Example sentences of "we [adv] have the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see we only had the one van , you s cos the one van was wanted to go to Wicken on a Saturday again . |
| 2 | ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs . |
| 3 | And when I was younger we had n't a binder , we just had the ordinary mower . |
| 4 | plants up and everything for our normal you know , rock nights , I mean we just have the wrought iron up and whatever , but |
| 5 | We already have the first stage of economic and monetary union — the exchange rate mechanism — and it is already doing great damage to Britain . |
| 6 | We already have the best Post Office in the European Community . |
| 7 | And they rang up , and they said were sending you a list of what we expect to be available in the way of food at Christmas because we always have the same thing . |
| 8 | But as you look at it nowadays you can see if they were going back to these days would we still have the same interest . |
| 9 | His comments were seized by Mr Blair , who said : ‘ In this region , we still have the highest level of unemployment than any other region in the country . ’ |
| 10 | The Salvadorean people are giving a lesson to the whole world , and especially to the North Americans , because even after almost three years of finding ourselves beset by the guerrilla , a total misgovernment by the PDC and a catastrophic foreign intervention , we still have the moral integrity " to continue protecting against such a calamity " , financed and encouraged in part by the leftist sectors which have infiltrated the North American government … |
| 11 | ‘ We still have the current chart stuff at competitive prices , but we 've also got 2,000 CDs and videos at less than £4.99 , ’ he says . |
| 12 | ‘ We still have the public health standards but for us to meet EC requirements we would really have to start afresh . |
| 13 | We not only have the male , patriarchal white apartheid system on our necks , we also have the white woman on our necks . |
| 14 | With essential oils we have not only the material substance of the oil with its therapeutic properties , we also have the ethereal aroma , which , according to psychic healers , influences not only the emotions , but also the spiritual aspect . |
| 15 | We probably have the best field operatives in the world . |
| 16 | We now have the toughest set of controls on animal experimentation in Europe , and the number of animals used in experiments has fallen steadily . |
| 17 | A succession of Conservative Home Secretaries have ensured that we now have the largest prison building programme this century , with nine prisons built and 4,000 places provided , and 12 new prisons on the way . |
| 18 | We now have the largest investment programme of capital investment in the national health service that we have ever had . |
| 19 | And we now have the final symbolism of Ross Perot , the white knight set to storm Washington , who has in the not-so-distant past said that it might be necessary to suspend the constitution and cordon off black neighbourhoods and place them under martial law . |
| 20 | Further , and hence We now have the embarrassing impossibility of a negative sum of squares and must conclude that method ( b ) is unsatisfactory for computer use even though it is the more practicable for hand calculation . |
| 21 | ‘ Prime Ministers always have to consider balance in the Cabinet — and at least we now have the same number of women as old Etonians in John Major 's team , ’ she said . |
| 22 | We often have the Apache Country and Western Group playing , which the old people enjoy . |
| 23 | We then have the composite view that an effect is necessitated by a causal circumstance and , furthermore , is related to a so-called sufficient condition in the way described , having to do with the usual background . |
| 24 | But , even if we are able to measure them , we then have the further problem of how we can distinguish their significance from the effects of normal maturation . |
| 25 | We must destroy them now , while we yet have the upper hand . |
| 26 | It is for this reason we currently have the ludicrous situation of two record fish lists , one run by the National Anglers Council , which is a record of fish that were claimed in accordance with a set of inflexible rules , and one that is run by the National Association of Specialist Anglers , whose record fish appear according to individual merit , this merit being judged by highly experienced specialist anglers who know a ‘ con ’ when they see one and who would reject a claim if there were any doubt as to its truth . |
| 27 | We certainly have the colonial history , our economy is very much a Third World economy and we 're in a massive debt situation . |
| 28 | But this full equilibrium position , at C , is inferior to the one at which inflation is zero and unemployment is equal to its natural rate , point B. This is clear from the fact that both have the same unemployment rate , but point C has a higher inflation rate ; it is also indicated by the fact that at point C the popularity of the government is lower than it is at point B. We therefore have the odd result that the position which is optimal , point B , is not feasible , whereas the position that is feasible is sub-optimal . |