Example sentences of "we [am/are] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1990s , again we are jumping to a new technology — object-oriented programming — as the answer to developing and delivering quality software on time . |
| 2 | That we can not make those leaps of vision so because we are bound to a cultural view which denies their possibility . ’ |
| 3 | Here I just want to concentrate on what may be required if we are to shift to a different mode of argumentation . |
| 4 | Accordingly , we are treated to an immediate and excellent example of Johnson 's mind at work . |
| 5 | While Adamski cues his samples and activates his drum programs , we are treated to an enthusiastic , if inaudible , bongo player , and tow backing singers , one of whom has the added advantage of being a fine mover . |
| 6 | While Adamski cues his samples and activates his drum programs , we are treated to an enthusiastic , if inaudible , bongo player , and tow backing singers , one of whom has the added advantage of being a fine mover . |
| 7 | Surely not , because we feel that we are listening to a true story of a real person , and if we grant this , then feelings connected with relieving distress are more likely to arise in us than purely poetic emotions . |
| 8 | If we do pay attention to his thought we feel we are listening to a public orator of unimpeachably orthodox Christian principles , a Poet Laureate in training — he did not in fact attain this honour until the reign of Queen Victoria in 1843 . |
| 9 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 10 | Could he also tell me whether he said on 16 December 1983 : ’ We are committed to a non-nuclear defence policy ? ’ |
| 11 | However , we are committed to a full examination of all the issues and to a round of producer meetings later this year , ’ he said . |
| 12 | We are committed to a saner transport policy including better public transport . |
| 13 | We are committed to a saner transport policy including better public transport . |
| 14 | We are committed to a saner transport policy including better public transport and this , as I mentioned , must ultimately benefit the majority of NFC employees . |
| 15 | Nevertheless we are committed to a meritocratic society . |
| 16 | We are committed to an effective regional industrial policy . |
| 17 | Solitary confinement is recognized to be one of the most psychologically damaging punishments that can be imposed upon any individual and if , like Robinson Crusoe , we are subjected to an enforced exile , whilst some people will no doubt cope better than others , few will willingly choose isolation or loneliness as a favoured way of life . |
| 18 | In the modern world , we are reduced to an idealized figment of the communist imagination or we fall into secular despair , but we can not be exalted as a personal being , uniquely loved for our own sake . |
| 19 | But we are travelling to a little-known corner of the glove , remember . |
| 20 | Through the service of humanity , and by action in the cause of brotherhood , we are brought to a better understanding of Truth . |
| 21 | ‘ We are talking to a small number of selected companies with the aim of making an acquisition , a partial acquisition or an alliance , ’ says Xavier Ribas , EDS director of marketing for southern Europe . |
| 22 | Well we 're go , we 're going to a close , so let me finally ask you yo thi this , i if you wanted to reassert one Scottish tradition , either an old one or a new one , wha what would it be ? |
| 23 | We 're going to a big house called Millfield . |
| 24 | We 're going to an organised display . |
| 25 | Erm which again would n't trouble Selby district , because we 're we 're committed to a new settlement . |