Example sentences of "[that] we are [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hereabouts , there are more signs of human occupation , albeit still on a small scale : small townships , scattered crofts , and a few large hotels to suggest that we are entering an area frequented by tourists . |
| 2 | Society itself is , notoriously , changing very rapidly , and the possibility has to be considered that we are entering a period where the notions and the realities of political coercion , of production of wealth , and of cognition and legitimation , may need to be modified if they are to be useable in our actual social environment . |
| 3 | However , she warned , " the fact that we are entering the path of economic development does not mean that we can expect a quick jump in living standards " . |
| 4 | Jones predicts that we are entering a period of enhanced genetic wellbeing , as international travel and migration bring new opportunities for outbreeding . |
| 5 | On the subject of telephone links as the supporting network for the dissemination of these messages , records managers must also be aware that we are entering ( some are already in ) an even more demanding environment where the raw data of a communication , without the man-readable ‘ envelope ’ will be routinely sent down telephone lines to form the record of an activity . |
| 6 | First , we can make a list of the things that we are holding against others , things that are bothering us , causing pain , things that make life miserable . |
| 7 | Perfect or absolute Truth , which is known by faith , is beyond our empirical grasp which means that we must act in the knowledge that we are holding on to such truth as we are able to apprehend in this world . |
| 8 | Erm , the position then on carry forwards , Chairman , is that you have a number of specific contingency provisions that we are holding , funded from these previous savings . |
| 9 | Ralph Ellis , group managing director of the carpets firm , Stoddard Sekers International , said : ‘ We are confident that we are holding our share , but it is of a smaller cake . ’ |
| 10 | That is why we have ensured , through our know-how funds and all the other means at our disposal , that we are providing economic advice and sound advice for training members of the former republics to get on with the job of economic reform . |
| 11 | The third is the one that we are providing — giving the governors of schools the choice of teams of inspectors , who will be up to the standards required by HMI at the centre . |
| 12 | It should be emphasised that we are providing a service complementary to that of merchant banks ; they do not normally have the resources to do it themselves . |
| 13 | What we 're concerned with is the amount of land that or the amo number of dwellings that we are providing , through the structure plan , through local plans for the future . |
| 14 | The fact that we are providing the services for Wiltshire , that they were providing , and we 're providing them for less money , is surely something to be applauded . |
| 15 | Hopefully , I know we 've got problems with those er colleagues who lost their jobs since that time , but we now feel that we are providing the best advice , the best service in respect of advising members on and the acquired rights directive . |
| 16 | But we hope so , but I do n't I 'm not facetious enough to think that I can change a personality in a person , but what we 're trying to do is make him feel a loving and a commitment , that we are providing him with the best we can . |
| 17 | One of the great problems is that we are trained to think in lists — packing lists , shopping lists , lists of tasks to complete today … |
| 18 | ‘ We must run it safely in the short term and long term , ’ he said , ‘ because if people are able to demonstrate that we are causing an environment problem we will be shut down . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I have no wish to take the adventure out of climbing — that is not in my professional interests , after all — but I would be a hypocrite if I did not accept that we are causing environmental damage , ’ Rowland confesses . |
| 20 | ‘ I have no wish to take the adventure out of climbing — that is not in my professional interests , after all — but I would be a hypocrite if I did not accept that we are causing environmental damage . |
| 21 | ‘ We have told them that we are issuing a document and if they make allegations of corruption , we will sue . |
| 22 | I suppose that means that we are learning . ) |
| 23 | ‘ The important thing is that we are learning a new language . |
| 24 | In taking up on green and environmental issues , it will give the G M B a much higher profile , and make non-members and the general public alike more aware of the good things that we are striving for on their behalf . |
| 25 | If we daydream while going through the motions of reading we can still recognise words , and perhaps even convince ourselves that we are reading . |
| 26 | There is a little direct speech ( " And all overclouded by this , you know … " ) and indirect speech ( " the casual observation that he could n't find it " ) , but otherwise there are no clear signals to countermand the assumption that we are reading an impersonal narrator 's version of events . |
| 27 | In La Male Honte , " Foul shame " ( although the title itself is ambiguous , representing Anglo-French " The purse of Honte " , and the fabliau itself revolves around this ambiguity ) , the deceased Honte 's friend carries the legacy due to the crown to the king " " a son col " " : simply , " on his back " , although since we know that we are reading a " " fablel " " we are especially prepared for a word such as col = " arse " , and have to carry forward in our minds to the rest of the fabliau the notion that it might be significant that the friend carries what is due to the king on his backside . |
| 28 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support for the document that we are publishing today on hospital hostels . |
| 29 | For some Christians the fact that we are made in God 's image means that we are in some respects killing God if we attempt suicide , and so there can be no more serious sin . |
| 30 | It is only by looking outside legal doctrine itself that we are made aware that neither the small closely held company ( where there is no separation of ownership and management ) nor the large public company ( where there is a separation of ownership and control ) conform to the legal model . |