Example sentences of "we be [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are called to be righteous members of His kingdom , looking to our heavenly King , and being ready to proclaim the Good News by word and deed . |
| 2 | Maybe our weakness is our strength , thought Cameron — we are seen to be democrats , nothing like the Prince 's bands of warriors . |
| 3 | This means that we are seen to be thinking with our partner rather than thinking against them . |
| 4 | That we are courteous , efficient , and we are seen to be a caring organisation . |
| 5 | We are acknowledged to be a well-managed and progressive company . |
| 6 | We are assumed to be failed heterosexuals , feeding into the myth that the lesbian communities accommodate fat more easily than their straight equivalents . |
| 7 | We are invited to be open to the choices each of them represents . |
| 8 | As early as September 1953 Eisenhower was to be found ruminating , " Abroad we and our intentions are suspect because we are known to be big and wealthy , and believed to be impulsive and truculent . " |
| 9 | At Midland , we are committed to being market leaders in the provision of quality money transmission services . |
| 10 | It establishes our authority as catering managers , since we are shown to be not only in charge but doing something positive . |
| 11 | We are a , an innocent man until we are shown to be guilty . |
| 12 | In Eliot 's poem it is ‘ While the melodious fountain falls ’ that love is made , but we are forced to be conscious of an artifice ‘ ( Carved by the cunning Bolognese ) ’ which suggests that the apparently primitive fertility ritual where ‘ The Adepts twine beneath the trees/ The sacrificial exercise ’ has become a decadent pleasure , rather than a genuine ritual . |
| 13 | Sometimes , we are forced to be members of one group rather than another ; in the British colony , Kenyans were ill those inhabitants excluded by the British from a share in political and administrative power , or at least that was the appearance . |
| 14 | Being keen-sighted created , we are designed to be alert during the day and to sleep through the dark hours . |
| 15 | ‘ We are meant to be plucking the bloody snipe … ’ |
| 16 | This woman/man is not my life , but if we are meant to be together , we will be . |
| 17 | We are meant to be one of the caring nations in the world , for God 's sake . ’ |
| 18 | Where we are held to be contracting carriers for the purposes of air or sea carriage please note that our liability is limited in the manner provided by relevant international conventions , ‘ special contract ’ with Governments or UK statute law . |
| 19 | We can confirm that we are satisfied ( as we are required to be under the regulations ) that Growing Business plc may properly be regarded as , using the technical term introduced by the regulations , a ‘ corporate finance client ’ . |
| 20 | A friend once remarked : ‘ We are expected to be living sacrifices , but the problem is we keep crawling off the altar . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We are considered to be more sympathetic , ’ she says . |
| 22 | I think He judges with mercy , you know erm it 's erm perhaps sometimes when we 're asked to be in a situation where we have to give an opinion , then it should be , if we have wisdom er a merciful erm balance . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're bound to be on edge , ’ he said , speaking into her hair . |
| 24 | And get it into your head , Aunt Ellen , we 're engaged to be married . |
| 25 | We 're warned to be on the lookout for Hermes , a suite of server-based network management tools Microsoft Corp is developing for NT to track client configurations . |
| 26 | Delighted he 's being given the O.K. , unsure what we 're meant to be doing now , and HUNGRY ! |
| 27 | ‘ On this one , we 're meant to be working together . ’ |
| 28 | We 're meant to be trusting each other . ‘ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not sure if we 're meant to be making this up or not , ’ muses Gordon . |
| 30 | Is that what we 're meant to be doing this term , tutorials ? |