Example sentences of "we have [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would wish to stress again , with the district council 's support I suspect , that that overshoot really it 's to sites within the urban area , as in windfall sites in general planning terms we have seen to be acceptable er in planning terms , but we would wish to stress that part part of that approach has been a continuing resistance to development on greenfield sites on the edge of the the urban area . |
| 2 | Though in a different way , what we have seen to be true of Gide was also true of Wilde : ‘ running foul of the law in his sexual life was a stimulus to thought on every subject … . |
| 3 | No doubt this draper 's ‘ Rep ’ would have cut a bit of a dashing figure in the big city in his way , replete with some of the family charm and salesmanship which we have assumed to be one of the hallmarks of William Charles himself . |
| 4 | Much of our recent research has been directed to testing this idea , which we have shown to be incorrect . |
| 5 | That being so , teachers felt themselves to be under pressure to adopt practices whose efficacy we have shown to be debatable . |
| 6 | We 're frightened of what will happen and sometimes we have need to be frightened , you know , they are going to do very different things because they disagree violently with us . |
| 7 | ‘ We realise this is a long-term problem and we have tried to be helpful , ’ said Mrs Mitchell . |
| 8 | But they do not question traditional psychology 's male-identified emphasis on , for example , objectivity and success : ‘ We are both feminists … and although we have tried to be objective about the value-laden topics discussed in this book , we know we can not have succeeded entirely ’ ( 1974 : 12–13 , my emphasis ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Market focus is around what we have to do to deliver our promise to the customer , what we have to achieve to be successful . |
| 10 | ‘ Their reputation is built on the fact that they are a counter-attacking side and we have got to be careful . |
| 11 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 12 | Either chemists , pharmacists and medical practitioners should be totally amoral and provide patients with any drug they want — including fatal poisons — to use as they wish , or else we have got to be prepared to take the moral stands our consciences and beliefs press on us . |
| 13 | The answer we have arrived at is that complicated things have some quality , specifiable in advance , that is highly unlikely to have been acquired by random chance alone . |
| 14 | ‘ I would like us to put a run together until the end of the season we have three games left and we have to try to be professional and win them all . ’ |
| 15 | First and foremost , we have to understand that we rarely fear what we have found to be true . |
| 16 | Since there has been such extensive research on both systems we have had to be selective : we have therefore confined ourselves to discussing just one line of work in connection with each . |
| 17 | Walking , for example , is an activity which as we go about in everyday life we have ceased to be aware of ; but when we dance the automatically performed gestures of walking are perceived anew . |