Example sentences of "we are [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Towards the end of his reign , in the ordinance of the forest of 1306 , the king speaks of being confronted ‘ with the inspection of human weakness ’ and the wide burdens that fell upon him , he being ‘ inwardly tormented with divers compunctions , tossed about by the waves of divers thoughts ’ , and being ‘ frequently troubled , passing sleepless nights , … hesitating in our inmost soul upon what ought to be done , what to be held , or what to be presented ’ ; ‘ about this chiefly is our mind busied without intermission , that we may prepare the pleasantness of ease and quiet for our subjects dwelling in our realm , in whose quiet we have some rest , and in their tranquillity we are inwardly cherished with odours of satisfaction and the flowers of hoped-for peace . ’ |
| 2 | All of this means that we are inwardly nourished by the awe of God , and enriched by his closeness to us . |
| 3 | We are steadily working towards the plans that we set out , which we believe are right . |
| 4 | That such insights are available to gay people ( whether we are writers or not ) should come as no surprise — from birth we are relentlessly socialized into a heterosexual identity that we may later choose to reject but which remains an always familiar landscape — those on the margins of a culture know more about its centre than the centre can ever know about the margins . |
| 5 | Travel is easier and we are continuously bombarded with information about distant places . |
| 6 | We are continuously bombarded by cosmic rays , atomic particles ejected by distant stellar catastrophes . |
| 7 | We are instinctively drawn to the essential oil which may be right for our physical and emotional needs at the time . |
| 8 | Perhaps only because we are both bound by her spells . |
| 9 | We are both heated by the same fire . |
| 10 | In both Britain and the US we have the ability to produce all we need , but if our leaders do not have the political balls to plan Japan by their rules we are both destined for economic annihilation . |
| 11 | ‘ We are both fighting in September and I do n't know what he 's got planned after that , but hopefully we 'll be meeting early next year . |
| 12 | First , you will want to define the problem for yourself , but later it is equally essential to define the problem at the actual negotiation — we might as well check that we are both talking about the same problem ! |
| 13 | So we are both known as ‘ kiwis ’ . |
| 14 | You can imagine what we are both feeling like … |
| 15 | Cats and humans both evolved as meat-eaters — as predators — and until our biochemists have been able to produce synthetic meats , with the magic mixture of essential amino-acids , we are both trapped by our evolutionary past . |
| 16 | A cloud passes over the sun , darkens the sky , and we are both reflected in the green . |
| 17 | We are thus faced with the following problem : what organization in the early sea-urchin embryo ensures that the proportions of cells that form the skeleton , the gut , and the surface layers , will be the same in embryos whose cells can be quite extensively rearranged and whose size varies over a factor of eightfold ? |
| 18 | We are thus faced in his later years by the paradox of a ruler who had spent his life in efforts to make his subjects prosperous and happy compelled to create a system of secret police and to hold down considerable parts of his territories by armed force . |
| 19 | We are particularly struck by the concern that doctors are now expected to work in multidisciplinary teams , not automatically as their leaders . |
| 20 | We are particularly looking for entrepreneurs who can set up and develop businesses , thus creating employment in the area . |
| 21 | However , there seems to be more to the formation of a child 's personality at birth than these two viewpoints — that we are either born as a blank sheet or that the formation we have is via our mother , and begins prior to our birth . |
| 22 | Most of the time we 're either sitting outside the head 's office or we are either fighting or we are either arguing with them . |
| 23 | This may seem an unimportant omission : we are rarely called upon to deal with spoken or written non-words in the course of day-to-day linguistic activities . |
| 24 | Of these environments , however , only the voiceless fricative and /r/ environments coincide with the backing environments of RP , so we are clearly dealing with a different /a/-backing rule . |
| 25 | What we are clearly seeing in some areas is roughly the same group of people exploiting the same local landscape for their subsistence requirements over a long period , but with successive generations living on different sites at different times . |
| 26 | It is not just that we clearly do understand something ; rather we know in advance that it is only by understanding the sceptic 's argument as we are clearly expected to , that we could be led to believe that we understand nothing . |
| 27 | ‘ How are you ? ’ — ‘ I 'm fine ’ , and talk about the weather are designed to make another individual feel comfortable , to let them know that we are positively disposed towards them when we can not think of anything more significant to say . |
| 28 | It is surprising , therefore , that we are exceptionally limited in our use of smell . |
| 29 | Even more strikingly , the ERP will vary according to whether or not we are selectively attending to it . |
| 30 | We are similarly committed in connection with nomic correlates . |