Example sentences of "we are [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are looking for two things . |
| 2 | I 'm sure most people know by know , that er this show will be coming to you live from Sydney , Australia , for a whole week to mark Australia Day at the end of January , and er the interesting thing from your point of view , is that we are looking for two couples , can be a husband and wife , er mother and daughter , father and son , any combination really , just a couple of friends . |
| 3 | In our selection procedure we are looking for three main characteristics . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Distance has no meaning when we are looking at 125 miles so we look at time ; we will paddle for four hours and then have a five minute break . |
| 6 | We are faced with one of the unhappiest young generations we have ever had — antisocial , with juvenile delinquency causing immense distress , not least to the young themselves . |
| 7 | Beginning then with our closer relatives , we are faced with three rather similar forms , the orang-utan , the gorilla , and the chimpanzee , and a rather more distant set of relatives , the gibbon , and the siamang . |
| 8 | We are met by one of the directors of the firm who takes us to a showroom for coffee . |
| 9 | Everywhere we go , we are escorted by three guards carrying AK-47s . |
| 10 | And we are seeing in eighteen thirty a significant gap between on the one hand erm the western powers and on the other hand the east european or the central and eastern european powers . |
| 11 | As there are only 20 Liberal Democrats in the House — although we are supported by 23 per cent . |
| 12 | For example on our larger ships we are catering for 1900 passengers and 600 crew which means that about 7500 meals a day are consumed , excluding snacks and buffets . |
| 13 | This narrowing of focus does not mean that we are laying to one side the issues raised in these two chapters as now dispensed with . |
| 14 | Sylvia Andrews , breast screening services manager , said : ‘ Last year we screened 3,500 women and this time we are aiming for 4,600 . |
| 15 | Bill Wright said : ‘ We are dealing with two issues here . |
| 16 | Clearly , we are dealing with two quite different social phenomena . |
| 17 | As you will see from this issue of AEA Times , there has been an enormous response to the announcement that we are to restructure into three divisions from 1 April next year . |
| 18 | We are co-operating with three European business schools ( ESC Lyons , Henley Management College and ESADE , Barcelona ) to develop the International Management Institute of St Petersburg , and do not consider that the Community is ‘ making a hash ’ of technical assistance to the ex-Soviet Union . |
| 19 | There 's the lamps showing Lot number one O eight there we are showing for twenty pounds at twenty pounds for the lamps at twenty pounds anyone anyone want them ? |
| 20 | We do not need such unthinkable experiments because we are surrounded by thousands of only slightly less dramatic examples of the lack of a fixed relationship between tissue damage and pain . |
| 21 | Scientific writings were read widely by educated people , unlike today , when we are divided into two cultures by the inaccessibility of science to non-experts . |
| 22 | ONE of the characters in Barbusse 's great war novel , Le Feu , comments bitterly while on leave ; ‘ We are divided into two foreign countries . |
| 23 | The room we share is not large , but we are divided from one another by a plastic curtain . |
| 24 | Throughout the day , we are travelling from one place to another — sometimes round the corner , sometimes round the world — on foot , by car , bus , train , taxi , ship , horse or plane . |
| 25 | And so therefore at any one time we are working , I mean that 's what we do , you know we are working at one particular area . |
| 26 | So we are left with two problems . |
| 27 | We are left with one possibility — that it originated as a road from one of the royal demesne farms to the royal hunting lodge of Woodstock . |
| 28 | As for other jurists , six out of eleven cases seem to be interpolated , so we are left with five , one of Pomponius and four of Paul . |
| 29 | If we disregard the 200 or so pulp novels written early in his career , we are left with 193 novels of which the Maigret series is the most famous . |
| 30 | WE ARE SITTING in one of Nirvana 's dressing rooms after the taming of the bullring . |