Example sentences of "we [modal v] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact is we remain an island power and can not ignore the sea however close we may be to the Continent . |
| 2 | However sceptical we may be of the claims of medicine and its practitioners , we do , as Kosa said , place our faith in them when we can not cope by ourselves . |
| 3 | ‘ I hope , sir , ’ he said , not noticing the pun , ‘ that we may be of some assistance to you in your stay in the region . |
| 4 | And here I must agree that I am beginning to fear that we may be on the edge of an age of the worst kind of mass production . |
| 5 | The Unionist fear is that we may be on the last verse of another . |
| 6 | Annoyed as we may be at having the cardinal terms left thus undefined ( for Pound proceeds no further towards defining them ) , we are compelled to see that this criticism is not of the chalk-or-cheese , sheep-and-goats variety ; the discrimination proposed is more subtle — between a quality in poetry that is ‘ nearly always ’ a virtue ( ’ I can think of no case where it is not' ) , and an opposite quality that is ‘ not always ’ a fault . |
| 7 | The I was n't talking about what were included in the calculations , what I was talking about and we may be at cross purposes for that reason is what the policy provides for . |
| 8 | Nor do I think we are , as a rule , justified as we may be with adults in using a child 's attraction to the worker to advance casework . |
| 9 | Unfazed by the fact that we may be off making a cuppa when his big moment hits the screens , Des has set his sights on playing James Bond in Goldblender , perhaps ? |
| 10 | In our day to day living , in our living , in our service for him , in our worship , in our relationships with one another , in our thinking , our motives , our our everything about us that we may be like him . |
| 11 | Impressed as we may be by the caddis house , we are nevertheless , paradoxically , less impressed than we would be by equivalent achievements in animals closer to ourselves . |
| 12 | To suggest , sotto voce , that we may be in danger of inflating the man ( woman , rarely ) way out of proportion to the job itself ? |
| 13 | ‘ We may be in business , ’ he radioed to Bodie . |
| 14 | Yet wherever we may be in this universe , a Marine 's transformed body is his temple , containing the eucharist of Rogal Dorn ; as yours will soon be also . ’ |
| 15 | Or rather they can tell you that ‘ previous assumptions on the dark nature of this pigment can no longer be considered entirely operative ; indeed , we may be in total reversal scenario here , which is in line with expectations . ’ |
| 16 | At the simplest level we may be in doubt , for example , whether to approach an injured bird for fear of exacerbating its plight , or be uncertain whether the bitch giving birth needs assistance . |
| 17 | Okay , er yes I think it may have actually etched , we may be in luck . |
| 18 | I think we may be in a position now to take more risks . |
| 19 | All girls together we may be in here , but she knows full well Lil 's position in the corporate hierarchy . |
| 20 | We may be in danger here ! ’ |
| 21 | We may be in your household but we work under the direct orders of the Lord Cardinal . ’ |
| 22 | A few of our members have prepared very good speeches which they present locally and it would be my hope that we may be in a position in the not too distant future to have a professionally prepared audio/visual promotional aide . |
| 23 | But at the time that the county council had moved to adopt the policy , we may be in the working the context of regional policy to be issued by the Secretary of State . |
| 24 | We may be in the position where the jobs are not necessarily all in the right place . |
| 25 | We may be in Oxford , but the mood 's very much Japanese and to the taste of the President of the Board of Trade . |
| 26 | I doubt if that is so I think to some extent we may be in what we are saying and doing , feeding the current which says that nobody in national politics could conceivably be honest or decent or competent in any way whatsoever , that to be a Member of the House of Commons or to be a Member of the Government is somehow to have the mark of put upon them . |
| 27 | However expert we may be in a fairly narrow field we are laymen to one another . |
| 28 | I would say that they ought to be able to spend at a level which is within the S S As that have been given both for the county and for the districts , and therefore we should be below the three hundred and seventy eight . |
| 29 | Today we should be at least where Hungary is , or where the Czechs are . |
| 30 | We should be at the château just in time for breakfast . ’ |