Example sentences of "we are [adj] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are intent on making sure that British women , even if no longer with the protection of the directive , have adequate protection during pregnancy . |
| 2 | We are intent on ensuring that the customer is the focus of everything that we do . ’ |
| 3 | We are involved in supporting the funding of people who move into nursing homes . |
| 4 | ‘ Presently we are involved in promoting a modern diesel depot and have started a ‘ Modern Traction Museum ’ fund which has already raised £10,000 . |
| 5 | If someone speaks to us , another ability is revealed for we are better at discriminating subtle changes in frequency and loudness than many other species , allowing us to use sound for complex communications . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ We are guilty of failing to provide for what is clearly a statutory service and I am truly appalled that we slipped up so badly and made such a serious mistake . |
| 7 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
| 8 | Sometimes , as Christians , we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians . |
| 9 | Is it any wonder that we are nervous about having a campsite , to which anyone can come , located so close to members of this community . |
| 10 | Certainly , it is interesting that trees in general , and , more especially , the more phallic-shaped cypresses and other evergreens , play a significant role in the myths associated with the Attis cult ( not to mention the cases of Adonis , Tammuz , Osiris — and , if we are correct in seeing the Cross as a tree — Christ ) . |
| 11 | ‘ What comes through strongly is that we are good at communicating in one direction — the Courtaulds message is getting across , ’ said , deputy director of Human Resources . |
| 12 | Anthropological knowledge can seem , and often is , dangerous and subversive — not because we are good at digging up dirt ( we are ) , nor simply because we document what ‘ actually happens ’ rather than what is supposed to happen , but because our ways of defining situations and problems often raise questions in our minds about the fundamental assumptions on which any institution bases its own definitions , and indeed the assumptions on which it rests as an institution . |
| 13 | We are good at organizing and organizing we 'll do . |
| 14 | The project director , Marilyn Standley , commented : ‘ The building is being designed to reflect the personality and concerns of the company and its staff , and we are delighted at having been awarded such a high environmental score . ’ |
| 15 | We are right in distinguishing between a sentence and its sense . |
| 16 | If we are right in regarding it as the single most important area in which independence is prized and which also causes major distress for carers , it seems clear that it should be a priority in health and social services provision . |
| 17 | ‘ Since the Chancellor 's announcement we have had a lot of inquiries which we are confident of turning into sales , ’ says Rover dealer Ashmall Parkinson salesman David Bailey . |
| 18 | We are confident in recommending her strongly to you . |
| 19 | If we are successful in identifying these the opportunities may exist to prevent a situation that is desperately difficult to cure . |
| 20 | If we are successful in obtaining major reviews , this could require assembling multi-disciplinary teams at short notice to work intensively against tight deadlines . |
| 21 | I am puzzled by the hon. Gentleman 's comment that we are unsuccessful in getting inflation down . |
| 22 | This is especially true in applied areas , such as the study of psychopathology , where we are uncertain whether animals experience the same problems as humans and , if they do , we are uncertain about identifying which disturbances in animals correspond to particular disturbances in humans . |
| 23 | We are fortunate in producing directly or supplying ingredients for products which provide good value for the consumer . |
| 24 | In the case of William Wordsworth we are fortunate in possessing his own very full account of the first part of his life , roughly down to the mid-1790s , in the ‘ Poem ’ addressed to Coleridge which we now know as The Prelude . |
| 25 | It was n't weather for sitting in the garden , but we are fortunate in having windows which look over our own small front garden , and because there is no hedge , beyond to the road . |
| 26 | We are fortunate in having HRH Princess Margareta of the Luxembourg family to be our speaker . |
| 27 | ‘ In North Yorkshire we are fortunate in having relatively few problems over school vandalism , although most schools encounter the occasional difficulty , ’ he said . |
| 28 | It is because trust has been eroded by the long running conflict between central Government and the teaching unions that as a nation we are far from realising the ideal of having our schools staffed by the true professionals that children deserve . |
| 29 | And , since there is no limit to the number of hypotheses that can fit a given body of data , what reason have we to suppose that we are capable of producing , and finding plausible , an hypothesis that is on the right lines ? |
| 30 | I know we are capable of bouncing back . ‘ |