Example sentences of "we [be] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we are to a point , you 're saying well they 're You feel guilty at times , that you 're not doing enough . |
| 2 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
| 3 | AND FAR from home , in terribly Anglophiled Boston , here we are with a lot of catching up to do , prior to the penultimate date of Carter 's six-week American tour . |
| 4 | Assume we are at a board position called MyPos , and it is the program 's turn to play . |
| 5 | That concentrated evil , that supreme almost supernatural cruelty , teaches us that we are at a parting of the ways , man 's salvation or man 's destruction . |
| 6 | I fear we are at a parting of the ways . |
| 7 | We are at a disadvantage in Britain in that we do not have a revolutionary doctrine to preach : a vivid message that promises an unattainable millennium . |
| 8 | Er , if the person er is sitting watching the television and er has been awake for several hours then we are at a disadvantage . |
| 9 | We have to confess that we are at a stage of understanding where any answer must be to some extent tentative . |
| 10 | We are at a loss to know the cause of Dr Dyer 's ‘ twinge of alarm ’ . |
| 11 | In a sense , we all understand perfectly well what experiences are ; it is when we are challenged to explain this understanding that we are at a loss how to put it into words . |
| 12 | As I see it , we are at a crossroad where far-reaching decisions must soon be made by women , by local authorities and central government . |
| 13 | We are into a run of milder winters at the moment , and the winter sea temperature is higher than normal , but appears to be still within the range of normal fluctuations . |
| 14 | And then the Date Line is passed , and we are into a segment of the Pacific best known for its unrivalled prosperity and good fortune : here is the United States , sharing with Japan the suzerain 's role ; and , sandwiched between its two continental divisions , the Dominion of Canada . |
| 15 | We are on a shore of white sand too hot to stand still for a moment , great breakers surf and trip to swathes of foam as we dart into the solid black and lovely shade . |
| 16 | Councillors say they are doing their best but Bill Dixon , chairman of the authority 's housing committee , admitted : ‘ We are on a knife edge . ’ |
| 17 | Politically we are on a razor edge . |
| 18 | We are on a roll and it 's great to be involved . ’ |
| 19 | It may be that biologically we are on a continuum , and on rare occasions a child is born whose sex is uncertain . |
| 20 | We are on a stamp ! |
| 21 | ‘ We are on a quest , ’ Cleo said , pre-empting Dauntless 's explanation . |
| 22 | Not , it must be repeated , because we are on a crusade . |
| 23 | Politically we are on a hiding to nothing in the long run and so I guess the only satisfactory way forward would be to leave badgers completely alone and compensate farmers in full for badger-related losses , including consequential losses . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But if Kevin keeps going , we are on a hiding to nothing . |
| 25 | ‘ We are on a par with anyone in the North-East . |
| 26 | We are on a train , I thought . |
| 27 | We are of a generation which is in dreadful danger of being anaesthetized morally . |
| 28 | We are in a state of perplexity . |
| 29 | When we are in a state of disease then the smooth calm surface is disrupted by ripples ( or even waves ! ) spreading out from the site of disturbance . |
| 30 | He stared at her in amazement , then again mocked , ‘ My goodness — we are in a state of tizziness . ’ |