Example sentences of "we [am/are] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crucially , however , the point is this : I can not pretend that the philosophical Enlightenment has never happened , and that we are not living on the ‘ post ’ side of a scientific revolution . |
| 2 | Does n't the good minister understand that we are not living in an idealised middle-class world of Just William where chaps get caned and girls behave like Violet Elizabeth Bott ? |
| 3 | In this context we may well ask whether we are not living in an age when God is judging our Western civilisation — whether the inflation of the Western world is a judgment on materialism , or the rising unemployment a judgment on militant trade unionism or the crisis of capitalism a judgment on the secular humanism of our age . |
| 4 | ‘ We are not aiming at a local audience , but are bearing the EEC in mind , and of course all those who come to the Frankfurt Book Fair at the same time . ’ |
| 5 | ( Many different early blueprints may play into this and compound the fear of the opposite sex , but we are not elaborating on this , as homosexuality is not the subject of this book . ) |
| 6 | ‘ But we are not getting into this game . |
| 7 | It is important to realise that we are not taking into account all the competing paths produced by poor acoustic-phonetic labelling . |
| 8 | In this , the statement by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission ( ARCIC ) II , ‘ Salvation and the Church ’ , is a major breakthrough because theologians from the Roman Catholic and Anglican Communions were able to state together the ‘ once-for-all ’ offering of Christ on the cross , and that we are not saved by good works but for good works . |
| 9 | When she still laments her fate he can only add ‘ We are not bound for ever to the circles of the world , and beyond them is more than memory . |
| 10 | ‘ We are not leaving at six . ’ |
| 11 | This is vital if we are to continue to lose weight and inches at a satisfactory rate , and essential if we are not to return to our previous shape . |
| 12 | We are not to suppose of this machine that when a chocolate bar does not come out there exists a causal circumstance which necessitates the failure . |
| 13 | Still , we are not debarred from attempting to conceive of an indeterminate object or content . |
| 14 | We are not disturbed by slowness , for what goes slow can run deep . |
| 15 | We are not engaged in any sort of crusade . |
| 16 | We are not engaged in proving the universe to be nomic , or defying it to step out of line . |
| 17 | Well in the first place , I have made clear throughout , and I have a record their of over twenty years that people can have a look at , but I made clear throughout , as has Mr Adams , that we are not engaged in secret deals , secret deals do n't solve problems . |
| 18 | In the case of a Japanese company wishing to invest in this country , whereas hitherto the attractions of the United Kingdom economy , along with the English language , which is important in Japanese investment , have been significant , for the future we are issuing a warning to the Japanese investor to be careful ; he may not be able to price across Europe in the future , he may experience high interest rates in this country and he may find it much harder to trade into the Community , because if we are not participating in the single currency we may not get all the benefits of the single market either . |
| 19 | When we speak of budgeting in the public sector we are not referring to the Chancellor of the Exchequer 's spring Budget statement . |
| 20 | Some hon. Members believe that the Tories have got themselves into a spot of bother in Scotland , and we are not referring to the occasional by-election disaster such as occurred in Kincardine and Deeside recently , or even to the reduction of Scottish Tory representation in the House to the completely inadequate level of nine . |
| 21 | When we talk about part-time holdings in any context — certainly in an island context — we are not speaking about small static parcels of land with which we can play about like pieces in a jig-saw puzzle . |
| 22 | We are not speaking of children or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood . |
| 23 | There is still a sense in which the relation between words and object can be called ‘ arbitrary ’ , since we are not dealing with onomatopeia , but it is quite unproblematical . |
| 24 | We are not dealing with political issues , civil rights is not a political issue but a moral issue . ’ |
| 25 | And horrified Superintendent Peter Edwards of British Transport Police , said : ‘ We are very fortunate we are not dealing with a major disaster . |
| 26 | ‘ We are not dealing with an orthodox war , a single enemy , a front line or clearly identifiable targets , ’ he said in a letter to former Foreign Secretary Lord Owen . |
| 27 | We are not dealing with the Christ or Christos of theology , the figure who enjoys a very real and very puissant existence in the psyches and consciences of the faithful . |
| 28 | It should be noted that in this offence we are not dealing with the hypothetical by-stander . |
| 29 | What is clear , however , is that we are not dealing with lexical ambiguity . |
| 30 | What we are not dealing with is a fully-fledged ‘ standard ’ pronunciation that can then be most usefully described in terms of a unilinear history since that time . |