Example sentences of "a [noun] we have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then that question was asked last night erm from one chap about sport versus the arts and I suppose to me it is a quality of life issue erm where do you start an and stop I mean you have a problem when you have a recession do n't you , where you say okay we i we are in a recession we have got limited resources we have to make decisions . |
| 2 | The Arts Centre 's spokeswoman said : ‘ This is not a decision we have taken lightly or gleefully . |
| 3 | I 'm glad to say it got a thorough sort of leathering in the Lords , and so I think it 's rather premature for him to say that by fixing a budget we have belighted the whole police service in Wiltshire , for the next er , eight or whatever number of years he said , I think that certainly is rather premature . |
| 4 | In the North Sea 's Central Field , CCG provide a complete hotel service on four units for Shell Expo , a contract we have held for over three years . |
| 5 | Well let's have a look we 've got er Second Schedule . |
| 6 | Yeah it 's sort of an L in shape of a O we 've got |
| 7 | We sometimes write down the stories and one summer with other children we put on a play we had adapted from a Russian folktale in Folktales of Many Lands . |
| 8 | A problem may arise as a result of a change we have made somewhere else . |
| 9 | They are the guiding fictions which we repeat to ourselves so often , and with such conviction , that we forget that they are simply themes in a script we have written , and act as if they were true . |
| 10 | The word workfare is a term we have imported from America , the America , where if you are unemployed , homeless , you 're a scrounger , a drop-out a no-good , something less than human . |
| 11 | Prior to erm Uruguay round negotiations , agriculture was always excluded from the negotiations right , whereas manufactured goods have been in there from the start , and as a result we 've seen a reduction in tariffs right , on manufactured goods that 's not to say that erm , protectionism on manufactured goods has fallen , it has in certain cases but not in all cases . |
| 12 | As a result we have received tremendous encouragement from the Australian people who have formed a new branch of the charity as a direct result of our photographs . |
| 13 | As a result we have seen a sharp fall in the numbers who sleep rough on our streets . |
| 14 | I want to let you know about a study we have initiated on the usual basis of ( almost ) nil funds — hence we ca n't offer you a lucrative contract ! |
| 15 | There is no guarantee that by singing the words of a hymn we have participated any more fully than by giving silent attention to someone else doing so . |
| 16 | Just a second we 've got ta re-arrange the furniture slightly here . |
| 17 | Power exists only if others recognize a capacity We have had some interesting examples over recent years of power being unceremoniously withdrawn from politicians . |
| 18 | ‘ What a mess we have made . ’ |
| 19 | You know er I ca n't think of a work we 've done now but er |
| 20 | Poor Mary , Charles 's daughter who was buried at Catherine Hill in 1779 , was to share a similar fate with many Titfords of the period — a fate we have seen before . |
| 21 | Slowly it became clear that what Labour had in mind was a circular we had sent out three months earlier to health authority chairmen for comment , entitled Co-operation between the NHS and the private sector at district level . |
| 22 | It 's a move we have practised so many times in training and I always send them over the bar . |
| 23 | The primary school survey expressed concern for the range of work , i.e. too much emphasis on the basics , and the lack of continuity ( a point we have noted already ) . |
| 24 | As a consequence we have had to revise some of the premium rates applying to various sections of your Policy . |
| 25 | Yesterday , to our consternation and when in fact we had cancelled other plans for the meeting , eight people arrived here at 2.00 pm for a meeting we had anticipated would commence at 11.30 am at the latest . |
| 26 | We rarely challenge a conclusion we have derived from experience . |
| 27 | Mr Peter Bonsall of the London Borough of Islington 's Parks Department , says , " This is a site we have fought hard to retain . |
| 28 | In a while we had drawn close enough to sight the planet itself — a slowly enlarging spot of brightness on the ceptor screens — by which time Posi had contacted the spaceport . |
| 29 | Wait a minute we 've got to light th before we start everybody 's to sing and when I cut the cake , the pink bit is decoration so you do n't eat the pink bit but you eat all the rest of it , alright ? |
| 30 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |