Example sentences of "we [modal v] [vb infin] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other reason is that there are at least some rules for judging advertisements , but most of these are based firmly in the objectives which the ads are trying to achieve : if we do not know what the objectives are , any judgement we may make is without a real foundation . |
| 2 | That report would include such grants as we may feel are of a which are of more corporate nature , rather than specifically a service based one , and how we would recommend the council to deal with them . |
| 3 | We should have been on TV after all . |
| 4 | We should have been at Ardneavie ages ago . ’ |
| 5 | We should have been over the pass by now and starting to look for the Hacienda Lucinda . |
| 6 | ‘ They helped him many a time to keep his head above water or else we should have been in a poor way . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Between us we must have been to every bar within a mile radius of Times Square . |
| 8 | They 're a bit scattered around — we must have been near the bottom of the pile , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 9 | Okay , go back to work , fully recovered , okay , if within six months of going back to work , they 're off again , due to the same or related condition as the last claim , then we wo n't install , or employ the deferred period , we 'll treat is as a continuation of the previous claim . |
| 10 | Erm once that hurdle 's out of the way if it is a hurdle er once once we 've agreed on that er the next decision we 'll make is on er which company you and I think that you 're more be comfortable the environment in which you er we operate . |
| 11 | So what we 'll do is to gi y Thing about this is you need the practice in in actually crunching |
| 12 | However naughty we might have been at school , this was not mentioned at home . |
| 13 | ‘ Otherwise we might have been in London , ’ Rab said . |
| 14 | We might have been in a shopping concourse and her cries some strange species of muzak : |
| 15 | The moonless sky was overcast , and gliding into an opaque blackness we might have been in outer space . |
| 16 | Families eating candyfloss under strings of coloured lights , crowds of bikers guzzling frogburgers , country music wailing from loudspeakers ; we could have been on Hampstead Heath on Bank Holiday night . |
| 17 | Here was somewhere in a meditative limbo between earthly chaos and spiritual ecstasy ; we could have been on the crystal lake of the Apocalypse , half-way to paradise … |
| 18 | At precisely the point where we could have been at our most radical we are at our least radical , this is the least radical document that we 've come across . |
| 19 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could have been in producing statistically valid trials . ’ |
| 20 | The first visit to Brussels , the amend , the first visit to Brussels we had to go and bail you out because the Commission , the Commission , we could have been in this er |
| 21 | We could have been from Bombay . |
| 22 | We could have been like George Sand and Chopin ; greater than them ! and Gustave insists on disappearing for three months with that ambitious catamite of his . |
| 23 | From then on Leeds showed some good attacking play but thankfully Bright is a donkey who gets caught off-side alot or we 'd have been in trouble ( Newsome and wetherall look dodgy to say the least ) . |
| 24 | The example we shall give is for a person who starts the regime moderately overweight and whose normal meals are fairly typically too high in fat , sugar , and salt , and too low in fibre . |
| 25 | Just think of the hell we would have been through … ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Think of where we would have been without nurses during the war . ’ |
| 27 | Witness the serried ranks of highly paid company chairmen who maintain , in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary , that the Eighties enriched us , that we are immeasurably better off as a result of the Thatcher experiment than we would have been without it . |
| 28 | In a way I suppoise it was quite fortunate as we would have been without speed and wallace , who have now got a longer recovery period — as have all the other cripples that we 're carrying . |
| 29 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 30 | If we had continued to treat patients at the same rate — there has been an unprecedented , inexplicable , and hence unforeseeable rise of 12% in medical emergencies — we would have been at least £0.5m in the red by the end of the financial year . |