Example sentences of "[subord] we are [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Review your situation in the light of the preceding pages asking yourself , ‘ Are there areas of church life where we are operating in the dark , and where hard evidence would help us do things better ? ’ |
| 2 | English Heritage chooses now to stress the responsibility of the many boroughs of which London is made up : ‘ Our policy is , in consultation with the boroughs , and over an agreed programme , to withdraw from the exercise of our powers where we are duplicating their functions ’ . |
| 3 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 4 | Perhaps the biggest area of misunderstanding here is in our approach to our American customers and competitors , where we are lulled into complacency by our similar language . |
| 5 | Whatever the reason , that kind of perspective is anathema to higher education , where we are trying to widen students ' horizons . |
| 6 | A spokesman for the Irish RFU , confirming it would also debate the plan , said : ‘ All countries are finding there is congestion with league fixtures and — in the case of Scotland and ourselves where we are trying to get the district/provincial structure in as well as a prelude to the Five Nations — that the pre-Christmas period is getting very congested . |
| 7 | In ( 19 ) and ( 20 ) we have the less common case of a property extended by an entity , E P ; we continue to assume that a qualified property remains a property : Where we are considering some actual form of words with a view to describing their categorizations and relationships , and especially where the phrases are somewhat more complex , it may be appropriate to partly invert the notation , and to omit the separate representation of the word-meaning , as in ( 21 ) which so depicts the intensional structure of ( 18 ) and ( 19 ) : Qualification is clearly an ordered relation and we shall assume that it is a binary relation ; one of the two elements related is the principal element ( on co-ordination , see Section 1.9 and Chapter 8 ) . |
| 8 | This is so refreshing in our instant culture , where we are invited to ‘ do ’ the Lake District in a week ! |
| 9 | The South , where we are based , is a holidaymaker 's paradise with its fantastic wide , sandy beaches , sports facilities galore , high quality modern accommodation and an abundance of night-spots . |
| 10 | The very day that we began to meet in the community centre where we are based , three mothers with their children began to attend . |
| 11 | This not only reinforces our licence to operate in established areas but also supports our being welcomed to new areas where we are developing our business . |
| 12 | Where we are acting as independent valuers , MAS may resist releasing a completed valuation report before physically receiving the agreed payment for the report . |
| 13 | Under the Government 's Citizen 's Charter initiative , we have published a charter leaflet detailing what customers can expect from us , and the 1993 Corporate Pan emphasises areas where we are improving our services . |
| 14 | Where we are held to be contracting carriers for the purposes of air or sea carriage please note that our liability is limited in the manner provided by relevant international conventions , ‘ special contract ’ with Governments or UK statute law . |
| 15 | We 've got clients , for example , where we are waiting for the sale of land to get our monies in , so it 's reasonable to expect that we 'll see that within the next three years . |
| 16 | Where we are reimbursing another insurance company in respect of their outlay it is not necessary to obtain sight of the original invoice . |
| 17 | This autumn join Harpers & Queen On Location at Harvey Nichols , Knightsbridge , London SW1 , where we are hosting an accessories extravaganza to celebrate the opening of their newly refurbished department . |
| 18 | Dr Bacher , who confessed to feeling ‘ incredibly emotional , ’ said he was ‘ really happy we could take two teams on tour — the senior side which demonstrates where we are coming from , and the youth team where we are going . ’ |
| 19 | It is to reach a position where we are no longer assailed by doubts and uncertainties , where we know who we really are and where we are going . |
| 20 | During the past week I have been watching the Germanic guru , Ralf Dahrendorf , on the box , telling us Britishers just where we are going wrong . |
| 21 | We have to take lessons with an open mind and a humility so that we may find out where we are going wrong . |
| 22 | ‘ Is he going where we are going ? |
| 23 | Still , never mind — we will just have to make do with animal furs and leather where we are going . |
| 24 | Where we are going ( 1700 England ) they have only just got over periodic waves of bubonic plague . |
| 25 | You may tell Lady Amelia where we are going for our walk and that we will return shortly . ’ |
| 26 | They put down on paper where we are going with the reserve and how we should achieve our objectives . " |
| 27 | Describing Bell Lawrie as ‘ old friends of ours ’ , Brewin 's managing director , John Hall said yesterday : ‘ We are at the moment in negotiations , but it is pretty difficult to say too much until it is clear where we are going . ’ |
| 28 | And here , where we are walking right now , was the very heart of their financial empire . |
| 29 | The two elements are equally well reconciled in ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , where we are introduced to the workings of the ‘ Spirit ’ to a large degree ; the very setting of the poem , where the poet finds that ‘ at my side my cradled infant slumbers peacefully ’ suggests the power of creation ; it is partly owing to the silent yet undeniable presence of the product of his own regeneration that allows Coleridge to ascend to the levels of ‘ meditation with its strange and extreme silentness ’ . |
| 30 | This will be someone else 's garden where we are standing . |