Example sentences of "[that] we [am/are] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes people are surprised that we 're friends .
2 So be honest , Belinda , since we 've agreed that we 're friends . ’
3 I I mean I think I think in retrospect the erm this is n't intended as a criticism erm of past work , but I do think we need to look at getting as much volunteer help in the town towards volun volunt environmental achievements as possible because one of our one of our claims is that we 're cost effective and can galvanize voluntary effort , and if we erm put all of our work out to tender including relatively small works , we 're actually going to negate that particular claim and we 're gon na look as as as er cost cost wasteful as the district council and the county council in their use of professional help all the time , even though there may be people in the community who are prepared to help .
4 Are we content that that goes forward or , I mean , I do n't blame you for , having your little piece about the earlier things , but they really are n't particularly that issue that we 're discussion are they ?
5 Not that we 're idiots , we 're just very comfortable in being very blissful .
6 The problem at the moment is , we 've been on Word Processor up to now , but the designer is designing a programme at the moment , so I do n't have a programme to show you because it 's with the designer , erm all we 've got is the diary , that we 're kind of like again on the word processor , that we 're producing tonight .
7 ‘ Knocking Leeds United is n't exactly new , and now that we 're champions I suppose we 'll have to put up with it all the more . ’
8 Certainly I and probably all the other lesbians in BLGC have come across racism in the predominantly white lesbian movement , for instance , the idea that race and issues of imperialism are irrelevant all that matters is the fact that we 're women and lesbians and that 's the only way that people are oppressed .
9 ‘ No , Michael , I honestly think it 's the result of the system that we 're part of … ’
10 ‘ Do that , and , while you 're about it , try to remember that we 're colleagues , and that colleagues do not go around kissing one another !
11 I feel that we 're equals , that you 'll never allow me to dominate you .
12 I 'm very concerned that if we do n't get some urgent remedial action to do this brickwork , that we 're gong to have a major problem down there .
13 ‘ Well , for a start , we must try to make Biff understand that we 're people . ’
14 erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way .
15 Now that we 're lovers we 're closer still . ’
16 The fact is that — that we 're oil and water .
17 But certainly prefer to see that pensions , that encompass all working people and from the time that we 're men to work until they retire and that something is arrange for the person 's when they 're senior citizens .
18 But now this week , from what I put in the paper it 's obvious that we 're traders
19 and discover that we 're Sisters Under The Skin .
20 I think Americans and Russians find it strange that we are 100% funded by government and over 50% of the cases we bring are against government departments .
21 Searle asserts this , while accepting that we are machines .
22 ‘ And have all society say that we are cowards ? ’
23 Atkinson said : ‘ It 's barmy that we are favourites .
24 Lord of the church , we remember that we are members of a worldwide family , Your church .
25 Director of Climb For The World , Edwin Drummond said ‘ We are promoting the concept that we are citizens of one world .
26 The programme thus expresses the reality that we are citizens of one world and are members of a world association committed to international solidarity and regional diversity .
27 And it will they made it quite clear that we are way ahead particularly of people like the S and T
28 ‘ The prime minister has insisted that we are part of the investigation , ’ said Woodward , when he saw that Duncan had finished the report .
29 Canadians have been raised on the myth that we are part of a rich cultural mosaic , in stark contrast to the self-centred egotism of the US melting pot to the south .
30 It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers .
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