Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [am/are] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which , of course , momentarily , it did : ‘ Two weeks , ’ she boldly and brightly continued , breaking the trance like stillness with a frisky movement of her head and braceleted right arm , ‘ yes , two weeks , in Kyoto and Osaka , it should be quite fascinating , quite an opportunity to see a completely different culture , of course it relates to our own work at the Institute in a very particular way , it seems that there has been a considerable amount of research done in the department we are visiting on the problems of adoption and stepparents . |
| 2 | All brains in gear we 're listening from the beginning . |
| 3 | With consolidation we are working on the tangible information that is available . |
| 4 | Okay , let me just remind you of that competition question we 're running at the moment er , the first of three video competitions we have this evening . |
| 5 | ‘ Yeah , but a song like ‘ Strength to Strength' ’ is a joke we 're playing on the English working class after the election . |
| 6 | We will discuss a little later the emotions implications of this but for the moment we are reflecting on the practical issues that overwhelm the bereaved person . |
| 7 | ‘ At the moment we are waiting for the Americans . |
| 8 | It 's important to be clear that for the moment we are talking about the purchase of places in the private and voluntary sectors : in-house purchasing is not with us yet . |
| 9 | If we look at erm your , your income at the moment we 're looking in the region of take home pay of , of nineteen |
| 10 | Chairman Trevor Wheatley said yesterday : ‘ The recovery we are seeing in the UK and US is fragile , though our order books are 20pc up on this time last year . |
| 11 | I am sure he is the toad behind the unprecedented negative media coverage we are getting at the moment . |
| 12 | It is one of many graphic illustrations of the damage we are inflicting on the Earth to be found in Jonathon Porritt 's Save the Earth ( Dorling Kindersly , £14.99 ) . |
| 13 | At one level we are talking about the way in which planning decisions are actually arrived at ‘ in the national interest ’ . |
| 14 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 15 | ‘ But this afternoon we 're going to the shops . |
| 16 | Every hour we are paying for the services of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , at an annual salary of £63,047 . |
| 17 | but of course we 're assuming for the purposes of the argument that er , that erm , your that is a matter of Eng English law , the matters of which you make complaint are a defence or set off |
| 18 | Because of course we 're looking at the importance of bringing this on right from the time that a man joins as a recruit , and I realize that 's when they 're very vulnerable indeed , they 're unfit probably , they 're nervous , they 're not a team yet , and we 've developed all sorts of things . |
| 19 | Cos now of course we 're talking about the whole cosmos , the everything that there is , the all , the whole erm and then , you 're right , he does talk about erm erm body at one er extraordinary point he talks about body , the relation of body and soul being that of a er fishing net er floating through the ocean and erm the ocean is soul and this fishing net is er body floating erm through it . |
| 20 | The pastoral work of the church can not be done without adequate financial support and I am afraid the support we are getting at the moment is simply not enough for all we are doing . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ While we would hope the money we are spending at the moment is proving to be cost-effective , at the end of the day electronic security is really only buying time , ’ said Mr Banks . |
| 22 | Er so we are concerned that that money perhaps future time so that we can continue to spend whatever money we are doing at the present time er to our roads . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the director of quality for the new Anglian Water plc , Peter Matthews , told the press , ‘ I can assure all our consumers that the water we are providing from the reservoir is absolutely safe to drink . ’ |
| 24 | Following the imaginative suggestion of my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford , South ( Mr. Thorne ) , in recognition of Nepal 's return to democracy we are presenting to the Nepalese Parliament a throne for its Speaker . |
| 25 | His eyebrows twitched and he said , ‘ This week we are dealing with the sixth chapter of St Matthew … ’ whereupon 90 per cent of the audience tumbled out of the room . |
| 26 | And , next week we are going to the Hofburg . |
| 27 | Next week we 're going up the river ! |
| 28 | ‘ We expect the control we are exercising over the sound levels at the concert will prevent undue disturbance to residents , ’ said assistant director of environmental health Ray Jones . |
| 29 | We 're a bio-technology company and in a sense we 're going to the Mecca of bio-technology . |
| 30 | He can be unseated by a swing of 3.6 percent to Labour — and that 's the kind of swing we 're seeing in the opinion polls at the moment . |