Example sentences of "we have [prep] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries covered up the marble and we have to be grateful to renovations in 1904 for the fact that it is now visible again . |
| 2 | Sheldon himself never lied to his friends about the mummy and we have to be grateful to Faujas Saint-Fond for the following account written shortly after a visit he had made on Sheldon : ‘ It is [ said Sheldon ] a mistress whom I tenderly loved . |
| 3 | ‘ We have to be grateful to first-time buyers . |
| 4 | It is a sad day when we are grateful for not being abused in this house , but it 's about all we have to be thankful for until this wretched system is altered , root and branch . |
| 5 | We have to be cautious about growth rates in a relatively new industry . |
| 6 | John Kydd , sacked convenor at the plant , said : ‘ We have to be cautious about this news . |
| 7 | But he added ; ‘ If we have to be accountable for public money then so too should the Ministry of Defence . |
| 8 | Few examples of complete trilobites are known and for the most part we have to be content with the exterior skeleton . |
| 9 | This knowledge is unfortunately of little help in actually factorising f and in general we have to be content with approximation methods . |
| 10 | Instead of the clarity and precision of Newtonian mechanics , we have to be content with a more fuzzy account of affairs . |
| 11 | While I can see that the woman you wrote about may well have deserved what she got — your report says the little girl was badly bruised — I do think we have to be wary of going to extremes . |
| 12 | but at the same time I would want to afford er , you as heads of departments er er everybody 's heads of department a little bit of leeway what i what if , what wa wa we have to be careful about this that we set a standard but allow a little leeway because all departments are slightly different and want to approach things |
| 13 | ‘ I think this could corrupt , we have to be careful about what we have in our town . |
| 14 | ‘ We have to be careful about what we say here , ’ he said , eventually explaining ‘ I was asked to examine the situation ’ but not the children . |
| 15 | Now we have to be careful with the word ‘ redemptive ’ because in a final way only Christ 's sufferings can be deemed truly redemptive ; but I feel that we can make guarded use of the term . |
| 16 | They might , in some cases , indicate a facility of explicitness , but even here we have to be careful since what is or is not explicit is always relative . |
| 17 | When making erotic statements with clothes we have to be aware of existing stereotypes . |
| 18 | This , and not a fear of exaggeration , is the hazard we have to be aware of when interpreting the remarks of the people of St Ann 's about these housing conditions . |
| 19 | We have to be aware of this possibility and , if we find that we are being misunderstood , find another means of expressing ourselves . |
| 20 | It is important to realise , however , that what we have discussed in this chapter is relevant to the next chapter , since if we want to know how language is understood we have to be aware of the large number of different levels of processing which are involved . |
| 21 | We are apolitical although we have to be aware of the political impact our work can have in some areas . |
| 22 | Winning in the Nou Camp is the Portuguese champions ' only hope of reaching Wembley and their Swedish coach , Sven-Goran Eriksson , admits : ‘ We have to be exceptional in defence , totally committed to maximum discipline and concentration , and inspired in attack . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ With all our problems , we have to be happy with the situation . |
| 24 | ‘ With all our problems , we have to be happy with the situation . |
| 25 | One of the factors which must be taken into account is that we have to be responsive to changes in our scientific activities in order to provide the necessary Library support for them . |
| 26 | Whatever , or wherever , the opportunities , we have to be flexible in our business approach in order to increase our worldwide presence and market share . |
| 27 | While equally the white lesbian sister has got to understand that while she 's unified with this Asian lesbian sister there are differences , there are differences some of which are good and some of which are bad , and we have to be frank about them and to struggle around them because we ca n't just pretend that they do n't exist , then we 're not going to reach anywhere . |
| 28 | For one thing , we have to be smart at spotting new trends in feedstock usage , because this can make or break our profitability . |
| 29 | It is an embryonic concept in a fast-changing environment and we have to be realistic about the limits of our power to forecast or even speculate about its future . |