Example sentences of "we [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why are we expected to be stunned into admiration each day by the media , which invites us to ponder the fortune and greatness of those who are the most voracious consumers of the precious treasures of the earth ? |
| 2 | Only as long as old age is presented as an intolerable burden falling on the shoulders of the young are we persuaded to be pessimistic about the future . |
| 3 | Have we got to be quiet ? |
| 4 | That is obviously something which we 've just got to keep topping up but it was recognised by the fathers that will there was we needed to be helped to train to sell and so we needed that training er to get us get us going so to speak , there were no natural salesmen amongst departments . |
| 5 | ‘ Are we authorized to be here , sir ? ’ |
| 6 | It prompts the question whether there is not something inexorable about the mindless march of technology ; are we doomed to be everlastingly in retreat before the insidious advances of electronic information systems ? |
| 7 | The objector has it that what we taken to be effects need not be necessitated . |
| 8 | Well they 're we meant to be ? |
| 9 | Are not we entitled to be told the whole truth , as revealed by Greenpeace , which is that the total lifetime cost of Trident will be more than £23 billion ? |