Example sentences of "we are [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we are called out to a bonfire which potentially could cause damage , it is our responsibility to put it out . |
| 2 | ‘ We are fed up with a distant bureaucracy telling us what to do with our bikes . |
| 3 | Hence we are faced here with an electrostatic problem which may be solved with the aid of Poisson 's equation ( eqn ( 2.12 ) ) . |
| 4 | As a world-wide Church we are sent out into the whole world — we are not just a localised unit of believers . |
| 5 | We are cut right to the bone . ’ |
| 6 | And we are swallowed up from the world , carried in this room to a glade of an enchanted forest , magnificent and unbounded , where stand groves of pine and walnut and chestnut . |
| 7 | We are born again by the spirit of God . |
| 8 | To answer this question we are led back to the idea of big gassy planets like Jupiter spitting out small rocky ones like Venus , which then play a sort of cosmic billiards before settling down . |
| 9 | PLAYER : Well , it 's a device , really — it makes the action that follows more or less comprehensible ; you understand , we are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style . |
| 10 | For we are taught both by the words of worthy men of old and by our experience that this is a most certain sign , and it has been found that even if she be urged and exhorted by solemn conjurations to shed tears , if she be a witch she will not be able to weep : although she will assume a tearful aspect and smear her cheeks and eyes with spittle to make it appear that she is weeping ; wherefore she must be closely watched by the attendants . |
| 11 | So we are referred to the chemistry of the reaction of society ; and here we are involved inescapably in a circularity of reasoning . |
| 12 | Mr Mr I think it 's implicit in our own nature and in our own character and a known fact that we are constituted here as a general assembly and we indeed ascribe to that and I do n't think we need to affirm it on a lower level of what is in fact the very standard of our existence here er in a general assembly . |
| 13 | One can only conclude that we are presented here with a deliberately unpoetical poem , an assault upon the cultivated reader 's exquisite sensibility . |
| 14 | We are presented therefore with a list of all the owners of land in the manor . |
| 15 | That is , when you ask erm er who are we , is any part of what we are made up by the body , the answer 's quite straightforwardly no , we er already identified use the body , this other thing . |
| 16 | Then suddenly , we are drawn along with the poet into a new and wonderful realisation . |
| 17 | We are planted here in a snowfield , |
| 18 | It is almost as if we are confronted here by a replication of the poor Tom described in Ackroyd 's novel by another poor Tom of later times . |
| 19 | Here again , we are taken back to the very beginning of the town , to the years just after the Norman Conquest — for King 's Lynn is not really old by English standards . |
| 20 | A a and certainly the way that we are set up at the moment , there is no need for us to do that . |
| 21 | ‘ We are trapped together for the day . ’ |
| 22 | After each election we are left simply with the power to obey . |
| 23 | Rather than representing , the sign becomes the front behind which the actual disappearance of the signified goes unnoticed , and we are left merely with the medium itself . |
| 24 | We are left only with the memory of fleeting colours , perhaps a small note-group which appears to be half-familiar ( like something we have heard before ) , or some spectacular moment like the boom of a gong . |
| 25 | We are held briefly at the runway apron , and then we are off . |
| 26 | Like Jonah , we are all storm-tossed by the seas of life , undergo apparent death and certain burial , but then attain a blinding resurrection as the car-ferry doors swing open and we are delivered back into the light and into a recognition of God 's love . |
| 27 | Thus we are told right at the start of Isaac 's frailty and vulnerability . |
| 28 | And with that slice of humour , we are brought back to the present . |
| 29 | But if that is put on one side we are brought back to the question of what kinds of determining factors Poulantzas invokes in order to explain what actually happens . |
| 30 | Many of us are cut off from the natural Earth currents , especially when we live in cities . |