Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [conj] [pers pn] have " in BNC.

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1 It seems as though the world is going on , everybody rushing about their daily tasks , but surely this can only be because they have not yet heard the news or else they too would feel emotionally paralysed .
2 One reason why that will be so is that we have a coherent approach to Europe , not one that changes every weekend .
3 That can not just be because they have a lot of flotations and rights issues to work on .
4 The other reason why women should organise and educate separately is because we have more important work to do than to have our attention and energy continually claimed by men .
5 The reason I have given it the temporary title referred to above is because I have witnessed at least two name exchanges at the station in recent months .
6 Do you think it will always be that we have one ?
7 Oh yes obviously er there is that element there always is and you have to out weigh I think you know creating sub committees that then er .
8 ‘ And the terrifying thing I realised very quickly was that you have to be yourself .
9 Our preoccupation er straightforwardly is that we have a lottery which is run with probity and without impropriety , and the director general has very widespread powers , fact to investigate the backgrounds of any bidders .
10 It will mainly be because they have been in office a long time , and because of the recession .
11 Right , now if we look on , erm we come to Regional Action Networks , another reason why Amnesty seems not to allocate more than one prisoner and all now is that they have expanded the ways in which we deal with prisoners and the world is more or less been divided up into areas , erm , of smaller regions and groups are asked to choose one or two regions to deal with particularly and we , we have for quite a long time now erm been concerned with Southern Africa and Central America and we get information through on prisoners and what 's happening in those two regions , so John do you have anything else on Africa at all ?
12 Okay so you said that the most important concern really is that you have some money for your daughter 's future
13 Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson
14 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 .
15 I mean it may well be that we have to resort to some sort of er
16 It could well be that you have agoraphobia or some kind of depression .
17 It could well be that I have prejudices about what makes a decent DTP system , but I tried to outline and then to justify them as part of the review .
18 The challenge that many of us face today is that we have a choice — whether or not we go out to work , how much domestic machinery we use , how much we involve the rest of the family in housework , whether or not we employ someone else to do the cleaning , how many take-away meals are put on the table , and so on .
19 … the crisis today is that we have fictions which no one admits to be fictions , whereas before people had myths , people had religions , and so on , and a lot of it was believed in as a matter of faith , whereas now everything is presented as real , and it is no more real than the myths of before .
20 None the less , the striking point here is that they have this central feature in common : not just that they both see the life of reason as important , but also that there is a distinctiveness about the quality , character and significance of reason when it is taken up seriously , which marks it out from conventional human experience .
21 She carried her sandwich over to join him , saying : ‘ My excuse for being down here is that I have n't a moment to spare .
22 But this er American pilot , Commanding General , stands before this group with a great sense of humility and a , a sense of great honour , recognizing the only reason I 'm here is because I have to be the Commanding General .
23 Erm the whole question here is if you have more money in a sense , what do you spend it on ?
24 Burun 's chief wife was small and slim , handsome in the way that unremarkable women sometimes are when they have matured past the need for beauty , and the red-gold of her hair was as yet unmarred by the silver which would have betrayed her age .
25 What has happened however is that we have lost the philosophical framework which made the development of patristic Christology possible .
26 The only thing that I 've just thought about actually is window wh in the me on the measurement side rather than anything else is that I have n't Because we 've just had those windows replaced , I have n't finished decorating around the top .
27 One of England 's big problems recently is that they have n't put opposing teams under pressure for any length of time , so all their attacking has been spasmodic .
28 The problem essentially is that you have got simultaneously to account credibly for someone not being at a certain place at a certain time and to account for them precisely being there .
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