Example sentences of "we are [v-ing] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all that we are requiring of him is that , widening his viewpoint from himself to the community , he has taken account of the communal effects of theft , before , as himself not the weigher but the balance , he allows himself finally to settle against or in favour of taking the money . |
| 2 | Q : We should like to spend a holiday touring Scotland but , as neither of us drives , we are thinking of joining a coach tour . |
| 3 | So many people enjoyed it that we are thinking of something similar for the Christmas holidays . |
| 4 | ‘ It is an international organization we are thinking of . |
| 5 | We are thinking of the advantaged children . |
| 6 | We are thinking of buying a small estate outside the city , three or four acres , so that we could have a real nice ranch-type bungalow — and keep some riding horses . ’ |
| 7 | Learning is a ‘ free commodity ’ , but only so long as we are thinking of knowledge as a source of intrinsic , expressive rewards . |
| 8 | In the coal mines we are thinking of producing just one-third of our present output . |
| 9 | Secondly , we are thinking of selling a part of state property to domestic investors who have enough capital to do this . |
| 10 | We are thinking of people between the ages of about 35 and about 60 years ; but one would not care to argue these limits to within five years or so . |
| 11 | If we are thinking of taking a lord of the manor to a Court of Assize we need to have a watertight case . ’ |
| 12 | I hope that we will , I will debate even in this late hour , it 's not too late to debate this very important issue and let the people out there know that we are thinking of them , not just about the things that happened early on today but least that we are responsible enough to dis to discuss this motion and to press and press and press again so the government , hoping the government will do a U- turn , if you do n't you 'll be gone forever . |
| 13 | We used to have less than that and now we are thinking of going to ten , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Now animals share much of this pre-linguistic heritage with us , in varying degrees depending upon whether we are speaking of gibbons or goldfish , but ( pace Washoe ) stop short of speaking and the consequent metamorphosis of the prototypes that goes with it . |
| 15 | For this is what matters in Christology ; we are speaking of Jesus as the Christ . |
| 16 | In so far as it is the case that , in the classical doctrine of the trinity , it is said that the three persons are alike in all save their mutual relations , when we are speaking of Christ as God , as the second person of the trinity , it can not be said of Christ that he is ‘ male ’ . |
| 17 | One should comment however that God in God 's unity , if we are speaking of monotheism , has in fact been conceived as male and not female ! |
| 18 | Also , given what has been said , that a mental event is wholly within consciousness , it is also true that in speaking of the mental life of people , in a large sense of the term , we are speaking of more than mental events . |
| 19 | If we speak of control , we are speaking of empowerment , a now much abused word , but one which still conveys the sense of movement from situations of experienced powerlessness , both individual and collective , to one where people acquire some measure of determination in the course of events and policies . |
| 20 | Of course we are speaking of those cases where the state is not put to an action if the citizen refuses to pay . |
| 21 | Of course we are speaking of those cases where the state is not put to an action if the citizen refuses to pay . |
| 22 | Of course we are speaking of those cases where the state is not put to an action if the citizen refuses to pay . |
| 23 | ‘ We are speaking of murder , ’ said Radulfus austerely . |
| 24 | Comrades , what we are asking of the Party is quite simple , the extension of democracy . |
| 25 | ‘ We are talking of the art of the conjuror … ’ |
| 26 | We are talking of two very perceptive men — whose métier is perception ; and their recollection of Leonard at this young age , his late teenage years . |
| 27 | We are talking of them being competitive a long way down the road . ’ |
| 28 | A B&Q spokesman said last night : ‘ Because our store was the closest to the viaduct it took the full force of the blast and it could well be that we are talking of a complete demolition . |
| 29 | Fear can not be experienced at the same time as love — whether we are talking of love of an individual , of mankind , of the world or of yourself . |
| 30 | Here we are talking of the emotional covenant , the often unconscious commitment to make the selves of the two partners more whole through the interchange between them — a commitment to stay with the struggle of maturation within the relationship . |