Example sentences of "we are [v-ing] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in turning to social processes outside employment , we are shifting to a sphere of study which has been well trodden by urban sociology . |
| 2 | In the long term we are looking for a measure of the relationship between debt financing and equity financing . |
| 3 | We are looking for a compromise position between behaviourism , which identified mental states with some function of behaviour , and the approach common to the sceptical argument and the argument from analogy , which separates them too much . |
| 4 | We are looking for a couple of acres owned by the UMWA member which has become the focus of the strike : Camp Solidarity . |
| 5 | If we are looking for a separation of science from religion in the seventeenth century , we shall surely find it . |
| 6 | ‘ We are looking for a killer without ties . |
| 7 | We are looking for a reason of justice we all share for rejecting the checkerboard strategy in advance even if we would each prefer a checkerboard solution on some occasions to the one that will be imposed if the strategy is rejected . |
| 8 | As we saw in section 10.5 , we are looking for a line which will make the residual Y s as small as possible . |
| 9 | ‘ Be patient , Sir John , ’ Athelstan replied , ‘ Remember , we are looking for a pattern . |
| 10 | It takes far less time than full-scale autobiography , for we are looking for a profile of the significant events that have made you the distinctive person that you are ( warts and all , as they say ) . |
| 11 | However , as the real appeal of DTP is in its ability to manipulate pages it 's likely that we are looking for a page makeup product such as PageMaker or its many rivals . |
| 12 | We are looking for a graduate scientist/engineer with the ability to lead and motivate a team of four , generating ideas and carrying work forward , within deadlines and budget , to successful and practical solutions . |
| 13 | We are looking into a fog . |
| 14 | We are looking at a cost of about five hundred pound for these , plus two hundred pound shipping charges , and we 're going to need four or five of them . |
| 15 | Answering questions at a meeting with foreign journalists , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ We are looking at a scheme to have some people from Hong Kong , but it could n't be anything like the total number . ’ |
| 16 | I think the preamble the the the explanary explanatory text er with little two er indicates that really we are trying to address er erm a Greater York er dimension , that we are looking at a proposal er which meets the er development needs erm of Greater York over the period er that the contribution should be made through the new settlement . |
| 17 | ‘ We are looking at a number of exciting ideas from advertisers , it will be rather different . ’ |
| 18 | Put another way , certain elements are common to the corporatist perspective on politics in the West , and so , although there are different schools of theory , it is possible to fuse some of these together in order to recognise that we are looking at a perspective that bears on interests and the state within the contemporary period of economic development . |
| 19 | We are looking at a saving of £306 on our cheapest model , the Civic 1.3 DX , and a £1,991 saving on our most expensive model , the NSX . ’ |
| 20 | At its simplest we are looking at a sequence of events . |
| 21 | A sort of heat haze , as opposed to the intense burning sensation of the stripe paintings , emerges as if we are looking through a veil or over a great distance at flat lands . |
| 22 | If we are acting for a group of shareholders , some of whom may not be Corporate Finance Clients ( eg in the sale of shares in a family business where any of the shareholders have no active business interests ) , care must be exercised . |
| 23 | We are flying at a height of 11,000 metres and at a speed of just under 750kph . |
| 24 | ‘ We are flying at a height of 55,000 feet at 1,352 miles per hour , ’ said the Thing . |
| 25 | We are participating in a number of oil and motor industry programmes that are addressing key environmental issues in our markets . |
| 26 | Drawing attention to ‘ the decline in Church attendance during the last twenty years ’ , ‘ the greater freedom from restraint which is characteristic of our age ’ and ‘ this rejection of conventional standards ’ , Roy and Theodora Calvert in The Law-Breaker ( 1933 ) announced that ‘ we are passing through a crisis in morals ’ . |
| 27 | The other is that the English landscape has never been static but has always been changing , for better or worse Today we are passing through a period which can perhaps be regarded as a disaster . |
| 28 | We are passing on a letter we have received from a firm of accountants that is acting for the BSM , asking you to contact them . |
| 29 | Later today we shall be able to debate further the great improvement in standards that we are achieving as a result of our reforms . |
| 30 | If we are listening to a story and somebody says So I ate it we may well know the meaning of it from somewhere earlier in the story . |