Example sentences of "we be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are not switching off heating to freeze staff and customers to death . ’ |
| 2 | Does n't the good minister understand that we are not living in an idealised middle-class world of Just William where chaps get caned and girls behave like Violet Elizabeth Bott ? |
| 3 | Crucially , however , the point is this : I can not pretend that the philosophical Enlightenment has never happened , and that we are not living on the ‘ post ’ side of a scientific revolution . |
| 4 | In this context we may well ask whether we are not living in an age when God is judging our Western civilisation — whether the inflation of the Western world is a judgment on materialism , or the rising unemployment a judgment on militant trade unionism or the crisis of capitalism a judgment on the secular humanism of our age . |
| 5 | ‘ We are not aiming at a local audience , but are bearing the EEC in mind , and of course all those who come to the Frankfurt Book Fair at the same time . ’ |
| 6 | Judith Masterman , whose daughter Alison works in the orphanage , said : ‘ We are not aiming to provide everyone with a mattress but whatever we can get helps . |
| 7 | ( Many different early blueprints may play into this and compound the fear of the opposite sex , but we are not elaborating on this , as homosexuality is not the subject of this book . ) |
| 8 | When things are going wrong the Government 's supporters call it a failure of presentation and everyone trots out the old excuse that ‘ we are not getting the message across ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ No , we are not getting married , ’ Catherine reproved him . |
| 10 | ‘ We are not getting paranoid about it because the only difference is that the keeper ca n't pick the ball up . |
| 11 | It is no benefit to us that the work is produced in Edinburgh , because we are not getting it . |
| 12 | We are not getting it at all . |
| 13 | A , and so , to me , I think for what we 're paying we should be getting some service and we are not getting it ! |
| 14 | Having been told that the Government have conceded that the whole thing is nonsense , I can not begin to understand why we are not getting rid of it now , taking the strain off last year 's poll tax , which is becoming intolerable . |
| 15 | One reason for that drifting away is that , as a result of the Government 's failure to obey European Community rules , we are not getting the money that we should under RECHAR . |
| 16 | Some small farmers say , ’ We are not getting the money either , ’ and they are right . |
| 17 | We are NOT getting the points our performances deserve . |
| 18 | ‘ But we are not getting into this game . |
| 19 | We may find that some of the ideas we want to test are very difficult ones ; certainly , in using this particular example of baptism , we are not taking the easiest idea ever put forward . |
| 20 | ‘ We have simply said we are not taking it seriously . ’ |
| 21 | Buckingham Palace shrugged off the furore , saying : ‘ We are not taking the story seriously . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We are not taking you to an uncivilised place , Jenna , ’ he murmured . |
| 23 | It is important to realise that we are not taking into account all the competing paths produced by poor acoustic-phonetic labelling . |
| 24 | ‘ If we are not to waste the two days , we ought to focus on something concrete . |
| 25 | ‘ There have been approaches by several institutions but we are not considering new ventures as a priority , ’ he says . |
| 26 | In the above I have assumed that we are dealing only in values , and that we are not considering how prices of production , average rate of profit , etc. , are formed by the introduction of ‘ Dept . |
| 27 | Although , for the most part , we are not considering all alternatives , there is such a striking difference in this development for Pr greater than or less than about 10 that a single illustration would be inadequate . |
| 28 | However , I have to say I have been disappointed that through TOP we are not managing to achieve more . |
| 29 | We are not destroyed . |
| 30 | Thus the Welsh Office says : ‘ Hospitals have the option to seek self-governing status , but we are not expecting many applications . ’ |