Example sentences of "we are [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | That requires more people to carry out the Conservative Government Acts of Parliament , and we are bound to employ more people to do that . |
2 | Indeed , if we are going to give a full account of what practitioners do within a discipline , we are bound to use such terms as deciding , assessing , evaluating , judging and criticising . |
3 | It is obvious that we are bound to find considerable variation in people 's experience of support between kin . |
4 | We have maintained the real value of the basic retirement pension since we took office in 1979 and we are pledged to continue this policy . |
5 | So , as another week starts , we are challenged to live this week as the Lord 's servants , working with humility because He deserves all the praise — not us , and not minding the tears which may come our way . |
6 | In a sense , we all understand perfectly well what experiences are ; it is when we are challenged to explain this understanding that we are at a loss how to put it into words . |
7 | Can I say that we are now organising quite tightly the business of street collections , and I think if committee are minded to reduce the number of collections that we allow , we should decide that before we come to this meeting , because I think it 's very difficult in practical terms to do it at this stage , and therefore I would suggest that we do agree twenty-one , not withstanding what Graham said , we can take on board some of what he said , and maybe the month before we are asked to take this decision , we have an item on the agenda where we discuss the principle before we get down to the practicalities . |
8 | Remember that this is the only national fundraising that we are asked to do each year and that this year HQ are allowing us to keep 20% of the cash for our branch funds … so come along the other 75% , let's find those books of tickets and get the stubs ( and the £2 ) to , |
9 | Although this is not a matter in respect of which we are asked to grant any relief , I believe that Lautro should reconsider its practice in this respect , and consider deferring the issue of a press notice until after the person affected has had the opportunity to apply for the notice to be rescinded and to make representations to that effect , and Lautro 's board have ruled in the application . |
10 | In general , we are asked to pay higher salaries to experienced , but ‘ unqualified ’ , technicians than we are to inexperienced but highly ‘ qualified ’ architects of the same age . |
11 | Now we are asked to consider this proposition in the face of local opposition which ranges from sullen resentment to armed threat — said local opposition being only some 25 supersonic minutes away for that bogeyman of the south Atlantic airways , the Super Etendard jet fighter . |
12 | The more intellectual and sophisticated we become , the more we are tempted to assign all sorts of reasons to why we have contact with particular people . |
13 | But if we are tempted to share that judgement and the prejudice behind it , the compiler of Genesis would have us think again . |
14 | Their ability to demand high wages was by 1790 causing some employers to dislodge their hold by introducing machinery : " we are determined to destroy all sorts of Masheens for printing in the Kingdom " , runs one of the milder sentences in an anonymous letter from the journeymen received by one employer . |
15 | None-the-less , we are determined to fill those places by the New Year and then go back to the Department of Employment for more . ’ |
16 | We have already made clear that we are determined to encourage management-employee buy-outs . |
17 | We are determined to reduce this fear . |
18 | ‘ We are determined to get this beast , ’ said a top police source yesterday . |
19 | Thus we are led to consider such topics as carry-lookahead for addition , Booth 's algorithm for multiplication , and non-restoring methods for division . |
20 | The interruption is so violent that we are led to infer other reasons for such a display besides his annoyance with McKendrick himself and , significantly , Stoppard 's comments hint at this in the words " uncharacteristic " and surprising " . |
21 | Women often feel that they are not at risk because they do not feel themselves to be associated with any of the so called ‘ high risk groups ’ and , although we are encouraged to have safer sex , AIDS does not really seem to be an issue for us . |
22 | The words stay the same , but we are forced to ask awkward questions about how much their meaning has altered . |
23 | But to no avail … so we are forced to take industrial action . |
24 | After an overall view of the existing conditions in prisons , we are constrained to record that prison organisation in India does not conform to the required standards of a correctional department . |
25 | We are equipped to make mental calculations of risk and odds , within the range of improbabilities that would be useful in human life . |
26 | We are exhorted to get all women planning a pregnancy to consume a supplement of 400 µg folic acid or folate daily and to continue through the first trimester . |
27 | We are expected to make seasonal adjustments to change our clothes , make-up and even our bodies in accordance with fashion . |