Example sentences of "we [be] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we did n't buy very , little utility furniture , the only utility furniture we 've got is , it used to be a bedroom suite up in that second bedroom , we 've still got the bed of that , that was utility , but had we been in the market we would of bought utility because it was very good , some of it was really good if you looked around and erm , you know , choose your furniture , it was very good |
| 2 | He 's a bill sales , how long have we been in the indoor sales , or territory four , nine , one , in Manchester depot , which covers the Greater Stockport area . |
| 3 | He is not at all well , very breathless , and by the time we are in the care he is gasping for air . |
| 4 | We are in the Scotland of TB , pneumonia and drink , in which sex is spoken of as a matter of men attacking women . |
| 5 | Our theory — if we are in the business of expounding a theory on the subject of pub design — is that each pub must be treated individually and on its own merits . |
| 6 | We are in the presence of very great evil , my friends , and the little grey cells must not be denied . ’ |
| 7 | In any case , enveloped though it is in ingratiating compliments to us on how charming we are in the bosoms of our families , the indictment is quite firm and it is unsparing : ‘ Suffocating insular coziness ’ . |
| 8 | SINCE we are in the middle of the International Coffee Organisation meeting -how do they pass a week without a visible result ? — I thought it appropriate to think about tea . |
| 9 | We are in the wrong position to see the flash of light as the sun erupts again , settling instead for seeing it emerge from behind the northward island as we paddle slowly in . |
| 10 | It 's hard not to when you see how happy we are in the picture — we 're laughing our heads off . |
| 11 | We are in the season of Advent which , as we know , means the Coming — — the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ — and He , as we know also , was crucified by rulers who set the claims of the State above Him . |
| 12 | We are in the unique position of having privileged access to information from their workers in almost every region where refugees are concerned . |
| 13 | ‘ We are in the hi-tech corridor between the M3 and M4 , ’ said the lady , dishing out brochures proclaiming as advantages the town 's high-speed escapes to Birmingham , Liverpool , anywhere . |
| 14 | ‘ We are in the hi-tech corridor between the M3 and M4 , ’ said the lady , dishing out brochures proclaiming as advantages the town 's high-speed escapes to Birmingham , Liverpool , anywhere . |
| 15 | ‘ We are in the early stage of what will be a long debate in Europe , ’ she said . |
| 16 | ‘ We are in the eye of the storm , ’ he said . |
| 17 | We are in the Old Vicarage Farm now , which Johnson describes as a pretentious heap of shit built to impress the local peasants . |
| 18 | ‘ We are in the midst of a period of considerable change , ’ said breed society president Wilson McCracken , Co Antrim . |
| 19 | His response is to try to see clearly what we are in the scale of things : |
| 20 | ‘ What you observe there is that in the battleground seats , the seats where this election will be determined , Labour is doing even better than we are in the national , overall polls , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Now we are in the years 1911 — 1920 , and Stravinsky , who was then in the throes of The Rite of Spring , found time , too , for his Two Poems of Balmont and the Three Japanese Lyrics . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , unfilled vacancies were the highest for a year , a further indication that ‘ we are in the right kind of atmosphere to benefit from the recovery ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ We are in the agonies of househunting ’ , Bernard Shaw wrote to his friend H. G Wells in the spring of 1904 . |
| 24 | ‘ If we are in the middle of a broad , flat valley , our mathematical models work well , ’ says Whitman . |
| 25 | You only have to drive through the West Midlands to see that if we are in the Super-League of top industrial nations , somebody must be moving the goalposts . |
| 26 | This is obviously not always an easy thing to do , especially if we are in the darkness of suffering . |
| 27 | We are in the salon of Dame Edna 's Mayfair penthouse , slightly smaller than Versailles and banked by more floral tributes than a Mafia funeral . |
| 28 | Today we are in the vulnerable position of producing barely half our own food , with only 2½ per cent of our people directly concerned with working the land , and that percentage is still falling . |
| 29 | When we are in the material world doing work or playing , we should do them with enthusiasm and be wholly committed to them . |
| 30 | When we have allowed this state to dominate us we are in the state of apathy . |