Example sentences of "we [vb base] it be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 However , we fear it is becoming so intense that many members of the Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council 's Planning Committee are in danger of losing sight of their duty to have regard to vital Government planning guidance aimed at protecting the open countryside from unnecessary development .
2 ‘ It takes the pressure off but we realise it 's going to get harder .
3 However , its calculatedly oblique and enigmatic avoiding of a direct statement — a withholding made all the more tantalizing in that it includes no less than eighteen declarative verb forms — could have a remarkably powerful effect if we imagine it being read by the person whose unnatural behaviour it describes .
4 We hope it 's sunk in and they 'll know what they 're doing by the time they get to Bosnia .
5 I think that 's the way we see it going and that 's the way we hope it 's going
6 But we suspect it was found necessary to place the Monkeys ' Dance where the score has it in order to allow time for setting this exotic scene — and six dancers cavorting about on the forestage could make a useful amount of noise to mask what was happening on the darkened scenic stage behind the proscenium arch .
7 When we wake it is to find ourselves alone and separate , trapped in the toils of matter .
8 The presence of carbon is the most interesting aspect of the carbonaceous chondrites , because life as we know it is based on carbon chemistry .
9 But Mont Blanc as we know it is defined with hindsight .
10 SO POP music as we know it is dying .
11 We do n't have to ask our husbands for the money , we know it is paid to us because we have the day-to-day responsibility for our children .
12 Well I 'm not sure I mean it 's interest I mean the the Council erm with another the Council looked upon attendances of the things Council do and many people who use the facilities in Harlow will argue we do n't get anything like this where we live and we always find it like that you know it 's that sort of mentality where people in Harlow may or may not say well course you get it in Harlow we expect it it 's just there it just saves we know it 's getting them people to use it but I talk to people I 'm sure people who live in Harlow or the Council to people and Harlow people tend to think well yes yes it 's all with always it 's always there .
13 Yeah , I mean , because you 've got a bit of a difficult position there , where you 've got the person let's say they 're paid their salary six months full then it drops to six months half , and after that we know it 's gon na go to zero .
14 So I rang him a bit later , Now look , we 've got a weeks notice , we know it 's gon na take some time .
15 I , I mean if , we know how much is outstanding on each one , we know when it 's due to be paid , we know it 's gon na be about eight hundred policies a section , is it , ten thousand ?
16 ’ We ca n't just deliver the phetam now we know it 's stolen .
17 ‘ And when you look at some of their shops and you see the same old wooden table that has been sitting out the front for months priced at £10 , or £20 , you realise the money has got to be coming from somewhere else — and we know it 's coming from knocking . ’
18 and be counted , but I think we 've tended to stand back and just say well we know it 's going on but what is actually being done to these
19 was that you could , you could give them then if we know it 's going to be certain people , we can give them names .
20 Cos I mean we know it 's going up whoever gets in they 're gon na put it up
21 I mean that 's our — we design books , and we design journals , and we set up and we take on new journals and can we ever extract any copy from the editorial board — we know it 's going to be about Plant Sciences , but no idea what length of headline and how much technical gump is going to go into it , or we take something on
22 According to this account , the mind-body distinction as we know it was invented by Descartes .
23 The very next piece of text in it is the song ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ , which is not in the score — though we know it was sung in the 1692 production because it is in the Select Songs .
24 Hollywood produced many films but it was a small town and the industry as we know it was controlled by a handful of men .
25 The Labour Party as we know it was established in 1918 .
26 We understand it is decided to , at once , construct an 18-hole golf course on land belonging to the Bolney Syndicate .
27 It is , in fact , possible to go beyond the association of these particular principles with democracy , and say that the emergence of politics as we understand it was tied up with the emergence of democracy in ancient Greece .
28 Indeed , in most we find it 's atrophied .
29 We feel it 's bound eventually to be open for 24 hours . ’
30 And around about sixty percent of the overall provision as we calculate it is to accommodate migration led development in North Yorkshire .
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