Example sentences of "we are to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is one more role we have to play if we are to been seen as a socially responsible company , setting standards for the industry within the society in which we operate . |
| 2 | The sickness of morning is already upon us , unaccustomed as we are to being up so early . |
| 3 | But if we are to be fixed to the Deutschmark , that should be an agreed and acknowledged policy . |
| 4 | A book by Mother Teresa has said much to us about how we are to be for Jesus in this situation . ’ |
| 5 | Yet another principle is that we are to be ‘ subject to one another out of reverence to Christ ’ ( Eph. 5.21 ) and this applies to each of us — men as well as women — whatever our particular calling in the Church may be . |
| 6 | When we have cares , we are not to look to pagan religious practices and philosophies for respite , but we are to be as the Apostle Peter put it ‘ Casting all your care upon him , for he careth for you . ’ |
| 7 | If we are to be at all logical in our approach to contemporary ethics , we must accept this much . |
| 8 | ‘ Dear friends and relations , I think this is the moment when we should be aware of how lucky we are to be partaking of such excellent food and spare a thought for those less fortunate . ’ |
| 9 | But if we are to be able to talk to our children about this at all , then we must have some understanding of the choices and risks they face . |
| 10 | We are to be responsible stewards of what God has given us . |
| 11 | The motivation must be right if we are to be effective in the Lord 's service . |
| 12 | Yet if we are to be realistic in our starting-point we must accept that the relationships which give rise to nuclear catastrophe are likely to be relationships between sovereign states , each able to possess and deploy armed force for their own interests . |
| 13 | That if we are to be individuals there is no escape from our interdependence . |
| 14 | It will be needed , above all , if we are to be able to read the historical record . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , it looks like we are to be blessed with a PowerPC consortium by April . |
| 16 | And so , if we are to be judged by the wishes in our unconscious , we are , like primitive man , simply a gang of murderers … . |
| 17 | ( To be precise , there are four Humean conditions to satisfy , if we are to be sure that c caused e on some occasion , namely : c preceded e ; there was no intermediate event ; events like c are always followed by events like e in those conditions ; and we are in the habit of expecting the sequence . ) |
| 18 | On this evening we are to be entertained by a speaker who has investigated the life and time of William Shakespeare . |
| 19 | Like so many journalists , I am very Opinionated , hopefully in private only — even about my own profession , journalism If we are to be seen as an independent , unbiased and creditable observer , should we really be in the political arena with our trade union the NUJ ? |
| 20 | The more distant one of those later groups is , the more likely we are to be able to construct a counter-example ; as is revealed in our own example where = you are a brain in a vat ; |
| 21 | The more highly constrained and ritualised the genre , the more likely we are to be able to identify norms . |
| 22 | This question needs to be tackled if we are to be reasonably certain that observed variation reflects a speaker 's norm rather than random fluctuation in the data . |
| 23 | And we appreciate how honoured we are to be among the select few who they chose to share this very special occasion with them . |
| 24 | With regard to " temporality " ( in the sense in which this concept was used above ) , this can not be regarded as a sufficient condition of particularity so long as it is not shown that temporality alone ( in the indicated sense ) ensures numerical identity of particulars ; and if we are to be able to justifiably claim that it is a necessary condition of particularity , we must first show that there can be no extra-temporal particulars . " |
| 25 | For evidently we need both reflexive and non-reflexive polyadic predicates , as well as monadic predicates , if we are to be able to describe at all adequately the world around us . |
| 26 | But , as we saw , this will not work ; for if we are to be able to make significant identifying references to qualities , we need a distinction between qualities and their existentially unique instances , and this raises the problem of determining the precise ontological status of such instances : i.e. what such instances are , and how they can be identified and distinguished from each other . |
| 27 | Then we are to be formal , are we ! |
| 28 | ‘ How lucky we are to be in a band and not having to get up every morning to do a crappy job . |
| 29 | We are to be guests of this house . ’ |
| 30 | If we are to be more specific , we must compare one particular type of indirect tax system with one particular type of direct tax system . |