Example sentences of "we are [adv] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is the first time in 30 years that an international financial institution has been created , and we are not simply a bank , but also a political endeavour . |
| 2 | ‘ We are not just a temple to gold and glass but should turn our attention to daily life ’ |
| 3 | We are not just a temple to gold and glass , but should turn our attention to daily life in all its many aspects . |
| 4 | He derided those who thought it was ‘ all right to stay in opposition so long as your socialist heart is pure ’ , and argued it was not they who suffered , but the poor in Britain and in the third world : ‘ We are not just a debating society . |
| 5 | We are not today a society which can draw upon such political intellects as guided America in the age of Jefferson and Hamilton . |
| 6 | Had people coming in , they noticed that we are n't just a building there offering financial services , but we were actually interested again , in the local community . |
| 7 | The good news is that we are already over a quarter of the way towards our target , having raised the sum of £34,055 in the six weeks since the trial . |
| 8 | By the end of 1937 , Gilbert Murray himself , now committed to rearmament , was confiding privately : ‘ We are no longer a peace Party opposing a Jingo party . |
| 9 | But we have a major domestic and international economic crisis ; the Europeans and Japanese are a competitive problem ; even some Americans say we are no longer a world power . |
| 10 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
| 11 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 12 | We are too much a prey to the belief that if one kind of education is good , another must be bad , or at least worse than the good . |