Example sentences of "[that] we are [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Perfect or absolute Truth , which is known by faith , is beyond our empirical grasp which means that we must act in the knowledge that we are holding on to such truth as we are able to apprehend in this world .
2 I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support for the document that we are publishing today on hospital hostels .
3 We 're moving to Shanghai with mixed feelings , as we 've heard we 'll be staying in the Peace Hotel , in the noisy centre of the city , but it 's nice to feel now that we are moving on to the home stretch .
4 When we add up all the indicators which show that we are moving closer to federal control , and balance them against the number which show that we are moving further away from central control , we are asking ourselves , what is the meaning of subsidiarity ?
5 Absolutely not , I think there 's a strong sense in the Party that moving forward with our traditional values , that what we have to do is to apply those traditional values to a very changed world , things are very different now from when the Labour Party was formed , or even from when the Labour Party was last in government , so that we keep our sense of values , they are what grounds us , but what makes us an effective government in the future is the fact that we are moving forward with the times , and the increasing representation of women is one of the things which is about moving us forward , and moving with the times .
6 Whether offensive or defensive strategies are being reassessed , the Gulf War has brought home the fact that automation has become the cornerstone of virtually all new military systems — so much so that we are moving steadily towards a fully automated battlefield .
7 [ I ] t seems to me that we are moving more and more in the direction of an elective dictatorship , not the less objectionable in principle because it is inefficient in practice , and not the less tyrannical in its nature because the opposed parties , becoming more and more polarized in their attitudes , seek with some prospects of success to seize the new levers of power and use them alternately to reverse the direction taken by their immediate predecessors .
8 Several months ago we were in the depths of recession but signs are encouraging that we are moving out of it . ’
9 When we add up all the indicators which show that we are moving closer to federal control , and balance them against the number which show that we are moving further away from central control , we are asking ourselves , what is the meaning of subsidiarity ?
10 Mr Mr I think it 's implicit in our own nature and in our own character and a known fact that we are constituted here as a general assembly and we indeed ascribe to that and I do n't think we need to affirm it on a lower level of what is in fact the very standard of our existence here er in a general assembly .
11 Director of Estates Mike Pilbeam comments ‘ I am very keen that Purchasing and Supply plays a full role in the development and implementation of the commercial strategy that we are pursuing generally in Estates where a key to success will be our relationship with our suppliers and our customers . ’
12 I have no doubt that we could around that figure but the Chief Officer rightly believes and indeed Her Majesty 's Inspector rightly believes that we are operating too much technology most of the time .
13 The o one thing that w we have to have in mind though is that the this particular criminal that we are does n't want to get caught .
14 ‘ But deep down we all know that we are faced today not with realities and images .
15 We learned to be open , honest and frank with the media and now we find that we are treated fairly . ’
16 I assure my hon. Friend that we are looking carefully at how best to take this forward .
17 I must stress that we are looking primarily , or we propose to look primarily , er , at the east of the county .
18 I believe I told you that we are to move on to the Astors ? ’
19 Now we begin a Part called Pre-trial Procedure and it may appear that we are progressing inexorably towards the courtroom .
20 The truth is that we are dealing not with one-off exceptional cases of hardship , affecting only a small minority of students , but with a widespread and damaging problem affecting thousands of students .
21 When one considers that we are dealing already with the principal mosaics of the period , twenty is very few .
22 ‘ And do n't forget , madam , that we are dealing here with a little viper who put a stink-bomb under my desk … ’
23 E is the energy spectrum of eqn ( 19.32 ) ; the dependence on t is shown as a reminder that we are dealing theoretically with a time-dependent situation .
24 In the above I have assumed that we are dealing only in values , and that we are not considering how prices of production , average rate of profit , etc. , are formed by the introduction of ‘ Dept .
25 That we are born again .
26 Taking ourselves back to our basic physical components , we can say that we are built up from multitudes of particles held together by electrical bonds of varying strengths or intensities .
27 It has become apparent on some of the issues , some of the comments that we made that was if I could call it the you 'll know what we 're talking about and I do n't if we are talking about the there was there was a point somewhere where talked about ing an increase or short of journey time along the ring road and this has been taken as I understand to be that we are setting out an increase of speed er traffic on the sections of road to a junction and that 's totally in force and it was either .
28 One can only conclude that we are presented here with a deliberately unpoetical poem , an assault upon the cultivated reader 's exquisite sensibility .
29 Andrew Holden , joint secretary of the Northern Examining Association , said : ‘ We will be looking at the position and seeing whether we think it is worthwhile to offer a similar scheme or whether we would prefer to cut the general level of fees so that we are competing on even terms . ’
30 I am afraid that we are assuming too much from this proposed change and that it is a little too simplistic — a sort of professional defamation from those who believe that applying law and order is the only way of solving what are , in part , deep-seated social problems .
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