Example sentences of "[be] that we have " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I think the practicalities in the situation are that we have to face the fact that they are not going to behave impartially and you see we have a classic example in er the circumstances of our own situation as described by John . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ The strength of my country in recent years has been that we have had no coalition , just clear leadership , a clear majority and clear decisions . |
| 3 | The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition . |
| 4 | The other development officer predicted making considerable use of volunteers as well as paid carers : ‘ it may be that we have two types of carer , an informal unpaid visiting service , and then the regular paid carers ’ . |
| 5 | It may not be that we have become too sophisticated but that we are so confused we seek salvation even from out there . |
| 6 | It may be that we have upset someone and a rift exists . |
| 7 | In a letter to his congregation he said : ‘ It may be that we have no influence on those who plan and carry out murders in both parts of our community , but we can all help create a climate of opinion where they will be increasingly isolated and disowned . ’ |
| 8 | The hypothesis appears to be that we have inherited from our animal ancestors the habit of discrimination , but have added an additional criterion , namely the conscious calculation of relatedness , to the criteria of propinquity , and perhaps physical and biochemical similarity , used by animals . |
| 9 | I mean it may well be that we have in this country we have erm pretty much Mill 's system because MPs get paid relatively little bearing in mind what most of them could be getting elsewhere , so maybe we 've got something like Mill 's system but it strikes us as rather a bizarre suggestion that MPs should n't be paid to prevent adventurous and lower classes becoming MPs . |
| 10 | The problem will be that we have no great tacklers in the midfield without Batts . |
| 11 | If I had any criticism of our organisation it would be that we have a tendency to hide our light under a bushel . |
| 12 | I mean it may well be that we have to resort to some sort of er |
| 13 | Do you think it will always be that we have one ? |
| 14 | We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet . |
| 15 | I think it 's very much linked with the safeguard being that we have got the one year cushion of , of carry forwards sums there to meet any immediate problems within the year , and give ourselves breathing space to , to address those in the longer term . |
| 16 | If we go to an exhibition together we find that we like the same paintings ; so I think it 's that we have an empathy in our way of painting , in the whole attitude to painting . |
| 17 | None of this music for Lovers Made Men and The Vision of Delight has survived , but the earliest piece of Lanier 's that we have , ‘ Bring away this sacred tree ’ for the Earl of Somerset 's Wedding Masque ( 1613 ) , is close in style to Guedron 's recits ( cf. |
| 18 | The fact is that we have no option but to raise salaries . |
| 19 | The reason why we are embarrassed to admit this is that we have lived in an age when the self-sufficiency , the autonomy of poems has been elevated into dogma . |
| 20 | What is new is that we have moved from too few qualified nurses coming to work in the operating theatres , to not enough people entering nursing . |
| 21 | ‘ But one thing is that we have a meeting at 1pm at Nelson 's cottage . |
| 22 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 23 | The reason is that we have driven the 500SL , which in its most basic form , is actually fractionally cheaper than the fully loaded 300SL-24 . |
| 24 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 25 | Indeed , we make an effort not to use the phrase for a number of reasons , one of which is that we have been unable to figure out what it means ’ . |
| 26 | His reply is that we have no idea of material substance because matter is an impossibility and could not exist ; whereas , though we can have no sensory idea of spiritual substance , minds are not an impossibility and could exist . |
| 27 | One thing I can be certain of is that we have all been involved in rows , misunderstandings and quarrels . |
| 28 | ‘ I am afraid , Prime Minister , the answer is that we have to be more efficient than our European competitors . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ What Clarissa means is that we have n't — mercifully — heard you for ages . ’ |
| 30 | The fact is that we have entered here upon the theatre of the absurd , as well as the stage of the miraculous . |