Example sentences of "we [modal v] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may have drunk judgmentalism in our mother 's milk , or received a streak of meanness from our father . |
| 2 | With the government 's membership scheme coming ‘ we may have all-seater stadiums for all-member clubs . |
| 3 | With the government 's membership scheme coming ‘ we may have all-seater stadiums for all-member clubs . |
| 4 | We may have another woman prime Minister , but not necessarily another Margaret Thatcher . |
| 5 | ‘ We may have different accents but we are all the same , ’ they asserted . |
| 6 | We may have different backgrounds , inhabit different walks of life , possess different hopes , fears and aspirations . |
| 7 | Along with privatisation , Gallist said ‘ the political will to rebalance tariffs exists , but when it comes to specifying the timeframe , we may have more problems . ’ |
| 8 | At least things are moving now on 2807 and we may have more news in the near future . |
| 9 | For those of us with children , we may have more reason than just our own good health to consider in trying to find out what a healthy diet is . |
| 10 | It would be difficult to give a definitive answer , but we may have some clue . |
| 11 | ‘ We will join you downstairs and this time we may have some sort of rational discussion , ’ Alain said firmly , taking matters into his own hands . |
| 12 | We may have some desire to be appreciated for our physical appearance , but most of us would hope to be desired for what we are down inside . |
| 13 | I think we may have some news soon about Bill and Ricky . |
| 14 | For example , if you arrive in my business dressed as a surgeon , a priest or a barrister when I was expecting a banker then we may have initial problems in communicating . |
| 15 | Oh , hang on David I think we ought to have that jumper off you . |
| 16 | The police er do n't refer a lot of things to us , I know it 's difficult but er I feel that we ought to have more occasions er where er we are made aware of things that happen and then we can help er in various ways by referrals to those agencies and of course , financially . |
| 17 | We had to put a bloke in hospital there ; and so the owd skipper say to me : ‘ Boy , ’ he says , ‘ we ought to have another hand . |
| 18 | That 's why I think we ought to have another quote for the roof actually . |
| 19 | Perhaps we ought to have some lunch ? ’ |
| 20 | I did make the point that Mr Maxwell 's company wants co-operation on the eastern edge of the City , vis-á-vis their football stadium , and we ought to have some co-operation on the western edge of the City where all these houses are boarded up and empty , bought at double the market value , and I made that point publicly . |
| 21 | I do n't want to rush you but I 've booked at the bistro down the road for nine o'clock so we ought to have this drink and go . ’ |
| 22 | You 've noticed that Healthmaster does not have erm , just smoker , non-smoker rates , because if we actually just simply mention dwelled on that perhaps we should 've little bit longer . |
| 23 | ‘ We are due to take the Norwegian striker Frank Strandli from IK Start when problems over a work permit are sorted out , there are some promising young players coming through and we should have key men David Batty and Mel Sterland back after injury soon . ’ |
| 24 | Now as economists we should have strong prides about income in this model , we would all , we would expect income to be very important in explaining textile consumption although the model is telling us at the moment , income does n't seem to be significantly explained in textile consumption so that 's something to worry about , we 're getting some , er sort of peculiar results here . |
| 25 | But it has been said before we should have professional referees — the sooner it 's sorted out the better . |
| 26 | ‘ Mother Francis says we should have enquiring minds , that everyone should ask . ’ |
| 27 | Wells ( 1982 : 328 ) regards /f/ and / / as underlyingly different for all London speakers , since " if [ ] and [ f ] were stylistic alternatives realising the same underlying phoneme /f/ in all cases , we should have frequent hypercorrections such as * [ a v ] or [ a ] five " but these are virtually unknown . |
| 28 | In logic we would say to ourselves because the Germans are getting more seats , because East Germany is being added to the union , why on earth should Britain get more as well and it seems very difficult to explain why we should have extra seats at all . |
| 29 | Although we are now debating a piece of works legislation , it represents a major reform of parliamentary procedure , so I put down a marker at this stage to the effect that the Minister should be more forthcoming in considering whether we should have new procedures for dealing with orders . |
| 30 | ‘ Until that decision is known we can not begin to draw up an engineering schedule but we should have all works completed by the end of 1995 , ’ said an NGC spokesman . |