Example sentences of "we [vb base] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things that we perceive to be solid and separate are in reality just various forms of energy . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | So we respond to what we perceive to be the case rather than what is the case . |
| 4 | On the cover this week is Jimbo Kerr , lead singer with rising starts Simple Minds , whom we declare to be ‘ serious dance music ’ . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | This year is important , and we intend to be in the forefront of promoting and supporting this EEC initiative . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We tend to be fairly what we might call gregarious , meaning we like to stay with people of our own type . |
| 12 | Frequently we tend to be led astray by the fanciful language of introspective psychology . |
| 13 | It is that we tend to be left with an RE which effectively has lost its " R " . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There is no sign of that from our point of view and we tend to be late in the cycle anyway . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Religion can not be divorced from morality in his view for it is belief in an ordered moral government of the universe and when we lose our basis in morality we cease to be religious . |
| 19 | It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether . |
| 20 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 21 | ‘ Whatever state we appear to be in , the players will be raising their game , ’ Ryan said . |
| 22 | In this process the danger is that we destroy the inner reality of that which we appear to be preserving . |
| 23 | We appear to be in the cosmopolitan city world of the uprooted . |
| 24 | We appear to be a long way from finding effective means of primary prevention of attempted suicide . |
| 25 | This is why we appear to be witnessing a new round of military coup attempts in those happy places where western prescriptions have been carried out with such fidelity : for example , Fujimoro in Peru last week , and the events in Venezuela in February . |
| 26 | ‘ We appear to be in some sort of glass box , ’ said the Thing . |
| 27 | We appear to be selfish , cynical creatures ; our greatest ambition in relation to rules of behaviour is to get other people to obey them so that our own cheating is even more productive . |
| 28 | In view of that , we can recognize the possibility that as rational beings we fall under a system of law which we have somehow ourselves brought into being , and that it is our task while appearing to exist in the sensory world to live according to that law , in spite of the fact that what we appear to be is simply animals driven by sensory desire . |
| 29 | As the workforce becomes more skilled , and professional , we appear to be producing more and more individuals seeking autonomy , creativity and growth . |
| 30 | We fail so utterly to reward responsible married women that if we give anything at all to single mothers we appear to be placing a premium — ‘ |