Example sentences of "we are [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to realise that we are not taking into account all the competing paths produced by poor acoustic-phonetic labelling . |
| 2 | We are not disturbed by slowness , for what goes slow can run deep . |
| 3 | There is still a sense in which the relation between words and object can be called ‘ arbitrary ’ , since we are not dealing with onomatopeia , but it is quite unproblematical . |
| 4 | I know that many killings are done for next to nothing but we are not dealing with street muggers or footloose louts , we are dealing with the middle-aged and the middle-class-people who know which side their bread is buttered and value their reputations almost more than their deeds and their share certificates . |
| 5 | We are not trying to foist them upon you . |
| 6 | It gives me great satisfaction but we are not shouting about being second for what might be a few hours . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But we are peaceful people and we are not looking for revenge . |
| 8 | ‘ We are not looking for domination , but equality , ’ he said , again demanding that Sinn Fein must be included in political talks . |
| 9 | But alas , as you say , we are not made with money . ’ |
| 10 | We are not made for life or anything like that but there is a fair bit coming in . |
| 11 | I discovered that we are not born with guilt , we acquire it . |
| 12 | We are not starting from square one ! |
| 13 | We are not starting from square one ! ’ |
| 14 | But we are not talking about faith — which must necessarily be an intensely private , intensely subjective affair . |
| 15 | What we need to understand is that we are not talking about career , but about serving Christ and finding the most effective means to win the lost . |
| 16 | No one can achieve anything without the help of others and we are not talking about militancy , more the desire to support people in their quest to put Darlington to rights . |
| 17 | We are not talking of resurrection experiences here but of people needing to see for themselves what has been reported to them , so that the fact becomes obvious and denial or alternative explanations are less credible . |
| 18 | ‘ We are not dumping at present but we wish to keep our options open . |
| 19 | No , you say , all in control , we are not going to sleep together . |
| 20 | We equate service with menial tasks ; we are not educated in service management and we lack good examples or models of service excellence . |
| 21 | Unlike many organisations with sporting connections we are not oriented to competition but to participation . |
| 22 | Unlike many organisations with sporting connections we are not oriented to competition but to participation . |
| 23 | Unlike many organisations with sporting connections we are not oriented to competition but to participation . |
| 24 | As Althusser was keen to emphasize , according to Marx morality works simply as a form of ideological control , and Levinas concurs that ‘ everyone will readily agree that it is the highest importance to know whether we are not duped by morality ’ ( 21 ) . |
| 25 | We are not betrayed by enemy or foe , but by our nearest and dearest , or , at least , by our normally reliable friend . |
| 26 | But we are n't made of steel . |
| 27 | Travel is easier and we are continuously bombarded with information about distant places . |
| 28 | We are similarly committed in connection with nomic correlates . |
| 29 | We are also focusing on exploration projects which will give us the opportunity to find larger oil and gas deposits at lower costs . |
| 30 | That is especially so at this time , when we are effectively handing from Parliament to Ministers the right to decide , on private Bills , to lay orders . |