Example sentences of "we [vb past] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's not a young trout in the place , no perch for our palate , no beautiful freshwater salmon which we agreed was best of all — except for char , of course , the speciality of the neighbourhood , but , as we knew , unlikely to be so lucky . |
| 2 | Quite apart from the scale of any observed effects , and of rather more theoretical importance , was the issue of whether any biochemical change we found was unique to , say , imprinting in the young chick , so that memory for other types of behaviour in older birds or in other species would involve quite different processes . |
| 3 | Both forests we studied are similar in structure , composition and site quality ( Table 1 and refs 14–16 ) . |
| 4 | The organizations we studied were involved in a widely differing range of activities . |
| 5 | British Airways staff are fantastic , whatever class you travel , and plied Kenneth with enough booze to soften the effect of two Sun journalists who approached us for a story and picture after we 'd been airborne for about eight hours . |
| 6 | The results that we obtained were similar to the results in their duodenal ulcer group so that the results of Blair et al can not be explained by the presence of H pylori . |
| 7 | In fact , the two meetings we observed were concerned with a number of issues more or less closely related to the concerns of the project . |
| 8 | Well , well no , no because it was then about , that 's what I 'm is , then four o'clock you see , so I mean I knew I would n't make it anyway that 's why I thought I 'd better ring cos the job that we finished was half past three so I thought well even if I come home I shall be late even if I do n't get changed and washed or anything . |
| 9 | but this cake that I made erm we thought was more like a a pudding and I |
| 10 | Three quarters of the teenagers we questioned were unhappy with sex education at school . |
| 11 | At home we listened to the official news , which we knew was full of propaganda . |
| 12 | As we saw was true of Durkheim , much of this analysis and terminology of Weber 's has been adopted by radical and Marxist theorists ; thus we find radicals such as Fitzgerald and Sim ( 1992 ; see Chapter 1 ) identify-ing a ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ in the penal system . |
| 13 | In section 1.1 , we looked at a number of general principles which we said were common to the behaviour of all types of institution . |
| 14 | Which is is what we said was one of the key key areas we need to do for I I P . |
| 15 | I thought the half bottle of wine we left was symbolic of the extravagant life I was now entering , though I must admit it did go against the grain and I did think vaguely of ‘ bowser bottles ’ . |
| 16 | We had been used to seeing bigger names travel here but somehow or other they never showed top form . |
| 17 | We had been involved in an historical adventure as gripping as any detective tale or spy thriller . |
| 18 | ‘ IN APRIL 1992 , a researcher from the BBC 's dramatised documentary programme ‘ 999 ’ contacted our Community Education Department asking if we had been involved in any unusual incident where rescues had been carried out . |
| 19 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |
| 20 | After some search , we had been fortunate in finding accommodation , admittedly very cramped , in a mews flat in Kensington Court . |
| 21 | I wish that we had been able during the last few months to persuade our European colleagues that we are not arguing just for a narrow British position . |
| 22 | It is possible that a greater difference would have emerged if we had been able to age-match the Crohn 's disease and control groups , as age has been shown to be inversely correlated with intestinal blood volume . |
| 23 | If we had been aware of the remarks , I suppose it might have been better not to have made the appointment . ’ |
| 24 | We had been privy to a re-enactment of the movements of a former working on the old harbour branch , and although not frightened we were all very puzzled by the strange sequence of events . |
| 25 | As skipper Ian Butterworth said : ‘ If we had been top after six games you could have called it lucky — but not after 17 matches . |
| 26 | We had been careful until then not to think that way . |
| 27 | With pensions we had been open about holding an inquiry . |
| 28 | ‘ I was brought up with Tchaikovsky music and the records we had were sacred to me , ’ said Coun Jones . |