Example sentences of "we [am/are] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suchocka declared : " After three years of reforms , we are at a turning point . |
| 2 | I think we are at a turning point for this company and the industry . ’ |
| 3 | However , a number of theories argue that the changes are even bigger than this : that we are at a major historical turning-point in the nature of the UK economy and in its urban and regional geography . |
| 4 | Secondly , we are at a critical juncture , much as a seriously ill person may reach a ‘ turning point at which the patient either begins to improve or sinks into a fatal decline ’ . |
| 5 | If we are at an early stage of the work , still looking around for ideas and still perhaps ‘ hypothesis-seeking ’ , it is likely that we shall want to talk to people to try to get help , stimulation , new viewpoints , and so on . |
| 6 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 7 | Like a good Renaissance poet he replies that this is the principle of decorum ; his form merely recreates his subject-matter : We are inclined to smile at the self-depreciation , as we are at the similar joke in 105 : He has no need for other forms , other themes . |
| 8 | In fact , we are at the New Athenaeum Theatre at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where New Moves is presenting the Vicente Saez company from Spain , the first of three European groups to round off a superb season of dance . |
| 9 | Fortunately we are at the other end of the scale and a small tank should not pose such problems , imaginary or real . |
| 10 | Erm , so we are at the lower end of the authority charges . |
| 11 | ‘ We are at the lowest point in my 12 years here . |
| 12 | ‘ We are at the lowest point in my 12 years here . |
| 13 | Yet we are at the same time perturbed by more recent and present-day developments . |
| 14 | To sum up , in positing an item as an ontological existent we are at the same time by implication positing this item as a potential subject of a non-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates , and hence as completely determinate with regard to possible descriptions that may be given of it at any given time . |
| 15 | ‘ And here we are at the same time of year — well , they tell us it 's the same time of year , ’ he said , sarcastically , ‘ — and what we 're expected to eat are knobbly things actually grown in dirt ! |
| 16 | We are at the Red Flag stage with IT , and it is hardly possible to anticipate how the future will work out . |
| 17 | We are at the leading edge of the development of wind power , and must also have one of the most effective network of organisations , ranging from government bodies to the voluntary sector , involved in conservation and wildlife protection . |
| 18 | They said : ‘ We 're at a fact-finding stage . |
| 19 | ‘ The reason we drink is we 're at a loose end . ’ |
| 20 | We 're at a loose end , Cynthie and me — I 'm up at Trinity , you know , but I 've been ill — ha ha ! — and have to stay down this term . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're at an interesting point deciding what are the priorities for the next century ’ , he continued , ‘ and the areas to expand are education , and the use of technology in education ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're at the final state of putting proposals together . ’ |
| 23 | Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can . |
| 24 | We 're at the right speed here Peter , we 're okay . |
| 25 | We 're at the same position here as we were when we were selling out Harlow Square with the audience going mental . |
| 26 | She said , any time at all if we 're at the same time . |