Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we might have expected these to vary in the same direction as the specialist team 's , they in fact exhibit a different set of distinctions , particularly in the high rate of service provision and the trend towards maintaining cases as live . |
| 2 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 3 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 4 | That way , if the worst happens an' they fire the house an' make a run fer it , we 'll drive most of 'em back towards the highway , where we 'll have a reception committee waitin' to meet ‘ em ! |
| 5 | After what seemed like ages we popped out of the cloud and confirmed our dead-reckoned position as overhead the airfield of Vila Real , where we would have landed but it had no avgas . |
| 6 | But it is not only in the UK where we must have a more positive attitude to science . |
| 7 | Returned to the invisibility of the home front , where we should have been all along , unaccounted for among the statistics of unemployment , stuck with the main responsibility for unpaid community care as the welfare state collapsed , women have seen the major characteristics of the depression of the 1980s depicted as male and youth unemployment , the destruction of men 's jobs , small businessmen going bankrupt and resentment turning to violence on the streets . |
| 8 | As WWF senior conservation officer Simon Lyster explains : ‘ We have to target our efforts on those areas where we can have a real impact — both inside and outside existing ‘ protected areas ’ . ’ |
| 9 | Is there anywhere around here where we can have a cup of coffee ? ’ |
| 10 | There is no place , for example , where we can have a coffee-break with them during the morning . |
| 11 | GUIL : Our names shouted in a certain dawn … a message … a summons … there must have been a moment , at the beginning , where we could have said — no . |
| 12 | He could quite easily have asked to meet me or my noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces — with whom he has been corresponding , as he said — at the Ministry of Defence , where we could have discussed the matter in a more suitable environment . |
| 13 | And that building there , the one with the green roof , that 's Ebenezer Chapel where we used to have lessons some mornings because there was n't room for us all in the school . |
| 14 | We 've got an emergency exit where we used to have a roof . |
| 15 | He continued , " they are coming in here shortly and there will be papa , mama and a daughter ; we will go to the Savoy Grill where we will have a little meal " . |
| 16 | Please could I ask for a moment 's silence and look to the north er we wil where we will have a dedication fly past by A-Tens of the Eighty-First Tactical Fighter Wing . |
| 17 | So er obviously I did n't know anything about the money owed or we would 've endeavoured to pay it off straight away when we went to the bank er originally when it went when it folded . |
| 18 | If we sh wanted other conditions we 'd live on a different planet or we would have developed on a different plant . |
| 19 | We got here in the nick of time or we would have had the rotten table otherwise . |
| 20 | It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope . |
| 21 | When searching , we may know where to look or we may have to scan around to find out where to direct our search more intensely . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , get your best friend to take you home , ’ said the first constable , ‘ or we might have to take you down to the station for the good of your health . ’ |
| 23 | God might have annexed colour sensations to the kind of light reaching our eyes in ; quite different way from that which he has done , so that the very same things ( in their real nature ) which are red to us might have been blue , and vice versa , or we might have experienced , quite different range of colours in the same physical situations . |
| 24 | Dear Mr Westgate , I think we should have more footpaths or we might have a good chance of being killed . |
| 25 | or we might have to bring this back a bit |
| 26 | ‘ We 'll either be here next year — or we 'll have gone under , ’ he quipped at the awards ceremony in London on September 23 . |
| 27 | ‘ OK , we 'll have another look but do n't tell anyone else or we 'll have the whole village digging it up . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's between Louth and Willoughby but I 'm not saying exactly or we 'll have the whole world knowing ! ’ |
| 29 | the scheme will be redundant or we 'll have retired at |
| 30 | GUIL : Now mind your tongue , or we 'll have it out and throw the rest of you away , like a nightingale at a Roman feast . |