Example sentences of "we can [adv] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just be very brief , chair , erm could I ask that we have a report before council on this , and I know it will be an extra two hours on the poor council debate , but I think this is so important , and it does affect the planet for hundreds of years to come , and I think if we ca n't have a discussion on this in full council , well , it 's the most important thing we 've had for years probably , and I think we should have a discussion before council sit . |
| 2 | We ca n't have a conversation in the hallway , I walk him in backwards . |
| 3 | We ca n't have a scandal like this made public . |
| 4 | But we ca n't have a situation where people are picking and choosing , because everybody 'll want to do it . |
| 5 | We ca n't have a squeak in this room . |
| 6 | What 's so awful about this situation is that we ca n't have a funeral . |
| 7 | ‘ The cause of this violence is the state security services … they are using certain organisations as a smokescreen so we can not have a majority in an election , ’ Mr Mandela told supporters . |
| 8 | But until we have a system that allows properly resourced public access to organisations such as UKIAS , we can not have a system that precludes people from seeking independent legal advice from private firms of solicitors . |
| 9 | Yet we can not have a cut because interest rates are now set , not according to the needs of our domestic economy , but for the sole purpose of propping up the pound in its ERM band , thus prolonging the recession . |
| 10 | John Gummer , Secretary of State for Agriculture , said : ‘ We can not have a situation in which the consumer does not have absolute confidence in British eggs . |
| 11 | ‘ We can not have a situation where no more books are written , where no more scenarios of films are made , or more music is composed . |
| 12 | So we can not have a strategy for teacher development any more than a teacher can have a strategy for child development . |
| 13 | We can not have a Briton winning the US Masters for the first time again , nor a Briton putting the green jacket on yet another Briton for the first time again . |
| 14 | said to me , ‘ We can not have a railway strike , it would be so disturbing to all of us ’ … |
| 15 | Bill Ward , assistant director of the department of environment at county hall , said : ‘ We know very well about local objections and will look at the scheme again to see if there is any way we can still have a scheme whilst taking account of local feeling . ’ |
| 16 | erm I 'm not going to keep you very long because I 've nearly finished talking so erm when I 've finished perhaps you would like to bring some of your things up and put them on the table and we can all have a look at them . |
| 17 | We can now have a measure of capital employed ( net assets = 2,114m ) . |