Example sentences of "[noun sg] we are [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten years after the discovery of AIDS we are entering into a new era in the global pandemic , with growing concern about our ability to confront it successfully . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In this chapter we are dealing with a set of phenomena for which there is not a clearly identified name and which therefore presents different faces in different theories . |
| 4 | In the long term we are looking for a measure of the relationship between debt financing and equity financing . |
| 5 | In this condition we are talking of a with reserve VFR range of 550 nm at 75% power or 630 nm at 65% . |
| 6 | When working with young children it is sometimes a good idea to invoke magic : " When we go into the hall we are going through a magic door " , as if it were a door to a magic wardrobe . |
| 7 | With consolidation we are working on the tangible information that is available . |
| 8 | At the moment we are looking for an alternative night shelter , which is going to prove expensive ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We long for nights when their aircraft can not attack us , and at the moment we are rejoicing in a fog which is sheltering us , I wish the politicians would see sense and stop the war . |
| 11 | ‘ At the moment we are waiting for the Americans . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I am sure he is the toad behind the unprecedented negative media coverage we are getting at the moment . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | At one level we are talking about the way in which planning decisions are actually arrived at ‘ in the national interest ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Every hour we are paying for the services of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , at an annual salary of £63,047 . |
| 19 | ( At present we are thinking about an all male cheer leader gang , together with pom poms and perhaps a little dance routing cheering ‘ Give me a C , give me an I , give me a B , give me a S , what have you got … |
| 20 | At present we are living through a curious combination of the technology of the late 20th century , the free trade of the 19th and the rebirth of the sort of interstitial centres characteristic of world trade in the Middle Ages . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And , next week we are going to the Hofburg . |
| 28 | In Formalist theory we are dealing with a very limited and pre-Saussurean view of language , and we shall see in the next chapter how much more subtlety and refinement a theoretically consistent view of language can bring to literary theory — as in the case of Roman Jakobson 's six-function model . |
| 29 | We have got to be spot on with the depth to which we are digging — too much and the water will be too deep and the reeds will not grow — but I think the new reeds will be good and strong , not the spindly rubbish we are getting as a result of the dry conditions , ’ said Mr Macklin . |
| 30 | According to this definition we are living in a particularly ‘ novelistic ’ age . |