on because I actually do lectures on public relations how to assess what I mean at a very basic level you want to communicate with press how do you do it but before you do it why do you want to do it . |
| 28 | Even though we were always moving around , we 'd always be on the same tip ; we 'd go to bed at the same time and my mom would carry cooking pots into hotels and cook — stink out the whole place with curry . |
| 29 | w well I think we 'd still be on number three or four . |
| 30 | Even when they did , it tended to be in flippant terms ; for example , one student remarked that without physics ‘ we 'd be in a right mess for a start ’ ; another that ‘ we 'd still be in the caves ’ . |