Example sentences of "of [pron] we have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Therefore , ’ said Milton , ‘ since there appear to be only five possibles — all of whom we have decided are improbables — we 're going to have to work quite hard . |
| 2 | We will pay to you such sum as may be fair and reasonable in all the circumstances of the case in respect of work performed by you under this order prior to cancellation , and in respect of which we have received the benefit . |
| 3 | To ground the many provisions of , let us say , the UN Declaration of 1948 in the mere possibility of their being defended by moral argument is to consign them to a very combative arena indeed , the vagaries of which we have explored in this chapter and are precisely those exploited by Hare in his gloomy quotation . |
| 4 | It 's pretty lucky that Mr Punch 's exclusive eight-point plan should be so eerily coincidental with the closure of Punch , of which we have heard so much . ’ |
| 5 | We have looked upon it almost as convertible with thought , of which we have called it the very stuff and process . |
| 6 | Indeed , there are many studies of primitive communities which not only claim that this possibility is realized but depict in detail the life of a society where the only means of social control is that general attitude of the group towards its own standard modes of behaviour in terms of which we have characterized rules of obligation … |
| 7 | Detailed trends in the distribution of income at any one time are the net result of many forces , several of which we have mentioned already . |
| 8 | It is also that the perspectives necessarily adopted by very different interest groups , some of which we have tried to reproduce here , will contain a degree of indeterminacy of translation between themselves . |
| 9 | Following the further arguments of which we have had the benefit , I should find it very difficult , in conscience , to reach a conclusion adverse to the appellants on the basis of a technical rule of construction requiring me to ignore the very material which in this case indicates unequivocally which of the two possible interpretations of section 63(2) of the Act of 1976 was intended by Parliament . |
| 10 | The same could be said of the recent Starfield and Chandler ranges , both of which we have looked at lately , and if this steering away from routine duplication is indeed a new trend , then it 's one which I applaud wholeheartedly . |
| 11 | For all of us , happiness is the result of everything we have experienced and possessed in life . |
| 12 | We are all made up of what we have achieved in the past , the character we have developed , our strong points , our weaknesses . |
| 13 | More details of what we have achieved in these areas can be found on the back page of this report . |
| 14 | " We hope to be able to communicate with all our people and to inform them of what we have decided . " |
| 15 | We do not know whether most of what we have observed in this field can be generalized to other fields or , indeed , to less intensively studied parts of the same field . |
| 16 | ‘ But , ’ I replied , ‘ if any of what we have said is true , why does Queen Margaret grieve over the corpse of an imposter ? |
| 17 | In view of what we have said about the suitability of particular registers for writing , you may be surprised that we ourselves are adopting a relatively conversational register in this book . |
| 18 | ‘ But we are proud of what we have done in the last year and a half . ’ |
| 19 | I simply wished to describe the most specific and doubtless least familiar , aspects of what we have done . |
| 20 | I hope all of you know or have met this good friend of the Hundred I 'm sure that most of you have and he has with him today a guest from Germany , Herr and his charming daughter er and Mr was a member of the and has provided invaluable information here , who as you know is doing a , a comprehensive book on the monster mission and in commemoration of what we have done today , we have a letter addressed to er the Hundredth Bomb Group Memorial Association U K , from the Most Reverend Doctor the Bishop of Munster which I would like to read to you . |
| 21 | Much of what we have written about verbal intercourse is relevant to the understanding of problems in sexual intercourse . |
| 22 | Inevitably , the absence of a sense of completeness or fulfilment leaves us dissatisfied and forgetful of what we have heard . |
| 23 | But before we go we must understand the full import of what we have seen . |
| 24 | Keynes imagined a socially painless ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ which would be ‘ nothing sudden , merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain , and will need no revolution ’ ( Keynes , 1936 , p. 376 ) . |
| 25 | As the prophet Jesus could say with authority , ‘ Amen , amen I say unto you , ’ and claim to speak final truth about God , ‘ We speak of what we know , and bear witness of what we have seen ’ ( John 3:11 ) . |
| 26 | Employing those conceptions , we can ask how we can know that we have succeeded in referring to anything , and how we can know that we have come up with an accurate description of what we have referred to . |
| 27 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |
| 28 | Yet much of what we have discussed can be overcome with sensitivity and by trying to ‘ feel into ’ how the family and friends of the dead person are feeling . |
| 29 | It 's the giving back of what we have got . |
| 30 | Instead he proposes an approach that asks the question ‘ How do these people deal with certain basic human predicaments ? ’ and makes the pertinent point that ‘ the problem is not the quality we have isolated , e.g. , aggression , but how far we can get with an adequate description of what we have found ’ . |