Example sentences of "[be] that we have " 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 But may be that we had a description , want to get the description out to as many people as possible , to see if anybody recognizes the person described , er then we 'd come to you there , give you the description of the
4 You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage .
5 So again perhaps tied in our prices , it might be that we 've assumed that we 'd do more , perhaps than the other groups .
6 The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition .
7 The other development officer predicted making considerable use of volunteers as well as paid carers : ‘ it may be that we have two types of carer , an informal unpaid visiting service , and then the regular paid carers ’ .
8 It may not be that we have become too sophisticated but that we are so confused we seek salvation even from out there .
9 It may be that we have upset someone and a rift exists .
10 In a letter to his congregation he said : ‘ It may be that we have no influence on those who plan and carry out murders in both parts of our community , but we can all help create a climate of opinion where they will be increasingly isolated and disowned . ’
11 The hypothesis appears to be that we have inherited from our animal ancestors the habit of discrimination , but have added an additional criterion , namely the conscious calculation of relatedness , to the criteria of propinquity , and perhaps physical and biochemical similarity , used by animals .
12 I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs .
13 The problem will be that we have no great tacklers in the midfield without Batts .
14 If I had any criticism of our organisation it would be that we have a tendency to hide our light under a bushel .
15 I mean it may well be that we have to resort to some sort of er
16 Do you think it will always be that we have one ?
17 We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet .
18 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 .
19 One I mean one of the reason 's that we 've actually changed these round and and do n't think it 's right is because the has a there 's been a cut cut cost cutting exercise within the building .
20 If we go to an exhibition together we find that we like the same paintings ; so I think it 's that we have an empathy in our way of painting , in the whole attitude to painting .
21 None of this music for Lovers Made Men and The Vision of Delight has survived , but the earliest piece of Lanier 's that we have , ‘ Bring away this sacred tree ’ for the Earl of Somerset 's Wedding Masque ( 1613 ) , is close in style to Guedron 's recits ( cf.
22 The other view is that we 've got a rule and we 've got to stick to it . ’
23 The result is that we 've received over 3,000 hours of new work , and most of this is on priority jobs .
24 ‘ The saddest thing is that we 've been persuaded that true travellers know how to haggle .
25 ‘ The point I 'm tryin' to make is that we 've done well — even you , Noreen .
26 He said : ‘ All I know is that we 've signed him on a playing contract for four years and we 're delighted to have him back .
27 I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got .
28 The th the snapshot is that we 've looked at twenty eight jobs , and out of those twenty eight jobs , if we have been working on scale fees , it would appear that we would have lost money on twenty of them .
29 ‘ The problem about us , ’ said Helen , ‘ is that we 've never felt the same way about money as most other people seem to . ’
30 It , but er the difference this is that we 've got a piece of fabric coming of there with a weight holding it down .
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