Example sentences of "we [am/are] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believes we are at a deeply significant turning point in human history and if we are to come through it we have to change not just the way people behave , but also the way in which they think . |
| 2 | We are at a disadvantage in Britain in that we do not have a revolutionary doctrine to preach : a vivid message that promises an unattainable millennium . |
| 3 | We are at a loss to know the cause of Dr Dyer 's ‘ twinge of alarm ’ . |
| 4 | That concentrated evil , that supreme almost supernatural cruelty , teaches us that we are at a parting of the ways , man 's salvation or man 's destruction . |
| 5 | As I see it , we are at a crossroad where far-reaching decisions must soon be made by women , by local authorities and central government . |
| 6 | We have to confess that we are at a stage of understanding where any answer must be to some extent tentative . |
| 7 | However , a number of theories argue that the changes are even bigger than this : that we are at a major historical turning-point in the nature of the UK economy and in its urban and regional geography . |
| 8 | Secondly , we are at a critical juncture , much as a seriously ill person may reach a ‘ turning point at which the patient either begins to improve or sinks into a fatal decline ’ . |
| 9 | Assume we are at a board position called MyPos , and it is the program 's turn to play . |
| 10 | In a sense , we all understand perfectly well what experiences are ; it is when we are challenged to explain this understanding that we are at a loss how to put it into words . |
| 11 | Suchocka declared : " After three years of reforms , we are at a turning point . |
| 12 | I fear we are at a parting of the ways . |
| 13 | Er , if the person er is sitting watching the television and er has been awake for several hours then we are at a disadvantage . |
| 14 | I think we are at a turning point for this company and the industry . ’ |
| 15 | If we are at an early stage of the work , still looking around for ideas and still perhaps ‘ hypothesis-seeking ’ , it is likely that we shall want to talk to people to try to get help , stimulation , new viewpoints , and so on . |
| 16 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 17 | Again we are at the tip of his pen as he draws a box to put himself inside , and as the most private and informative area of the Possessed notebooks begins to open up . |
| 18 | ‘ I wish it were true that the fund will continue to grow , but we are at the mercy of the markets , and we must keep a healthy capital amount for all needy old soldiers down on their luck . |
| 19 | Here we are at the heart of the problem : holy love . |
| 20 | We are at the stage of trying to work with a broad brush without much understanding of the problems of detail . |
| 21 | By allowing ourselves to be forced to carry these cards for the convenience of the state , we will be acknowledging that we are at the disposition of the state and its computers . |
| 22 | No one , of course , would want to compare the first week of school term with the outbreak of a world war , but we are at the beginning of a New Year and a gateway to the future . |
| 23 | We are at the very early stages of this project at the moment . |
| 24 | Yet we are at the same time perturbed by more recent and present-day developments . |
| 25 | As often we are at the mercy of his laconic whim : why is it that no trust is involved ? |
| 26 | Canada 's minister for the environment , John Roberts , said ‘ We are at the end of an exhaust pipe … which starts in the US . ’ |
| 27 | We are at the Red Flag stage with IT , and it is hardly possible to anticipate how the future will work out . |
| 28 | We are at the stage where we need to know exactly where the remaining rabbits are , so that we can dig down to secure them . |
| 29 | He does n't know where we are at the moment and if the authorities catch up with him and give him my address it will be more trouble than it 's worth . ’ |
| 30 | This larger area is a circle and we are at the centre of it . |