Example sentences of "we [am/are] [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again we are faced with a shift in cultural values . |
| 2 | On our first call , from a dreadlocked Rastaman , we are faced with a clapped-out Mini Clubman . |
| 3 | At a time when Europe is moving ever closer towards economic union we are faced with a stark choice of either improving our economic performance or watching the UK become a marginalised and minor economic player . |
| 4 | We are faced with a fund of conflicting speculations . |
| 5 | In turning to trusts we are faced with a similar problem , and similarly desperate evidence . |
| 6 | ‘ Well gentlemen , ’ he said , ‘ we are faced with a very grave situation . |
| 7 | There are four fairly essential bits of information to consider when we are faced with a decision requiring forgiveness : |
| 8 | But nowadays not everyone is so ready to accept such divisions as unalterable , and if one holds the not unreasonable belief that the existence of wealth is one cause of poverty , then clearly we are faced with a more difficult choice : either to tolerate the existence of both wealth and poverty , or to aim at abolishing poverty , in which case we have no option but to attack wealth . |
| 9 | But here we are faced with a dilemma . |
| 10 | But we are faced with a cultural problem where descriptive work goes unrewarded , and systematics and taxonomy are often treated as one . |
| 11 | So we are faced with a fundamental problem . |
| 12 | Community educators in particular would argue that we are faced with a crisis of a similar magnitude — a crisis in social , economic and political structures and a ‘ cultural ’ upheaval like the one in the early nineteenth century outlined by Johnson . |
| 13 | They make good the severe limitations on the hesitation system , which can take us only so far when we are faced with a problem of word retrieval . |
| 14 | Just when we thought it was safe to dip a toe into the poll tax water , we are faced with a poll tax mark II . |
| 15 | We are faced with a Government who are determined to get the Bill on to the statute book before an election . |
| 16 | We are faced with a moral choice : do we allow our youngsters to be exploited ? |
| 17 | As on so many occasions when we discuss matters in the House , we are faced with a conflict between principles , each of which is important , and with the question of how properly to resolve such a conflict . |
| 18 | We are faced with a backlog of £3.5 billion of school repairs . |
| 19 | ‘ We are faced with a number of choices , Master , ’ I replied . |
| 20 | There is no future in raising subscriptions to a point where we are faced with a genuine reluctance , and in some cases a real inability , to pay . |
| 21 | The British legal system is already in a bit of a sorry state but this is only part of the story because we are faced with a creaking Government bureaucracy that has often been shown by the Higher Courts to be acting in an illegal and unfair manner . |
| 22 | So , in the new birth we are born with a nature of our , of our father , our heavenly father the , God himself . |
| 23 | If we are to continue with a system of grants for specific operations on the land we must ask ourselves whether , in many crofting areas , we would not get better land use , and a greater benefit to the nation , if we grant-aided amenity planting on the in-bye land to improve the appearance of the villages . |
| 24 | That we are dealing with a privileged élite goes without saying ; as also that it depended on the institution of domestic service . |
| 25 | Nevertheless in Ezra we are dealing with a creative artist who never — however impatient he was — sold his birthright for a mess of pottage . |
| 26 | If we are dealing with a ‘ suburban tomb ’ , then the word suburban suggests , though it need not mean , the life of the modern city . |
| 27 | Making the confederacy a ‘ stage ’ is therefore highly misleading since this gives the impression that we are dealing with a recurrent phenomenon . |
| 28 | If so , we are dealing with a more Quixotic , romantic or principled figure than some of us used to think . |
| 29 | … naive social realism in a minor key … a potentially crippling form … it still remains the case that present-day discussion of British fiction is strongly influenced by a widely-held conviction that we are dealing with a literature in decline . |
| 30 | It can be seen , then , that we are dealing with a condition that is some two or three times as common as gonorrhoea , for which an organism is implicated and can be grown in perhaps 50 per cent of cases ; and yet there are no facilities , generally , for its isolation . |