Example sentences of "we have make [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We 'd made three or four visits to the area to look around before we finally moved down , but I had no real idea what was happening .
2 I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion
3 But we 've made sure that they do n't realise the extent of the injuries .
4 We 've made sure
5 first of all we 've made great strides in terms of pollution and in terms of engineering we 've made it much safer , and new road engineering makes driving more efficient .
6 After we 've made that hole in the top we 'll lift the fuselage high enough to drain most of the water from it . ’
7 We 've made that , that
8 We 've made all our horrible Indian food and that . ’
9 of course that is a point that we 've made all the way through , it 's not if nobody would bid , it 's if the franchising director was not satisfied with the quality or the long term viability of the bids he 'd received
10 We are still passionately committed to our work in Africa , where over the past years we 've made 282 grants in 29 countries in support of both long term development and emergency work .
11 We 've made excellent progress , have n't we ?
12 Oh we 've made these telephones !
13 I think at the time of the er , of the A G M , I said we were pleased by the prospects and in the current statement I say the outlook continues promising , but I do n't think at any point we 've made more of a forecast than that .
14 Investing for the future although , although we 've been keen to drive for cash er , we really wanted to , to use the benefit of having a strong balance sheet and so where investment has seemed sensible and sound , we 've made those investments , of course we 've put er , cash in the B Sky B er and we 've also invested further in the er Spanish group , the Recollectors Group taking our stake in expansion , adding some cash and getting a stake in the bigger bigger grouping .
15 Ca n't mend the roof , and it 's pouring water — we 've made soul-searching economies , and the Bank is still perfectly livid with us . "
16 You know , get our cut ’ — the word sliced through her mind like a blade of ice — ‘ from all the strikes we 've made this season .
17 ‘ And you know , do n't you , Jez , the best strike we 've made this season is you . ’
18 Now , you know , that is the sort of attitude we 've made this class thing .
19 ‘ They have n't found some of the performance capabilities that are expected from micro-kernels , ’ he says , adding that ‘ Solaris has a very modular kernel , and we 've made some of the micro-kernel mistakes already . ’
20 We 've made some progress , ’ Dougal pointed out .
21 Well , we 've made some progress in some areas , but not as much as I would 've liked , although I intend to keep working at it .
22 We 've made some progress towards establishing the criteria which we should set out in our policy , and the mechanisms needed to control that policy .
23 We 've made some water bridges in a clay which I have to put in the kiln on Monday , .
24 The second point I want to raise is the issue erm of the green belt , er which is er a constraint in Greater York erm we 've made significant progress in moving towards the statutory definition of the green belt , the green belt local plan has now completed erm its public enquiry , and a lot of the deliberations in Greater York have centred around the effect on of the green belt on development potential in Greater York , so that is a main issue , I think , in response to issues , the discussion of issues in Greater York .
25 In principle is er not opposed to this policy er as we 've made clear in our erm responses to the county provided that the wording is in our view right .
26 Now what I would like to say is that we 've made clear that we 're with certain very clear objectives in pushing forward , in saying that certain things had to be achieved and when I read the lilac piece of paper or whatever colour we want to call it .
27 Er I think in this context strength to strength is talking about market share , erm Frank er was saying how we 've made considerable gains in relation to the opposition and er such an extent that in fact er it had to join up with the er er er with the other financial newspaper , but Frank would you , would you like to add ?
28 We 've made interesting friends there and we like it .
29 ‘ I think we 've made enough of this day to satisfy even la Principessa .
30 We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness .
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