Example sentences of "we shall have [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Some of them may involve social policies ; others may involve environmental policies on which we shall have to give ground during the next 10 , 15 or 20 years .
2 In the chapters which follow , we discuss the constructional meanings that they contribute to the language ; there are also one or two minor structures to be introduced later , and we shall have to take note of certain cases where apparently identical sequences of surface syntax correspond to different intensional patterns .
3 To revert to our example , we shall have to account for the fact that the predicate human , or rather the predicable " — is human " , unlike the predicable " — is a dragon " , has the capacity of being turned into a true proposition , and in order to do this , we shall have to make use of our original proposition , viz. that men do actually exist ( in the full-blooded sense of " exist " ) , and if so , nothing of any substance will have been accomplished by the attempted " reduction " .
4 If A claims the ownership of land by reason of B 's bequest or sale to him , this only raises the question , On what is B 's ownership based ? and ultimately we shall have to rest content with saying that the root of A's title is the possession of some predecessor , X. Such evidence , however , is not conclusive .
5 We shall have to introduce point charges , but let us be a little more general to begin with and assume that the charge is uniformly distributed within a sphere of radius r0 .
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