Example sentences of "we [am/are] [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we are looking to more powerful sound systems . |
| 2 | Detective Chief Superintendent Alan Shannon , who is heading the investigation , said : ‘ We are looking for either a youth or a young man . |
| 3 | Our requirements are fairly modest ; we are looking for about £700 per annum . |
| 4 | Our requirements are fairly modest ; we are looking for about £700 per annum . |
| 5 | Our requirements are fairly modest ; we are looking for about £700 per annum . |
| 6 | ‘ Last year we were looking at levels of Government borrowing far lower than those we are looking at today . |
| 7 | Er I mean the er it 's er , course there are three orders that we are looking at tonight , it includes the er the third order er in relation not to boundaries but to the registration of overseas er voters to enable them to vote er in this , in this er election within U K constituencies and therefore that 's why the position that Mr David Robeddow as the chairman of Conservatives abroad er in Monte Carlo is relevant , er but also bec because of course the purpose of the European parliament for the first time as it will go through under these new boundaries , now is that they will be able to remedy some of that democratic deficit . |
| 8 | ‘ We have a standard spending assessment of £6.155m. which is in no way related to our spending needs , ’ he said , ‘ We are looking at about a £1.4m. reduction in spending . |
| 9 | The complexity we are faced with here is one of everyday messiness . |
| 10 | Basically , what we are faced with here is the standard Tory lies , the standard Tory attempt to dig themselves out of their hole . |
| 11 | We are faced with almost a month of lies , halftruths , gossip , innuendo and invective from the two main parties . |
| 12 | This could be explained away by the inadequacy of the diagnosis but that would not restore belief in a fixed relation between pain and damage since we are faced with very large numbers of patients with overt chronic damage and little or no pain . |
| 13 | ‘ I tell you , boy , we are engaged with more even than I knew . |
| 14 | A final qualification is that the issues we are pointing to here are thoroughly debatable . |
| 15 | On the Eurojet contract we are seeking to actually convert that to a fixed price at this stage because the programme is more advanced it is reasonable to do that er on the air frame contract probably the uncertainty and the degree of risk at this stage is too high to move to a fixed price at this point . |
| 16 | ‘ We are hoping at least 20 grounds will be involved in a sit-down/stand-up protest on Saturday , ’ said Lee . |
| 17 | Conference , in speaking to this document we should all realize the importance of the subject that we are referring to today . |
| 18 | For the sort of interaction that we are referring to here is not the planned smashing of things . |
| 19 | Likewise structure , which is what we are aiming at here , does not spring up ready-made , but is developed from interior and exterior motifs into its parts and thence into a whole … |
| 20 | Today we are moving towards more equal and mutual ways of arranging our lives , but it is still too soon to be able to see clearly how this may change our ideas of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ . |
| 21 | We are moving to more comprehensive coverage . |
| 22 | Opposing the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill on 20 May 1992 , Bill Cash said , ‘ My opposition to the Bill and to the Treaty is based on the fact that , under the proposals , we are moving into wholly different territory . |
| 23 | Colleagues , what we are speaking about here is death . |
| 24 | All the levels involved are still g ( symmetric with respect to the inversion center , since we are dealing with strictly octahedral complexes ) , so all transitions are formally orbitally forbidden ( ΔL = 0 ) . |
| 25 | However , what we are dealing with here is a magic formula of a type which has characterised legislation from Brussels before . |
| 26 | What we are dealing with here is sociolinguistic : the development of supra-local regional and social attitudes to language . |
| 27 | It is possible that what we are dealing with here is the experience of sections of the professional gentry , though it was not confined to that group alone . |
| 28 | There are many differences of opinion amongst economists about the relative power of fiscal policy and monetary policy to influence the position of the aggregate demand curve , but these debates are of no great concern to the question we are dealing with here . |
| 29 | We should not be misled by any temptation to assume that what we are dealing with here is the familiar disposition of many words , mentioned above , to vary in their referential effect according to the standard considered relevant for the type of the noun ; as if , to take the last sentence in ( 34 ) it was simply a matter of adjusting our standard of what counts as old from the range suitable for schools to the smaller one which is appropriate to individual human beings . |
| 30 | It may be more helpful to admit that what we are dealing with here are very complex pragmatic ways in which a sentence and a context of utterance interact to pick out a proposition , by reference to the audio-visual monitoring of the speech event as it unfolds . |