Example sentences of "we have [verb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | We 'd known that in the mountains and in due course I was to see it myself from the other side of the fence . |
2 | Our role is to propose a prudent council tax and that is what we 've done and at the end of the day I agree , the figures are juggled one way or another but it does show a net saving of one point three million and however you look at it Mr Mayor I 'm sure the leader of the council , if he adopted these proposals , could then find somewhere a sum for a stress control officer . |
3 | I mean what we 've heard that in fact erm they had met in prison , but was that known to you at that time or simply that they were known to each other and that had a record ? |
4 | One factor in this is our exporting the very successful Bridal Collection that we developed in the U K , we 've exported that to Canada and the U S and that 's gone down very well indeed . |
5 | The food taking too long , we 'll ring them up tomorrow , but historically , we 've found that by tonight , they 've usually sorted the problem out . |
6 | ‘ We 've found that in Berlin it 's not polite to pick up the phone and offer a painting . |
7 | And obviously it 'll be very dependent on how much money we 've got as to what our stavin staffing establishment will be . |
8 | We will have to , by law , respond to them , but you ca n't see the Children Act outside of the context of what we 're already doing with our other Children 's Services , as you know from previous discussions we 've had and from keeping track in the papers , over the last eighteen months we 've been recruiting more foster carers , reducing the number of children 's homes , developing preventative services rather than receiving children into care . |
9 | And those are the three things get that right plus a compliment slip and a letter heading , because if we have to lift a logo if that if we had to lift that off er you know photocopy wo n't er photocopy wo n't do , so we we take a compliment slip or letter heading . |
10 | He had always been confident that Fibres would survive even during its darkest days : ‘ Parts of our business are volatile and people are used to reacting quickly and decisively — that is what we had to do but on a very big scale and at very considerable cost . ’ |
11 | We again found ourselves in a situation where we had to descend because of icing . |
12 | Erm , on software we said we said we had to add that into our procedures anyhow , last , on our last year view meeting , did n't we , which is what we 've done and we 've also as of today set up a system of logging new software coming in and signing it . |
13 | But FA spokesman Mike Wilmore said : ‘ We have said that in principle we would n't be in favour , but it would be a brave man who said that would always be the position . ’ |
14 | It follows from what we have said that in our judgment the decision of the judge to stay the proceedings in the instant case was wrong . |
15 | ‘ It follows from what we have said that in our judgment the decision of the judge to stay the proceedings in the instant case was wrong . |
16 | We have made our policies absolutely clear , not just by asserting that we have it in mind to take action , but by stating what we have planned and by making announcements for new equipment and new forces . |
17 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
18 | We have to remember that in many cases it was , ironically , only accidental hardening by destructive fires that preserved caches of clay tablets as samples of the Minoan scripts . |
19 | We have discovered that to our cost this season . |
20 | We have seen that during a period of twenty years between the wars , town planning in Britain consolidated its position in local authority practice , consultant advocacy and professional solidarity , though little was achieved by way of addition to intellectual content or method . |
21 | ‘ They just try and make the criminal more fearful of crime but more laws do not mean less crime we have seen that with all their previous measures . |
22 | As for the first of these concepts , we have seen that to a considerable extent in most schools the project achieved the objective of broadly based participation in devising curriculum-related library plans . |
23 | We have seen that for him religion corresponds to his concept of Truth ; it is what binds man to Truth . |
24 | We have seen that for effective teaching in higher education to take place , someone , somewhere should have engaged in research . |
25 | We have seen that for a reaction to be spontaneous must be positive . |
26 | We have seen that on 13 June the Court of Appeal had decided in Heaton 's case that the Transport and General Workers ' Union was not accountable for the action of its shop stewards . |
27 | It claimed that there were not enough members on them ; yet we have seen that in Tsaritsyn at least there was a superfluity of ineffective plenary members . |
28 | We have seen that in the process of production , the means of production are used up ( the raw material is worked over , various auxiliary substances are required … machines themselves , and the buildings in which the work is done , as well as all kinds of instruments … wear out ) ; on the other hand , labour-power is also exhausted ( when people work , they also deteriorate , their labour-power is used up , and a certain expenditure must be incurred in order to re-establish this labour-power ) . |
29 | At his consecration , he had promised to maintain Canterbury 's rights of every kind , from the primacy down to the smallest knight 's fee , and we have seen that in Rufus 's reign he allowed many , as we might think , greater matters to lie dormant while he fought for Canterbury 's rights . |
30 | We have seen that in the media reporting at the stage of the trial a women 's sexual conduct is often brought into question . |