Example sentences of "what we [am/are] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What we are reading is the Book of Patrick Doyle . |
| 3 | The reason we can understand what we are hearing is because our brain can fill in the gaps . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | What we are seeing is not some kooky ‘ Generation with no name ’ but a crisis , in , well ( sorry to sound so meaningful ) , Western philosophy . |
| 15 | : ’ 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 . ' |
| 16 | What we are seeing is the emergence of much more diverse and fluid organisations operating on much smaller local units . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | What we are suggesting is that such an education does not add up to learning to be independent , to participating in and contributing to one 's own community , either as a child or later as an adult , as the aims of education purport . |
| 20 | Therefore , what we are suggesting is not to be considered as the only way of " doing it right " . |
| 21 | What we are presenting is not a distorted view of ‘ reality ’ , but the reality which engages the people we have studied , the reality they create by their interpretation of their experience and in terms of which they act . |
| 22 | Just because non-human animal memories can be expressed only in behavioural terms , the possibility always arises that what we are measuring is an aspect of the behaviour rather than the memory . |
| 23 | I gave the impression that what we are measuring is copying errors . |
| 24 | What we are finding is a range of costs . |
| 25 | What we are supposing is that everything could have been exactly as it was except for the non-occurrence of the smell of the candles . |
| 26 | What we are observing is a late stage in the recession of formerly well-established rules . |
| 27 | What we are asking is what determines the amount of money people want to hold , whether in cash or in some form of account . |
| 28 | He then explained that ‘ … what we are pronouncing are not the three names of God ( or worse still the names of three gods , as some would suggest ) but we are pronouncing three aspects or qualities of the Deity which are well-known and used , in Christianity and other religions , namely His Eternal Existence , His Transcendence and His Omnipotence . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The business case for what we are doing is obvious , ’ says Hume , calculating that it costs an average of between £10,000 and £15,000 to recruit and train a replacement for every female member of staff who leaves . |
| 30 | ‘ But , in reality … what we are doing is serving our own best interests … . |