Example sentences of "[be] [conj] we have [verb] " 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 I mean it may well be that we have to resort to some sort of er
4 It may not be that we have become too sophisticated but that we are so confused we seek salvation even from out there .
5 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 .
6 It may be that we have upset someone and a rift exists .
7 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 .
8 This may be because we have lost sight of what education is about , or , at best , because we disagree on the aims and objectives of education .
9 It has to be because we have to get our hands in .
10 But seriously , why do you suppose there has been so little said about Sunday trading in the book trade ? could it be because we have failed to make a ‘ cold , calculating examination of the long term balance of financial advantage ’ ?
11 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 .
12 And the quality improvement is once we have found that we 've got a problem , how do we stop it recurring ?
13 Oh sorry erm we are expect the business this year to break even it broke even last year , erm and the reason for that is that we have expanded business very rapidly , last year we had only thirty five stores this year we 'll have fifty and we will probably have a similar sort of expansion programme for next year .
14 The reason why we are embarrassed to admit this is that we have lived in an age when the self-sufficiency , the autonomy of poems has been elevated into dogma .
15 ‘ But my feeling is that we have to pick our best possible squad to win Tests — and that 's something which I believe even more after this tour . ’
16 What is new is that we have moved from too few qualified nurses coming to work in the operating theatres , to not enough people entering nursing .
17 So the end result , as before , is that we have reached the end of a particular analytic path only to be confronted with signposts pointing in a new direction .
18 But a primary condition is that we have to let go of those aspects of our past that are no longer helpful or relevant .
19 What has happened however is that we have lost the philosophical framework which made the development of patristic Christology possible .
20 The reason is that we have accumulated such a burden of public and private debt that there is no confidence in our economy .
21 The other point that raises from the agreement is that we have to agree , agree a purchasing plan with the Health Authority particularly relating to nursing home care , and that purchasing plan at the moment is still at the draft stages because as Mike referred to earlier , we have no information from the Department of Health on the percentage of the funding to be spent in the independent sector .
22 ‘ I have spoken to most captains and a lot of players and the general feeling is that we have played against sides in the past with Test players and we wanted to be able to fight fire with fire so to speak .
23 Since the condition for effective crack-stopping is that we have to weaken the material by a factor of five , the process does not sound a very promising one .
24 The truth of the matter is that we have seen a substantial reduction in direct tax rates , a substantial improvement in standards of living and , as a result of the reduction in tax rates , an improvement in the tax base , which has enabled us not only to achieve increased public spending on a large scale in our key priority areas , especially health , but to achieve a reduction in direct income tax and , overall , considerably to improve our public sector borrowing requirement .
25 The other point I 'm trying to say is that we have to insure with a Department of Trade approved insurer , so that should anything , for any reason , ever happen to ourselves or a company , then the insurance company is still responsible for the claims and will meet them .
26 The reason is that we have driven the 500SL , which in its most basic form , is actually fractionally cheaper than the fully loaded 300SL-24 .
27 Mr Taylor said : ‘ What is clear is that we have come closer together .
28 ‘ The fundamental thing is that we have come away from true asset finance , ’ said Tony Foley , director of Leaseplan , which has a portfolio of £60m in asset finance plus a further £150m in vehicle leasing .
29 But that said , erm what what it what the position is , er i is that we have put into the model Well we have n't put it into the model because it was given to us a part of the model and possibly by now North Yorkshire may have the revised model , No they have n't yet .
30 The problem is that we have got the balance wrong .
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