Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We 've gone for promotion all along this season , ’ said Gibson . |
| 3 | Am I allowed to set my own tests , which we 've used for donkey 's years ? |
| 4 | We have released sites er in the countryside and we expect the countryside protection policy to apply outside the urban areas and outside of the sites that we 've allocated for development . |
| 5 | Erm within Ryedale we 've got thirty odd hectares of land which we 've allocated for development in the period up to two thousand and six |
| 6 | But in the short-term AS-levels are the only instrument we 've got for change . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm happy with the five hundred thousand pounds suggestion , but my view when you come to the papers , if we are able to hold on to the two hundred thousand contingency we 've got for community care for the elderly and , and the hundred thousand we 've got for bad debts and other figures . |
| 8 | Erm , we 've got for friendship , Harlow 's name is mentioned . |
| 9 | Yes Chairman i it relates to the the body of the policies in the structure plan and if Aida 's plan generally conforms then we must er issue a statement of general conformity er however if there is a , a problem that we 've had for example about the wording of the reference to the erm East Worthing access road , then although that it 's quite proper for this committee to be concerned about that wording and ultimately possibly even to object to the plan on the basis of the wording , it does n't affect the extent to which the plan conforms or does n't conform with the structure plan overall . |
| 10 | We had yearned for supremacy and now had too much of it too easily . |
| 11 | I half slept , then woke as we sped by the rest house where we had stopped for juice on that first visit to Al Ain . |
| 12 | As the crest broke over my head I just wished that we had gone for plan B which was to have used a tandem bicycle for this trip . |
| 13 | But all such categorizations are theory-dependent , and on the view that we have adopted for convenience , namely that pragmatics concerns those aspects of meaning and language-structure that can not be captured in a truth-conditional semantics , the grammatical category of deixis will probably be found to straddle the semantics/pragmatics border . |
| 14 | We have assumed for simplicity that the public sector 's current spending of £5,000 million flows entirely into the industrial and commercial sector in return for goods and services . |
| 15 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 16 | Six patients remained in whom there was no apparent explanation for their DU disease and we have chosen for convenience to refer to these patients as having idiopathic DU . |
| 17 | The members ' status as residual claimants suggests that they have in fact the same interest in profit maximisation as we have postulated for society as a whole , and the incentive to enforce profit maximisation in both their own and the social interest . |