Example sentences of "[be] [that] we have [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 However , I think the practicalities in the situation are that we have to face the fact that they are not going to behave impartially and you see we have a classic example in er the circumstances of our own situation as described by John .
2 She said : ‘ The strength of my country in recent years has been that we have had no coalition , just clear leadership , a clear majority and clear decisions .
3 I think it 's very much linked with the safeguard being that we have got the one year cushion of , of carry forwards sums there to meet any immediate problems within the year , and give ourselves breathing space to , to address those in the longer term .
4 The consequence of that is that we 've seen a continuation of road-building schemes which have caused considerable damage to the countryside , devastated communities and have no real hope of soaking up the so-called demand for new roads .
5 Could I just start with the white paper on community care funding because I think , as he said in the introduction , it is a complex subject , erm , and it does involve a lengthy transition period , and therefore in terms of its understanding , I think it 's important that members are aware both how the money is coming to us , broadly what we 're doing with it , and , and how it is that we 've reached the conclusion that there 's a great under-funding in the , in the present proposals .
6 The other view is that we 've got a rule and we 've got to stick to it . ’
7 It , but er the difference this is that we 've got a piece of fabric coming of there with a weight holding it down .
8 The good news is that we 've got the ticket agencies on our side .
9 Erm now the impact of those is twofold , one is that we 've got the overspend on the data integrity and the U A three , cos it was n't in the budget at all .
10 So the end result , as before , is that we have reached the end of a particular analytic path only to be confronted with signposts pointing in a new direction .
11 What has happened however is that we have lost the philosophical framework which made the development of patristic Christology possible .
12 Since the condition for effective crack-stopping is that we have to weaken the material by a factor of five , the process does not sound a very promising one .
13 The truth of the matter is that we have seen a substantial reduction in direct tax rates , a substantial improvement in standards of living and , as a result of the reduction in tax rates , an improvement in the tax base , which has enabled us not only to achieve increased public spending on a large scale in our key priority areas , especially health , but to achieve a reduction in direct income tax and , overall , considerably to improve our public sector borrowing requirement .
14 The reason is that we have driven the 500SL , which in its most basic form , is actually fractionally cheaper than the fully loaded 300SL-24 .
15 The problem is that we have got the balance wrong .
16 The reason why we have not been able to debate the report is that we have had a great deal of other business to do .
17 My own belief is that we have had a sea change in the nature of employment in Britain and in other western societies .
18 Another advantage of the IBM environment is that we have had the benefits of a comprehensive and integrated payroll and personnel information system for a number of years .
19 No they 're not the realities , because what we 're saying is that we have to modernize the policies of the Labour Party , but the policies are absolutely based in our traditional concerns , I mean , let me give you an example , when Beveridge was talking about unemployment , and the life long need for people to work , he was talking about a male workforce , where it was a man supported by a non-working wife , now we still have at the absolute heart of our concerns in the Labour Party peoples need to work , but we 're now talking about a situation , where women are sharing with their husbands the role of bed breadwinner , and in many families the woman is the sole breadwinner , and therefore our policies about employment and the economy recognize that the world has changed , our principles are the same , but the world to which we 're applying it is very different , and , again , on that you see there would be no distinction between the so-called traditionalists and the so-called modernizers .
20 All that mattered was that we had reached the summit , and more importantly had a good day out .
21 However , at the moment my only concern was that we had completed the circuit of the park .
22 One of those lessons was that we had to align the needs of the platform with those of the systems .
23 The only problem was that we had envisaged a tumbledown affair that we would rebuild over the period of time while we were still living and working in London .
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