Example sentences of "we are [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virtually every week we are warned in the media of further devastating environmental effects of our own past excesses ; effects that threaten human as much as non-human life and livelihood . |
| 2 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |
| 3 | But perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction . |
| 4 | The long history of marriage and the family we are given in The Origin if first and foremost to show that the family and marriage do have a history . |
| 5 | Inevitably we are moved in the direction of using proxies which can not properly be validated . |
| 6 | There 's some valuable work gone on there , and you can , and if and if we 're going to deny these people , the opportunity of of achieving anything like their potential , I mean , it seems such a shame , when we , you know , when we are succeeding in the rest of the programme . |
| 7 | Chairman Trevor Wheatley said yesterday : ‘ The recovery we are seeing in the UK and US is fragile , though our order books are 20pc up on this time last year . |
| 8 | Moreover , we recognise the seminal changes we are seeking in the approach to development and ‘ progress ’ may well require fundamental institutional changes beyond that envisaged in Threshold 21 . |
| 9 | They declared : " We are united in the belief that Iraq 's aggression must not be tolerated . |
| 10 | So all in all , since most of the passage is told from Pemberton 's point of view , we are led in the absence of contrary evidence into taking the whole passage in that light . |
| 11 | If we are above government guidelines it is the labour party 's fault and if indeed we are penalised in the future it is the labour party 's fault , none other and to the extent that you run the risk now by having this excess eleven percent budget over the er standing expenditure assessment er will once again unfortunately find you guilty in that regard . |
| 12 | The consensus , however , is that we are moving in the right direction and the further 1% cut in base rates and its knock-on effect on mortgages is the best tonic the country could get . |
| 13 | The issues we are facing in the present crisis of faith touch on what I call the Square One Principle . |
| 14 | Firstly , I am reporting to you that there has been in the current year additional efficiency savings over and above those that previously anticipated er at the level of two hundred thousand pounds and so we are assuming in the budget erm that those can continue into ninety four , five and thereafter , and then we 'll see the resolutions have been amended to take that into account and the text of the erratum sheet explains how that 's been done . |
| 15 | Richard is often afraid we are staying in the wrong place , have chosen the wrong country for a holiday , are , in some way , missing something . |
| 16 | Review your situation in the light of the preceding pages asking yourself , ‘ Are there areas of church life where we are operating in the dark , and where hard evidence would help us do things better ? ’ |
| 17 | Erm as I say we are known in the village and this is , er this is what it 's all about . |
| 18 | We are leading in the European Community , rather than allowing others to lead us . |
| 19 | We are in close contact and , as is known , we are examining in the sub-strategic nuclear field how we could work more closely with the French Government on a wide range of defence matters . |
| 20 | As to ‘ its effect upon national character ’ , Pearson thought that ‘ whether we are changing in the direction of a higher or lower morality is … the point that is most really at issue ’ . |
| 21 | We are groping in the darkness of the post-bi-polar world , looking for a light to cast . |
| 22 | When we have a " blind spot " in any part of the swing we are groping in the dark or seeking a way through fog . |
| 23 | Because we are immersed in the culture of the modern world as actor-participants , it takes an effort of will to stand back and look clearly with Christian discernment . |
| 24 | Yet , ironically , ‘ waiting for rain , , we are rooted in the most primitive situation . |
| 25 | At this point we can usefully remind ourselves of the central problem with which urban sociology is engaged and the reasons why we are engaging in the problematic areas of theory discussed in this chapter and in Chapter 1 . |
| 26 | From the moment we enter the organization , we are submerged in the multitude of verbal and non-verbal signals . |
| 27 | ‘ We are winning in the sense we are finding it easier for women to make progress in the organisation and they are not the exception any more . |
| 28 | If we are to persist in the assertion of absolute sovereignty for whatever body happens to sit from time to time at Westminster , the answer must be affirmative . |
| 29 | If we are to survive in the West End , we have to guarantee that every performance is up to scratch . |
| 30 | Thus if we are walking in the pastoral , remote country on the borders of Leicestershire and Rutland , following the Eye brook as it makes its way south through undulating fields to the Welland , we pass in a walk of nine or ten miles through a landscape modelled in five different centuries , and this in a part of England that is generally accounted somewhat dull , the monotonous product of parliamentary enclosure . |