Example sentences of "what we [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus what we gain is Something , yet it is by virtue of Nothing that this can be put to use . |
| 2 | What we project is the essence of our politicians , the nature of their convictions . |
| 3 | No well what we said is we 're gon gon na scrap Saturdays unless we s consider it to be critical and unavoidable on the basis that , if they , they can work Saturdays if they 'd rather work Saturdays than in the week , but that 's their choice not ours |
| 4 | Which is is what we said was one of the key key areas we need to do for I I P . |
| 5 | we would n't object yes , it was very you know , the emphasis was very different and just as the you know the emphasis on , on the handover erm , he wrote down that we would be happy to stand down and in fact what we said was we |
| 6 | No what we said was that if you were interested to see if two variables are associated , this is for a pi squared you might look at sex differences , men and women , and smoking or non-smoking now if they were associated what we 've said is that you might for example ex in fact women 'll probably smoke more than men . |
| 7 | The advent of commercial and domestic freezing equipment means that what we eat is no longer limited by the time of year — although whether you consider the flavour of food which has been deep frozen for any length of time to be as good is another matter . |
| 8 | But what we realized was that even if we hit his estimates we were still gon na be worse off . |
| 9 | What we lack is enough money . |
| 10 | One of the checks was in what we thought was no man 's land , a rocky valley with the odd bush here and there . |
| 11 | The w we put in what we thought was a completely fair er , er quotation for what we were doing . |
| 12 | I recall at this period that I had a new second pilot by the name of Saltzgaber , who was first generation Canadian but German born , The target was Mannheim , When we got into the area we found that thick cloud covered what we thought was tie target , so we went down , But there was no way we were going to get under . |
| 13 | So what we thought was , if you use this as your address , you can go together South Shields . |
| 14 | But what we argue is that all should have the right to put their case for asylum fairly and properly , and reasonably quickly . ’ |
| 15 | What we intend is to take up the area of ground you now have roped off , or a part of it — the broken corner of the hypocaust . ’ |
| 16 | In the case of hearing and touch this is clear ; strictly speaking , what we hear is not a coach in which we might travel , but rather its noise . |
| 17 | Jean McSorley , secretary of the local protest group , said simply , ‘ If just a quarter of what we hear is true , that place should be shut down ’ . |
| 18 | In this age of specialization , what we got is a lot of brilliant mechanics working four to five years behind theoretic technology , and a few abstracted theorists working out in the unknown and each disagreeing with the other . ’ |
| 19 | But that 's , that 's all the all what we got is in there . |
| 20 | What we got was the jelly-like wobbling of Western pop 's fulsome , milky tit in the face of the starving . |
| 21 | WHAT WE GOT WAS N'T UNIFIED UNIX IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE |
| 22 | Instead of the eight grand pay-out we had all expected , what we got was seventy quid and nowhere to shelter from the rain . |
| 23 | Well , we put the flag up at dinner , and what we got was Jim Charlton , a nineteen-year-old student from Liverpool . |
| 24 | ( Perhaps this was where the first shock to people in the field arose 0 as one said , ‘ we were expecting an all-singing Branson man and what we got was , although he could be very charming , a quiet , distinctly unvibrant and very determined person ’ . ) |
| 25 | What we got was a Budget to try to bribe voters with borrowed money . ’ |
| 26 | Budget sub-committee said , we understand that , what we 're asking , what we ask is that the er , director of finance and the Chief Executive look at it and come back with a report . |
| 27 | But I you know hopeful I know that th th th quite a large and high numbers but what we agreed was if we were working on the basis of something like on one person every six weeks |
| 28 | ‘ We were frantically busy , ’ said Lois Brown , manager of Waterstones in Royal Avenue , Belfast , ‘ and what we noticed was the rise in the number of people that were making purchases with credit cards . |
| 29 | We were downstairs , laid out like sardines under the Morrison shelter , but when this happened my Dad was up like a shot and racing up the stairs with a bucket of sand , ready to throw it over what we assumed was an incendiary bomb which had come through the roof . |
| 30 | After a bit , me dad went out to see what was going on and all of a sudden there was such a crash , and erm then there was two more like , you know and er we heard what , what we assumed was somebody 's house tumbling down but it was our stable unfortunately . |