Example sentences of "we are [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most bizarre of all these techniques , at least to our eyes , prejudiced as we are to a mammalian way of doing things , is that practised by Rhinoderma , a tiny frog that Darwin found in Southern Chile . |
| 2 | Well we are to a point , you 're saying well they 're You feel guilty at times , that you 're not doing enough . |
| 3 | Er and so we are looking at ways in which we can actually erm develop this and the firm as a whole is doing that as well and er we are to a certain extent that initiative . |
| 4 | People come up to us and say , ‘ You 're a joke band , ’ and we are to an extent , but ultimately the joke 's on you . |
| 5 | Accustomed as we are to the damp rigours of most Scottish self-catering properties , the Rannoch flats and apartments seem like paradise . |
| 6 | The fathers were as close to the New Testament as we are to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | A student , faced with discourse slightly beyond his or her current knowledge , is in the same position relative to that discourse as we are to the above . |
| 8 | The more sensitive we are to the possible stigmatising consequences of charity , the less motivation there will be for giving . |
| 9 | I must again stress how very grateful we are to the IBOA and AIB for their kindness in continuing to help put a little additional pleasure into the lives of our members . |
| 10 | ‘ Thus we live by hope and faith , thus we are for the most part able to realize what we will , and thus we accomplish the end of our being . |
| 11 | ‘ Day is done ’ is of course another Shakespearean echo , like the Dark Tower : ‘ The bright day is done ’ , says Iras to Cleopatra , ‘ and we are for the dark ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As long as we are in safe hands , while we are with a sincere man like B.L . |
| 15 | While we are with the greatest works of the period , mention must be made of a work of comparable distinction , the Doves Press edition of the Bible ( five volumes , 1903–5 ) , described by Colin Clair as ‘ in its magnificent simplicity one of the noblest books ever produced in this country ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ We have n't got to the predicting level yet but the more familiar we are with the patterns , the better able we will be to make educated guesses . ’ |
| 17 | Well Gordon and here we are with the erm the finished arrangement — are you pleased with it ? |
| 18 | He believes we are at a deeply significant turning point in human history and if we are to come through it we have to change not just the way people behave , but also the way in which they think . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We are at a loss to know the cause of Dr Dyer 's ‘ twinge of alarm ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We have to confess that we are at a stage of understanding where any answer must be to some extent tentative . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Assume we are at a board position called MyPos , and it is the program 's turn to play . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Suchocka declared : " After three years of reforms , we are at a turning point . |
| 29 | I fear we are at a parting of the ways . |
| 30 | Er , if the person er is sitting watching the television and er has been awake for several hours then we are at a disadvantage . |