Example sentences of "we have [verb] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have heard in this debate that , far from being extinguished by these policies , it is flourishing . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) Select any one of the exam questions we have presented in this chapter . |
| 3 | … our assertion is that adequate preschool provision can improve the quality of life of young children and their families ; this conviction is given further support by the evidence we have presented in this book that pre-school education will in most circumstances aid the child 's development , increase his educational potential and in the long run his overall performance . |
| 4 | Much of the evidence we have presented in this section is based on averages which do , of course , conceal great variations between different groups within the population . |
| 5 | Short-term contract working in manufacturing differed from short-term contract or seasonal working in the three service sectors described above and , indeed , from the other forms of temporary working we have examined in this study , ion that many of the temporary workers concerned were " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 6 | Appreciation of the vital place which the Church had in Medieval life is necessary to an understanding of the buildings which we have inherited from this time . |
| 7 | In chapters 6 and 7 we consider the empirical evidence relating to the model we have developed in this chapter . |
| 8 | If we argue , nevertheless , that prestige models can still account for the trend to simplification and uniformity that we have revealed , we have to explain in this case why simplification should carry prestige . |
| 9 | If what we have seen in this election is the real world , then the sooner we find a way out of it the better . |
| 10 | We have seen in this chapter that little has been achieved in British residential areas in terms of safer and more attractive environments . |
| 11 | We have seen in this chapter how a dual structure of production has been maintained in Japan through the interconnected activities of private business and a state which has supported the simultaneous existence of a limited number of larger companies and a massive network of smaller ones . |
| 12 | As we have seen in this chapter , however , the newcomers , no matter how monolithic and undifferentiated they may seem to the locals , are composed of a number of identifiably separate urban middle-class groups — commuters , weekend cottagers , holiday-home dwellers , retired couples — among whom the village may vary considerably as a centre of their social activities . |
| 13 | That assumption , as we have seen in this chapter , is illegitimate . |
| 14 | We have seen in this chapter how wrong that is . |
| 15 | We have seen in this chapter how , in less than half a century , man 's view of the universe , formed over millennia , has been transformed . |
| 16 | We have seen in this chapter that , according to the neo-classical theory , flexible wages and prices ensure that the labour market is in equilibrium — in other words , full employment is assured in the long-run . |
| 17 | We have seen in this account the rise and legitimation of Conservative criminology for a government elected on a law and order issue . |
| 18 | What we have seen from this investigation is that the concept of proportionality is an essential component of Bukharin 's theory of equilibrium , particularly when applied to the dynamics of the economy . |
| 19 | We do not know whether most of what we have observed in this field can be generalized to other fields or , indeed , to less intensively studied parts of the same field . |
| 20 | What happened is at the beginning of last year , Yvonne said to me er , we have lived in this house for three years , we must decorate it . |
| 21 | If this year we have to stabilize in this way , do these things , then that 's not a bad achievement compared with what we set out with three months ago . |
| 22 | We have played in this country for both Lancashire and Surrey county cricket clubs and have bowled hundreds of overs for both counties . |
| 23 | As you are aware we will not be receiving all of the Grant that we have applied for this year and have been told by the Sports Council that our Grant is to be reduced over the next 3 years and then cease . |
| 24 | To ground the many provisions of , let us say , the UN Declaration of 1948 in the mere possibility of their being defended by moral argument is to consign them to a very combative arena indeed , the vagaries of which we have explored in this chapter and are precisely those exploited by Hare in his gloomy quotation . |
| 25 | We have to see through this framework of thought for what it is : nothing short of academic ideology . |
| 26 | This is the process of ‘ structuration ’ which can be observed so clearly among the British upper class , as we have argued through this section . |
| 27 | We have argued in this section that there are a number of demographic changes in the period 1860–1980 affecting the family-formation part of the family life cycle , which also affect the life cycle as a whole . |
| 28 | ‘ We have waited for this moment for 28 years . |
| 29 | Erm sorry about this , but er it 's a sort of a chore we have to do at this stage . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , well , there are many things we have to do in this business that are distasteful . |