Example sentences of "we be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we are saying , and this is as a result of figures which are supplied by O P C S is that we are broadly saying that we will remain in this narrow band towards the end . |
| 2 | First and foremost , we are intentionally considering a limited subset of the potential causes of recent longer-term climate change . |
| 3 | ‘ We are slowly realising that fat is a very effective means of making you put on weight . |
| 4 | What we are slowly making our way towards are the pictorial consequences of Rosenberg 's nothingness and the fatality . |
| 5 | It seems to be particularly bad in the country , because we are inadequately policed . |
| 6 | Towards the end of his reign , in the ordinance of the forest of 1306 , the king speaks of being confronted ‘ with the inspection of human weakness ’ and the wide burdens that fell upon him , he being ‘ inwardly tormented with divers compunctions , tossed about by the waves of divers thoughts ’ , and being ‘ frequently troubled , passing sleepless nights , … hesitating in our inmost soul upon what ought to be done , what to be held , or what to be presented ’ ; ‘ about this chiefly is our mind busied without intermission , that we may prepare the pleasantness of ease and quiet for our subjects dwelling in our realm , in whose quiet we have some rest , and in their tranquillity we are inwardly cherished with odours of satisfaction and the flowers of hoped-for peace . ’ |
| 7 | All of this means that we are inwardly nourished by the awe of God , and enriched by his closeness to us . |
| 8 | After the introduction of Nicholas ( 3190 – 220 ) we turn back to the carpenter , of whom , too , we are instantly given details making him a perfect fabliau character : he is married , newly and ill-matchedly so , and thus perhaps green and inexperienced as well as old and jealous : The fabliau formulae themselves produce an unjust stereotyping in this case , as the carpenter 's jealousy , although referred to again by Alison ( 3294 ) , is nowhere evident in his words or actions in the tale . |
| 9 | As actuaries we are professionally trained to make forward projections so we should also look at the future for our own profession . |
| 10 | At Skinhead Times , we are meanwhile repackaging all of his original 18 novels , with The Complete Richard Allen Volume One — Skinhead , Suedehead and Skinhead Escapes our first compilation release this month . |
| 11 | ‘ At present there are around 3m households supplied with hampers and we are steadily increasing our share . |
| 12 | We are steadily working towards the plans that we set out , which we believe are right . |
| 13 | Thus we leave no mark on the ocean , as if we are successfully covering our tracks . |
| 14 | That such insights are available to gay people ( whether we are writers or not ) should come as no surprise — from birth we are relentlessly socialized into a heterosexual identity that we may later choose to reject but which remains an always familiar landscape — those on the margins of a culture know more about its centre than the centre can ever know about the margins . |
| 15 | We are continuously bombarded by cosmic rays , atomic particles ejected by distant stellar catastrophes . |
| 16 | Travel is easier and we are continuously bombarded with information about distant places . |
| 17 | We are instinctively drawn to the essential oil which may be right for our physical and emotional needs at the time . |
| 18 | However , having carelessly left the shed unlocked , our mower and strimmer were stolen and , as we are both getting on a bit , we decided we would take up the lawn and put down gravel instead . |
| 19 | We are both getting old . |
| 20 | Perhaps only because we are both bound by her spells . |
| 21 | ‘ Neither of us are idiots and Benn must realise that the only way to make the really big money we are talking about is to meet each other here , when we are both scheduled to make a mandatory defence next September . |
| 22 | We are both heated by the same fire . |
| 23 | But if we are both determined to mislead him , he is not likely to make much headway . |
| 24 | In both Britain and the US we have the ability to produce all we need , but if our leaders do not have the political balls to plan Japan by their rules we are both destined for economic annihilation . |
| 25 | As the mum of a 12-year-old son , we are both learning as we go along how to use the Amstrad 5086 , my son concentrating more or less on games and school related programs , myself for the odd game , but mainly word-processing ( I have just written my first book ) , genealogy and cheating on addressing the Christmas cards . |
| 26 | We are both pulling off into Polo Park , a large two-storey shopping mall which is our city 's pleasure palace of conspicuous consumption . |
| 27 | Pa stoops with a big grunt , emphasising the effort we are both putting in . |
| 28 | ‘ We are both fighting in September and I do n't know what he 's got planned after that , but hopefully we 'll be meeting early next year . |
| 29 | ‘ We are both talking nonsense , let us continue to do so for a few more minutes . |
| 30 | First , you will want to define the problem for yourself , but later it is equally essential to define the problem at the actual negotiation — we might as well check that we are both talking about the same problem ! |