Example sentences of "[noun pl] we have of " in BNC.

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1 The pictures we have of people act as assumptions .
2 These , then , are some of the symbolic inklings we have of eternity , and of our divinely-destined path of happiness .
3 Fortunately , Karajan 's career is so well documented , officially and unofficially , on gramophone recordings , it is possible to check for oneself whether the performances tally with some of the more outlandish descriptions we have of them .
4 High divorce rates and a high incidence of dissatisfaction among both sexes indicate that we may need to rethink the forms of relationships , the roles we play within them , and the expectations we have of them .
5 On the films we have of him conducting , his face is impassive , like a mask .
6 ‘ Our senses … do convey into the mind , several distinct perceptions of things … and thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow , white , [ etc . ] ’
7 But what of the ideas we have of a centaur , of God , of infinity , or of an as yet unbuilt house ?
8 He also found that Locke , once having made a similar distinction , provided no good reason for belief in a world over and above the ideas we have of it .
9 Certainly we can not rest with the three ordinary ideas we have of the distinction between the causal items and their effects .
10 This is backed up by the accounts we have of many aspects of the economic structure of the music business then : the drive for profit , the trend towards monopoly and conglomeration , the conservative appeal to the predictable and universally understood ( see for example , Peterson and Berger 1975 : 160–4 ; Laing 1969 : 43–5 ; Sanjek 1988 ) .
11 We ought to focus on the practical and urgent business problems we have of managing our growth and creating a business strategy that will unite us . ’
12 The Turner Prize is therefore one of the few ways we have of acknowledging the contribution the visual arts play in our culture .
13 It is no longer the kiss of death to an actor ( watch this space ) , and it 's one of the few ways we have of paying the school fees on a regular basis .
14 The first details we have of the latter , in the Host 's invitation to him to follow the Monk , initially suggest , if we still believe appearances and associations can be a sign of character , that he is as likely to turn out as the threadbare and serious Clerk on his horse " " as leene as is a rake " " does ( I : 284 ) as to prove to be what the Monk has proved not to be :
15 Perhaps this is one of the most vivid examples we have of the effect of the pictorial image on the medieval mind .
16 Yet this notion of compassionate leave is one of the indications we have of how society accepts the significance of having someone close to us die .
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