Example sentences of "[be] we [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well now what we 're , we 're we looking for here ? |
| 2 | How 're we doing for time ? |
| 3 | How 're we doing for time ? |
| 4 | So what 're we playing for now ? |
| 5 | Are you , are we allowing for this or |
| 6 | Are we to account for the behaviour of the state in terms of the behaviour of its constituent bureaucracies ( and other agencies ) , or vice versa ? |
| 7 | Are we to account for the behaviour of a bureaucracy in terms of the behaviour of the human individuals comprising it , or vice versa ? |
| 8 | Where are we to account for the hints , implicit purposes , assumptions , social attitudes and so on that are effectively communicated by the use of language , not to mention the figures of speech ( e.g. metaphor , irony , rhetorical questions , understatement ) that have preoccupied theorists of rhetoric and literature ? |
| 9 | ‘ Where are we bound for ? ’ she asked . |
| 10 | ( What percentage of the business are we acting for ? ) |
| 11 | Mighty Quinn , made famous by Manfred Mann , was changed to Mighty Wyn as a tribute to Newcastle 's leaping centre forward , a Kinks ' song was amended to ‘ What are we living for , to see Sunderland in Division Four ’ and who can forget ‘ Half-a-sixpence is better than , Arthur Horsefield ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What are we searching for Barry ? ’ |
| 13 | What terms of reference are we suggesting for ourselves ? |
| 14 | Now one can say well what are we aiming for in terms of the sexual harassment free environment , and I think that what one would be aiming for is if not the atmosphere of a girls ' convent school one 's certainly aiming at an environment where women can work and study and interact without the sense of being constantly on display as sexual objects , and , you know , to that extent I do n't know if it is the case that a large number of the respondents are saying , you know , ‘ I have come from an environment when I have n't had to deal with this before , and I do n't expect to have to deal with it ’ then we should certainly sit up and take notice of that . |
| 15 | Before you start , ask yourself : what are our objectives , what message are we trying to get across , which people do we want to reach , what emotions should they feel , what responses are we looking for , what do we want them to take from this event — in person or through the media and press ? |
| 16 | Are we looking for freshness and flavour , or are we happy to forgo these for the headier feeling that longevity might be achieved if we avoid imbibing pesticide residues . |
| 17 | Are we looking for sincerity , value for money , and good design features ? |
| 18 | ‘ What exactly are we looking for ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ What are we looking for ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Who exactly are we looking for ? ’ asked a plain clothes man in the front row . |
| 21 | And what are we looking for there and there ? |
| 22 | what are we looking for then , down here ? |
| 23 | How many how many are we looking for ? |
| 24 | What sort of business are we looking for as a , as a group , as a company ? |
| 25 | Right , so we 're looking at the right price as well , O K , and what else are we looking for ? |
| 26 | Now what one are we looking for ? |
| 27 | And perhaps very , very lastly , what sort of time scale are we looking for ? |
| 28 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
| 29 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
| 30 | I know that they do have computer science courses at both O level and A level , do you think these will be the basis of the future courses , or are we looking for an entirely new development , something quite new and quite different , that stands as a subject in his own right ? |