Example sentences of "[subord] we [am/are] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You may tell Lady Amelia where we are going for our walk and that we will return shortly . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ So we are looking for someone who knew his business . ’ |
| 4 | Joan Daniels ' term of office expires at the 1987 Annual General Meeting , so we are looking for a new treasurer . |
| 5 | ‘ At least it is dry now so we are aiming for a real performance . ’ |
| 6 | Something which seems to be soluble at some stage and the water gets hot and it 's not soluble , so we 're looking for things here that are not not soluble . |
| 7 | Er our distribution system has got great press recently and it 's regarded as one of the three best distribution systems in the U K. One of the things we 're trying to do is to pay less for our books , it 's very easy to pay very very fancy prices for , for er mid-range authors and for them not to earn out , so we 're looking for much cheaper books . |
| 8 | Yeah okay , so we 're looking for results . |
| 9 | Yes , hopefully we 'll get a big crowd today , Ron Atkinson 's coming to present the , the new strip before the game , so we 're hoping for a big crowd . |
| 10 | ‘ So we 're going for a walk , I take it ? |
| 11 | If we are to vote for the family because it is good , warm and loving , what are we to do if it turns cold ? ’ ; it well-nigh accused Labour of giving ‘ a sharp twist to a competitive spiral of wholesome image making ’ ; and it stated that the Tory Government must be defeated by ‘ the issues ’ . |
| 12 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |
| 13 | If we are acting for a group of shareholders , some of whom may not be Corporate Finance Clients ( eg in the sale of shares in a family business where any of the shareholders have no active business interests ) , care must be exercised . |
| 14 | If we are looking for nonsense , this suggestion is a prime example . |
| 15 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 16 | If we are looking for a separation of science from religion in the seventeenth century , we shall surely find it . |
| 17 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 18 | We look and listen with more attention if we are viewing for a purpose . |
| 19 | Yes , there may be some waste in the Health Service , but I would suggest if we are to look for savings then start at the top . |
| 20 | Western science — like our medicine — is notoriously dismissive of anything that smacks of the spiritual life that our civilisation seems so carelessly to have thrown away.Yet if we are to survive for another thousand years , we desperately need to rediscover this aspect of being human ; not only as a reaction to the yuppie ‘ me first ’ generation of the Eighties but as the only means of re-establishing the synergy between man and planet.This requires a radical shift in our attitudes . |
| 21 | ‘ If we 're acting for the smaller firm it invariably happens , and if and when we 're acting for the larger firm we always identify the key partners in the smaller firm and bring them into the new management team , ’ Mr Llambias reveals . |
| 22 | It 's fin okay if we 're looking for a thirtieth we 'd find thirty in there . |
| 23 | If we 're asking for somebody to persuade the giant to leave us in peace , ask those whose hands are highest : " What qualities are going to be needed here ? |
| 24 | If they 've never advertised before which is unlikely if we 're going for high fli you know high flier |
| 25 | Still , if we 're going for around . |
| 26 | I think the only danger of looking at E D P , is that if we 're doing for the guys in the office , then what do we do with the supervisors ? |
| 27 | Few of us ( unless we are looking for this ) want to become fixated with interest on another individual . |
| 28 | We do n't do things out of choice or purpose but because we are rewarded for what we do . |
| 29 | But to get why when er why we want to pay your commission and er it it 's because we are looking for three pieces of paper |
| 30 | The pattern is very much first half er , erm , loss or small profit , second half all the profit and in fact you should watch out for the bigger , the bigger Addison Wesley gets , the more the loss in the second half will be because we 're investing for that sale |