Example sentences of "we are [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , we are looking for the same thing . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We are looking at the all-round development of the child , not just narrow academic achievement , ’ added Ms Robinson . |
| 3 | Here we are looking at the same argument using the energy input in absolute terms . |
| 4 | ‘ The Comrades Club in Crosby is a better location and I think people can see from some of the names that we are looking towards the top acts . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction . |
| 7 | We are acting for the above named in connection with a claim for damages in respect of injuries sustained in a [ ] accident . |
| 8 | Now that we are proceeding to the welcome elections in the near future , what steps will the Government take in co-operation with the Kenyan Government in the hope that those elections will be free and fair ? |
| 9 | At the same time these results are likely to be slow , and if we are right in our conclusion that we are faced at the present time with a certain amount of abnormal employment of a quasi-permanent character , then it is not sufficient to solely rely on the gradual improvement of productive efficiency . |
| 10 | So we are faced with the amazing fact that neither the insistence on English superiority nor a savage level of English military aggression was enough to produce widespread , let alone total , resistance by a people who for well over two centuries had determinedly and successfully resisted both . |
| 11 | Comparing his York findings with Booth 's in London , Rowntree concluded that ‘ we are faced with the startling probability that from 25 per cent to 30 per cent of the town population of the United Kingdom are living in poverty ’ . |
| 12 | Where literary criticism is concerned , we are faced with the depressing reality that this is now just one more academic specialism , a large specialism , admittedly , produced by and consumed within the academy . |
| 13 | We are discussing with the relevant authorities how this will be taken forward in practice , and consulting closely with our NATO allies . |
| 14 | An IBM Italia spokesman in Milan said , ‘ Database Informatica needs additional capital and we are discussing with the other shareholders whether to do it , who will do it , and when . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ We are disturbed by the recent reports showing the prevalence of solvent abuse in Darlington . |
| 16 | We reach the Welsh border in five hours , but soon lose our way and travel thirty miles in the wrong direction , during which we are stopped by the Welsh police . |
| 17 | We are taking about the related documents now , basic form has to be finalised . |
| 18 | Instead , we are treated to the Gaelic language stuck on the culture of others like Thomas the Tank Engine or pastiche gardening programmes about how to grow runner beans against a breeze block wall ! |
| 19 | I always know about you , because we are born under the same star . ’ |
| 20 | Work on the launch and the focus of the appeal is close to completion and we are benefitting from the good offices of our advertising industry contacts . |
| 21 | On the contrary , they form the foundation blocks to all that follows , and serve as a constant reminder of the need to ensure that we are building on the right foundation and that the materials with which we build have spiritual survival capability ( 1 Cor. |
| 22 | And just when we are recording the first positive signs of an upward trend in sales and net profit margins we are hit with the financial problems of a major hotel group like Queens Moat Houses . |
| 23 | Dear Virginia , — Before Christmas last ( 22 October ) , you were reported in Hansard , during a debate on The Health of the Nation , as saying : ‘ I have degrees from Essex University and the London School of Economics , I have worked for the Child Poverty Action Group , and have lived with the defeatist talk that we are hearing from the hon Gentleman [ Mr David Blunkett ] . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | With computer graphics of stunning beauty , we are conducted through the weird world of Koch curves , Seirpinski carpets , Menger sponges , Fatou dusts , self-squared dragons , and Apollonian gaskets . |
| 26 | We are hoping for the best for Over The Road , who has shown no signs of suffering any virus at the moment . ’ |
| 27 | But in doing this , we are backtracking into the old dilemma identified by the American philosopher John Dewey ( 1966 ) . |
| 28 | No we 're not actually losing money but I mean with Traidcraft we are getting to the low point where we put borrowed stock |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Once again we are led to the provisional conclusion that the poll tax was only one variable determining party support in individual district authorities , not least because of the problems voters had in deciding where responsibility lay . |