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

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1 This will facilitate the integration of spending and revenue-raising , a measure we have long advocated .
2 This is a marriage we have here .
3 And now a point we have now done that , we have now done one , right that is now going to be dealt with by Simon and introduced by Monica are they going to be dated the day she produces them or what are going to be dated ?
4 My mother always told me to put on clean underwear in case I got knocked over and taken to hospital , but the possibility that someone 's drunken wife might decide to revenge herself on her husband by going down on me was not a scenario we had ever discussed .
5 At the same time there was some evidence that those who had a more general interest in politics , as distinct from those who found the campaign interesting ( a distinction we have already found significant in other contexts ) , were likely to record lower levels of total approval .
6 If we were a fruiterer. we had more more quote like er wh what did they call them ?
7 ‘ But a lad we 've never even met ? ’ he said .
8 It is a phrase which often brings a gentle shiver of recognition — as though it is a truth we had always known but had long forgotten ; a truth concealed within our own hearts .
9 ‘ Although Stevie and I had known each other for a while we had never been romantically involved .
10 Very soon the computer world which we associate with work , word processors and video games will start connecting us to our TV in a relationship we 've never had before .
11 What a selection we have here ! — the Gluck/Sgambati Mélodie from Orphée , Bach/Petri Menuet , Bach 's Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue ( Busoni edition , made in one take complete with Petri 's comments for Lee Hoiby at Mills College in 1951 and sounding fantastic ) , Beethoven 's Sonata in F sharp ( with a singing tone similar to Solomon 's ) , the greatest ever Brahms Variations on a Theme of Paganini ( also done in one take ) , three gorgeous Liszt numbers — Un Sospiro , Gnomenreigen and Mazeppa , and four Liszt transcriptions — ‘ Faust ’ Waltz ( Gounod ) , Liebebotschaft , Die Forelle and Soirée de Vinne No. 6 ( all Schubert ) .
12 The Beatles , The Rolling Stones and The Who were breaking the mould but still could be found ‘ thumbs up ’ and smiling in the glamour-stuffed pages of the NME who , with its circulation well in excess of 200,000 , was firmly established as the British pop bible , a title we have never let slip from our grasp .
13 And the final thing , a factor we 've already mentioned , price competition .
14 A spokesman for Dr Clarke said : ‘ We are official candidates so in a democracy we have as much right to appear as the others . ’
15 ‘ Full many a glorious morning ’ has been ruined and disgraced by ‘ the basest clouds ’ : They ‘ may ’ stain : the ambiguity of the verb ( ‘ it can happen ’ ; ‘ it is allowed ’ ) points up the ambivalence of feeling , for the poem is clearly another example of a strategy we have already found in the Mistress poems , an apparent exculpation which is in fact an indictment .
16 Similarly Mary Whitehouse was reported as saying : ‘ However wicked he was , he is the product of a society we have all helped to create . ’
17 But we then took a view about , about future years because in a sense we 've always been , obviously had to provide for the er , year impression .
18 So that in a sense we have all been clipping , fleaing , and paring .
19 As a union we 've successfully argued albeit belatedly at some times , that TUPE protects public sector workers in all cases of contracting out .
20 As can be seen from our position at the bottom , it is a secret we have yet to uncover .
21 ‘ We have no desire to break the law , as a federation we have always advocated that we observe the law of the land .
22 It is a message we have all heard before .
23 We were eager to spend extended time in a city we had always enjoyed .
24 We do it when we decide that someone is unable to attend a school we have already described as ‘ comprehensive ’ .
25 But for a generation we have too often tolerated increasing levels of inflation , culminating in the disastrous hyper-inflation of the late '70s .
26 Absorbed , bonded in the building in a way we 've yet to establish .
27 Well , this is a problem we have basically because again , your your media etcetera is male dominated erm everything we come across in in our line is male dominated so we have got to break down these barriers and it is n't easy to do !
28 We have always said so , she thought , wanting to cry with annoyance , as a family we have always agreed about it .
29 ‘ And me on Mushroom , a Shetland we had once .
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