Example sentences of "we are [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |
| 2 | and Q acted upon by unc and unc are essentially the same , we are meeting for the first time a concept of prime importance in algebra , namely that of isomorphism . |
| 3 | As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt , we are led to the first major misconception about doubt — the idea that doubt is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief . |
| 4 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 5 | In this book we are dealing with the second function ; application forms as a means of making an initial selection . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We are delivered onto the twenty-second floor with an incessant warning pong-pong-pong sound which is supposed to inform you the door has opened . |
| 8 | Here we are told for the first time such details as that the Moreens are American , that they require a resident tutor for their sickly child , and that Pemberton is looking for the tutor 's job ; or rather , we are not told , but are led to infer these facts , for James avoids a direct statement of them . |