Example sentences of "[Wh det] we [am/are] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 2 | At root , the educational changes with which we are engaged are fuelled by rapidly changing socio-economic patterns , and the particular political drive given to these at the moment is of much less importance ( in anything other than the short term ) than we may often feel to be the case . |
| 3 | It is one of the most significant and important respects in which the recession from which we are recovering is different from all previous recessions . |
| 4 | At the end of the last chapter , it was apparent that the classification scheme which we are using is fallible . |
| 5 | Although the current rise in unemployment , now slowing down , which we are witnessing is frustrating and to some extent avoidable , the Labour party 's criticism of the Government 's record is both hypocritical and deceitful . |
| 6 | The question thus with which we are confronted is that of whether this religion can contain the new consciousness of women . |
| 7 | The consequence is that we have placebo responses to blank tablets and much stronger placebo responses to intravenous injections of saline which we are told is some new wonder drug . |
| 8 | The green left sleeve brassard carries a red-on-yellow rampant Lion of Scotland patch , which we are told is special to the CO and his crew . |
| 9 | I am grateful to the Minister for at least informing us that £500,000 of public money has been invested in Stagecoach in order , presumably , to help establish the level playing field which we are told is to exist in these sell-offs . |
| 10 | Another example is the Social Charter , which we are told is a matter for European Community control because of its potential effects on the competitiveness of business . |
| 11 | Yet to impose a purely ‘ universal ’ reading on a novel such as Pedro Páramo is to impoverish it , for it also — and more immediately — conjures up associations with the ancient Mexican myth of Quetzalcoatl 's journey to Mictlan , the kingdom of the dead , and the world into which we are introduced is one where the indigenous cultural tradition constitutes a living presence . |
| 12 | One point on which we are agreed is that instability in the economy is a definite hindrance . |
| 13 | I will not seek to justify this , any more than I would expect the Tories to justify the three day week , the Suez Crisis or any other element of their sordid history , for what we are discussing is a situation facing thousands of people in this district today , and what we are gon na do to ensure that they have a future . |
| 14 | What we are reading is the Book of Patrick Doyle . |
| 15 | The reason we can understand what we are hearing is because our brain can fill in the gaps . |
| 16 | Well okay so so you 're going to you 're going to erm emphasize the er the fact that what we are supplying is a noise tested |
| 17 | What we are seeking is a snapshot of the behaviour not an exhaustive record , although , since the method needs to be replicable some standards for recording must be set . |
| 18 | What we are stressing is that the disciplinary context is important to understanding what kind of contribution is on offer , and this includes understanding the special limited concern a discipline has toward the world , and is an essential consideration in evaluating its research and the data it produces . |
| 19 | We have tried to make it clear in the law that what we are establishing is a parallel procedure and not an exclusive procedure , so that the other law as it existed , whatever it is , still does exist today , but that here is a prescribed procedure which terminally ill patients may choose to use should they wish to do so . |
| 20 | ‘ The freedom and way of life we have been accustomed to enjoy for so long will vanish ’ , Kenneth Oxford , Chief Constable of Merseyside , prophesied in 1977 ; ‘ what we are experiencing is not a passing phenomenon but a continuing process of change in our way of life … our customary ways of behaving and our traditional values are being radically modified . ’ |
| 21 | He has also , inquiries revealed , sold rather more than the 40 or 50 paintings suggested by the Saatchi Collection spokeswoman in mid-week , and the pattern of his sales suggests that what we are seeing is rather more radical than a ‘ refinement ’ of the collection . |
| 22 | The long opening sequence , detailing a mismanaged operation of a baby 's delivery , is an extraordinary feat of simulation , yet it also tends to defeat realism because we know what we are seeing is not really happening . |
| 23 | I will argue , first , that we are inveterate formers of hypotheses about what we are seeing ; second , that computers can only be programmed to see things if they are provided with suitable models ; and third , that our habit of guessing what we are seeing is astonishingly successful . |
| 24 | But we must be sure that what we are seeing is a true feeding roll and not just any surface activity , for bream do frequently appear at the surface when feeding is far from their thoughts . |
| 25 | What we are seeing is not churchmen meddling in politics but following through the logic of their theology which Professor T. F. Torrance has dubbed ‘ a radical disjunction between faith and reason . ’ |
| 26 | What we are seeing is not some kooky ‘ Generation with no name ’ but a crisis , in , well ( sorry to sound so meaningful ) , Western philosophy . |
| 27 | : ’ Speaking in London almost a year after becoming Chairman of British Coal , Mr. Clarke said — What we are seeing is a sort of energy arms race , with attempts to justify it on the grounds of guaranteeing security , diversity and competition — but in reality , guaranteeing nothing but higher electricity prices , a rapid abandonment of other fuel reserves , and reliance on as yet unproven overseas resources . ' |
| 28 | What we are seeing is the emergence of much more diverse and fluid organisations operating on much smaller local units . |
| 29 | Therefore what we are recognizing is that there would be developments on these roads Mr chairman , I would ask in fact in their assessments of their traffic flows and the environmental impact , has any of that element been taken into account ? |
| 30 | It must be accepted that what we are collecting is people 's answers to questions , which is not necessarily a true picture of their activities . |