Example sentences of "we can [adv] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | So we can not have a strategy for teacher development any more than a teacher can have a strategy for child development . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | said to me , ‘ We can not have a railway strike , it would be so disturbing to all of us ’ … |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We can now have a measure of capital employed ( net assets = 2,114m ) . |