Example sentences of "we [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We agreed to be honest with the children , I seem to recall . ’ |
| 2 | Things that we perceive to be solid and separate are in reality just various forms of energy . |
| 3 | Perhaps this was because Galileo had claimed of heat that its ‘ generally accepted notion comes very far from the truth … inasmuch as it is supposed to be a true accident , affection , and quality really residing in the thing which we perceive to be heated . ’ |
| 4 | So we respond to what we perceive to be the case rather than what is the case . |
| 5 | On the cover this week is Jimbo Kerr , lead singer with rising starts Simple Minds , whom we declare to be ‘ serious dance music ’ . |
| 6 | On the cover this week is Jimbo Kerr , lead singer with rising starts Simple Minds , whom we declare to be ‘ serious dance music ’ . |
| 7 | My new agent , Anne Hutton , who coincidentally was Joyce Grenfell 's agent , is a good partner and we intend to be very very happy together . |
| 8 | This year is important , and we intend to be in the forefront of promoting and supporting this EEC initiative . |
| 9 | We 've got three percussionists , some backing vocals , a lead vocal , bass guitar , two lead guitars , and we tend to be extremely threatening to the audience . |
| 10 | In considering solutions , we tend to be dominated by the idea that only the solute ( the material which is dissolved ) is important , and that the solvent ( the substance in which the material is dissolved ) is inert , apart from its ability to dissolve the solute . |
| 11 | Accordingly we tend to be friendly with one another , there being a general recognition that we all benefit rather from mutual support than ferocious competition . |
| 12 | We tend to be fairly what we might call gregarious , meaning we like to stay with people of our own type . |
| 13 | Frequently we tend to be led astray by the fanciful language of introspective psychology . |
| 14 | It is that we tend to be left with an RE which effectively has lost its " R " . |
| 15 | By and large most cognitive processes are a mixture of the two and in fact it depends on the context that you 're operating them in , we tend to be able to split from one to the other . |
| 16 | There is no sign of that from our point of view and we tend to be late in the cycle anyway . |
| 17 | Now one of the things th we find that when we play an Adam Faith record , we tend to be singing it for the rest of the day you know , like What Do You Want |
| 18 | She just said a bed , so I told her there were special beds that we are very useful in fact very necessary in cases and we tend to be short of them |
| 19 | ‘ When we moved the telescope off the galaxy to what we expected to be blank sky , ’ Terzian explained , ‘ we got a signal instead . |
| 20 | and all of this leads natural to the final fifth proposition not only does the bible teach that all may be saved , not only does it teach that however that not all will be saved , not only is it true and clear that some will be saved and we do not , do not , do not expect to be saved , not only is it quite clear that others will not be saved , who we expected to be saved , but finally it is quite clear that no one will be saved except by God 's way , and God 's way of salvation is very simply by repentance and faced . |
| 21 | He was very considerate like that — and he taught us girls a thing or two we lived to be grateful for later on , I can tell you . ’ |
| 22 | After all , that 's how we got to be where we are now . |
| 23 | That 's how we got to be who we are . |
| 24 | Sometimes we got to be down at Bullard 's brewery by six o clock in the morning with a load , because they 'd start loading the beer up at six o'clock ; and if you were n't in the yard afore they started you could n't get in at all . |
| 25 | I do n't even know how we got to be born . |
| 26 | Though we 're not in agreement to what 's happened , we got to be very careful because you see what 's happened to the coal er dispute . |
| 27 | We 're not true Brits , we got to be like er , foreign people and er , we just seem to go their ways . |
| 28 | The questions about European integration are the classic questions about any form of government : how do we want to be governed ? |
| 29 | This , he argues , is good news for reform since it makes fudging the issue harder : ‘ We still have not answered the basic question : do we want to be Libya or Europe , to re-establish an old-style communist regime or to promote market institutions ? |
| 30 | The second truism is one I shall need to answer the question : why should we want to be told the truth ? |