Example sentences of "we are [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 " Ladies and gentlemen , I need not tell you how we are ravaged by this disease in Krishnapur !
2 That is why we are persisting with policies that will create long-term , permanent jobs for the future .
3 A peculiarity of human beings is the very weak degree to which we are endowed with " natural " discriminating powers of this sort .
4 IN OUR arrogance , we parents tend to assume that our children love us , respect us and think we are endowed with the wisdom of Solomon .
5 ‘ We could run into problems with the draw and the going in Paris and we are leaning towards the Cheveley Park at Newmarket , ’ said owner Lord Carnarvon .
6 If we are smoothing with repeated medians , the appropriate transformation can simply be applied to the smoothed values and new residuals calculated .
7 Despite the tougher trading conditions I am pleased to report that Healthcare has yet again had a profitable year , and we are poised for further expansion of our business in the coming year .
8 We are poised on the edge .
9 Now , we are providing above average level of services year on year on , at below average , er er average expenditure .
10 Nevertheless , the director of quality for the new Anglian Water plc , Peter Matthews , told the press , ‘ I can assure all our consumers that the water we are providing from the reservoir is absolutely safe to drink . ’
11 So in turning to social processes outside employment , we are shifting to a sphere of study which has been well trodden by urban sociology .
12 Then if we are taxed with what we said about someone , we shall be calm for we shall know that everything we said was benevolent .
13 We are cleared by Air Traffic Control to taxi and take off .
14 We are warned by Rose and Barker : ‘ Biased error strikes at the roots of comparisons .
15 Virtually every week we are warned in the media of further devastating environmental effects of our own past excesses ; effects that threaten human as much as non-human life and livelihood .
16 It is a very difficult decision to leave someone out yet , that said , we are striving towards quality and improving the quality of games and players . ’
17 We are striving for perfection in our products , not for making money out of them .
18 Part of what we are striving for as a necessity of our being is simply survival in physical and mental health .
19 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 .
20 In the 1990s , again we are jumping to a new technology — object-oriented programming — as the answer to developing and delivering quality software on time .
21 Presently , we are looking to the completion of the scheme , either as flats or possibly as a small hotel or restaurant .
22 We are looking to the government for a fundamental change in attitudes towards training . ’
23 Now we are looking to more powerful sound systems .
24 We are looking to the ILEA and Sports Council to support this , but a small charge might be necessary as this day is over and above the normal QT days .
25 So we are looking to the effect of the aims , a low paid county , that 's not something , Chairman , I 'm proud of , because I do think that , that those , that areas with a high paid economy are genuinely more prosperous areas .
26 No , no as the Director has indicated , we are looking to the east of the county .
27 Erm the views of the er of the subcommittee are that that this does appear to be er perhaps a practical solution er and at the moment , er we are looking to erm make some of the spaces , certainly in the Church Street car park erm short term , I E two hours , certainly so the people who are who are making shopping visits , or visits to the banks et cetera would get the lower car park and the the people who are staying for a longer time would be at the top .
28 ‘ It has committed itself to this new dental hospital and we are looking to it to deliver . ’
29 Mr Mitchell said yesterday : ‘ We are looking to the future with optimism , hence the investment . ’
30 We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health .
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