Example sentences of "we have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have little evidence from research as to how the members of such households view the changing balance of the relationship . |
| 2 | We have little idea of how well other old people cope without the help of the formal sector , though it is not unreasonable to suppose that many struggle in a considerable degree of discomfort and risk . |
| 3 | Even if the early 1980s mark the trough of the latest Kondratiev cycle we have little idea of what is happening to the UK economy unless we can explain what gives rise to these long waves , Long-wave theorists rely upon fluctuations in innovation by firms for most of their explanatory power . |
| 4 | We are far from being able to specify all the things that actually take place in a learning situation , and ( as we saw earlier ) we have little knowledge of the implications of individual difference for our work . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , if that 's so it is indeed a great pity , Dr Ash , but in view of Dr Prior 's importance to the company you must understand that we have little choice in this matter . |
| 6 | Had they done that we have little doubt that the tribunal decision would have been otherwise than it was . ’ |
| 7 | The lake rarely freezes so we have little opportunity to discover our ice-legs . |
| 8 | Although we have little opportunity to meet the participants socially , there is very little sense of social barrier , and I wonder what all these western myths about the ‘ inscrutable Chinese ’ mean . |
| 9 | Such communications may clearly show signs of similarity to our own human allocation of emotions and feelings — anger , affection , dominance and so on — but of how a chimpanzee actually feels anger , we have little comprehension . |
| 10 | The overall effect is visually complicated and inelegant , and could only be explained by recourse to arcane ritual references , which at this distance of time we have little hope of tracing . |
| 11 | If there are orthographic paragraph divisions in the original version of this text which were made for the sake of appearance on the page , then we have little hope of identifying such divisions in any formal way . |
| 12 | No doubt this is all a part of nature 's design to keep the community together , but of how a chimpanzee 's inner mind is structured , and of how they feel , we have little notion . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , since the brains of dead people rot swiftly , we have little notion of the degree of crenulation of the Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon brain . |
| 14 | resulted in the controllers making … a puritan attack directed at the drug taking of the ( underground ) movement ; and since the drug-scene is complex and confused , and we have little time in which to develop a reliable folk-lore about drugs and how to take them ( as we have long ago done about alcohol ) , they have been particularly successful in fostering anxiety among teachers , parents and establishment figures . |
| 15 | Because we are engaged in practical actions of great complexity , which we nevertheless ‘ pull off ’ day after day , we have little time to stand back and analyse how we do all the things that we do . |
| 16 | Unfortunately we have little time for digressions however entertaining they might be . |
| 17 | We have little time . |
| 18 | But in the ghosts of the house ‘ we have little interest … ‘ , he wrote . |
| 19 | In our day-to-day lives , including day-to-day scientific lives , we have little need of such confirmed hypotheses . |
| 20 | It is in this area that more clinical research might most profitably be done , for these are complex psychological phenomena about which we have little certainty . |
| 21 | Secondly , we have little information on the sites at each end of the trackways , since only scatters of flints have been found on the higher , drier , islands and uplands . |
| 22 | We have little reason to assume that the response of solitary lesions would be fundamentally different . |
| 23 | Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies . |
| 24 | But we have little understanding of why this should be . |
| 25 | ‘ I believe we need to have jails in every county as we have inadequate space in our prisons . |
| 26 | To improve the quality of our work , these are erm , when I say though the current position is the technical quality is variable , these this assessment comes from internal reviews which are carried out and we have annual quality control reviews in all parts of the of the practice and the answers that have been come back coming back from those quality control reviews have and they 're pretty strict reviews it seems , strictly in accordance with the book , strictly in accordance with all the reg rules and regulations and , so if one has deviated from those and it 's hardly surprising how very high standards B S five seven five O would have , be quite easy to obtain in most of our practice areas , so it 's hardly surprising that there will be occasions when we do n't actually er come up with ten out of ten on a on an assignment . |
| 27 | Erm if we overrun on Tuesday morning , then we have spare time in our programme for a week day . |
| 28 | Katia reappears , the phone ceases its bleeping , and we have cursory conversation about Mozart and two piano performance . |
| 29 | We have total control over everything from what designs we use , to actually selling them at gigs , ’ says Solowka . |
| 30 | But Peter Chegwyn , leader of the ruling Liberal Democrats , said : ‘ We have total confidence in him . ’ |