Example sentences of "we [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
| 2 | As a world-wide Church we are sent out into the whole world — we are not just a localised unit of believers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ If we are to go out of the Cup then let it be to a side packed with international stars . |
| 5 | But we accept that there is not a customer for this work and we are getting on with the job of ensuring that the business as a whole continues to develop positively . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 8 | We are moving on with the medical services . |
| 9 | We 're moving to Shanghai with mixed feelings , as we 've heard we 'll be staying in the Peace Hotel , in the noisy centre of the city , but it 's nice to feel now that we are moving on to the home stretch . |
| 10 | De Klerk said his visit showed South Africa and the world that " we are moving back to the fold " . |
| 11 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 12 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 13 | I believe I told you that we are to move on to the Astors ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Then suddenly , we are drawn along with the poet into a new and wonderful realisation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They say it is too soon to say if either will produce any results , but Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad confirmed : ‘ We have been given some new names which we are following up at the moment . |
| 18 | All that memory can provide contributes already to our feeling that in calling this sensation ‘ pain ’ we are going on in the same way , following the rule . |
| 19 | ‘ We are going round to the stage door now , ’ she announced firmly . |
| 20 | We are going down towards the forest and the Arctic night is awesome . |
| 21 | We need to sort out the EC 's finances if we are to get on with the community 's enlargement . |
| 22 | A a and certainly the way that we are set up at the moment , there is no need for us to do that . |
| 23 | ‘ We are carrying on with the wedding as planned . ’ |
| 24 | I think we are coming up to the peaks now . ’ |
| 25 | That in itself is a sign that we are coming out of the recession . |
| 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 | And with that slice of humour , we are brought back to the present . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If we are to come out of the recession without increasing inflation , we need to sell more goods abroad and at home in competition with imports , but we will not be able to do that . |
| 30 | No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all . |