Example sentences of "we [vb mod] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though we have not yet attained a full system of compulsory registration , we may be said to be moving , surely and at an increasing pace , in that direction . |
| 2 | People are more wary about what is happening into our planet and how we should go about things , and how we should be perceived to be going about things . |
| 3 | I do n't see why we should be dictated to anyway . |
| 4 | So if we could look at those things and talk to the Government to see if it 's possible , it maybe it is n't possible then that 's a different argument but we should be seen to be doing something er to let this die on it 's own will A , will deprive other people for odd jobs and in some cases I 've met the representation two guys there who used their redundancy money for Airways to purchase er a small aircraft and are running a flying school . |
| 5 | There was perhaps a feeling at the start that we should be seen to be a body apart from the rest of ICI . |
| 6 | It is absurd to disagree about whether we should be fixed to the Deutschmark or not , while behaving as if we were . |
| 7 | In his defence of Rushdie 's right to publish , Mr Torode argues we should be allowed to ‘ shock and insult and to ridicule as a way of testing the faith of our forefathers ’ . |
| 8 | As we move on with God and seek his will for us as His church , we must be seen to be addressing the issues which face us today . |
| 9 | But Khomeini again insisted that it was all being done for foreign enemies of the Jews , America and Israel , we must be nailed and killed ; we must be sacrificed to the evil intentions of foreigners " |
| 10 | Erm then it talks about similarity attraction processes erm and there 's theory Similarity attraction process theory proposes that quote , The more similar our attitudes and beliefs are with others the more likely it is we 'll be attracted to them . |
| 11 | The sceptics did not deny that by means of what was traditionally called an ‘ empirical ’ sign we might be led to indirect knowledge of something temporarily hidden : smoke from over the building is a sign that there is a fire behind . |
| 12 | In addition to vigilance we need education in the responsible uses of this new extension of man 's powers , otherwise we might be driven to a fruitless Luddite destruction of computers because they seem able to take on a life of their own . |
| 13 | As parts of a whole Universe we could be said to be responsible for everything , for we are an active part of an active creation . |
| 14 | What they did deny were ‘ indicative ’ signs , by which we could be led to indirect knowledge of something naturally hidden , such as pores in the skin . |
| 15 | Because such religions are of more interest to the media than are more ‘ ordinary ’ religions , it is quite likely that whenever the tragedy occurs we shall be treated to the headline Cult Member Commits Suicide . |
| 16 | Therefore , we shall be attracted to areas of research which seem interesting to us . |
| 17 | We shall be taken to task if we disregard foliar feeding . |
| 18 | Yes , we can look forward to that application , for under the provisions agreed in the treaty , if we and our European partners fail to implement directives that we sign up to , we shall be subjected to substantial fines by the European Court of Justice . |
| 19 | ‘ Fru Blicher is laying on a cold buffet for the audience and performers after the recital and we shall be introduced to the singer and his accompanist . |
| 20 | The strategy was originally conceived as far back as the late 1960's when it appeared to many of us that unless we obtained a greater command over our raw materials we would be exposed to a fatal squeeze from the oil companies , who were increasingly entering our own field of business . |
| 21 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |
| 22 | Occasionally we would be treated to performances by visiting groups who had actually broadcast on the wireless , such as the Bainbridge Brothers , Lance and Jack , and the Swaledale Singers , who sang a varied programme of real life and beauty but created something of a problem with their final number . |
| 23 | Obviously this was no problem to the American buyers who were out in force and I wondered whether within fifty years all the antiques in Britain would end up in America and we would be confined to department-store replicas . |
| 24 | Without such a sense of pain we would be anaesthetised to the plight of others . |
| 25 | This means that you must agree to assign that part of your rights to us and we will be subrogated to those rights . |
| 26 | ‘ We can not afford a hope-for-the best cavalier approach or we will be cut to pieces on the break . ’ |
| 27 | They will all tend to put a stress on the system and depending on our health or susceptibility we will be affected to a greater or a lesser degree . |
| 28 | Pray that we will be directed to a specialist counsellor in occult activities . |
| 29 | And from such moments as these we will be whirled to the uproarious , the piercing , the magdalen , the strange and the voluptuous . |
| 30 | If everybody does not have the moral resolve to make their views known , and their presence felt , we will be restricted to walking reservations and climbing on climbing walls . |