Example sentences of "we [vb mod] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although we may have a spiritual or mental knowledge of the pregnancy , the actual physical development of the baby in the womb has to lie beyond our conscious control . |
| 2 | ‘ We may have a mild winter , ’ she reminded him . |
| 3 | I do nt think we should get too complacent as we may have a genuine bad run and things are pretty tight in the top 10 at the moment , but then again I did say after the Oldham match that 4 more wins on the trot would see us averaging 2 points a game , which is statistically Championship form . |
| 4 | At the weekends , we are no longer constrained by the timetable of our weekdays and we may have a fuller social life in the evening . |
| 5 | We may have a genetic pre-disposition to cancer , but where or when it appears in our body is determined by a combination of factors . |
| 6 | We may have a theoretical reason for believing that the variable we are studying will require a particular transformation . |
| 7 | Well , we may have a few helpful hints . |
| 8 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 9 | Or this at least was the academic orthodoxy , and by examining this and subsequent debates we should have a clearer idea of the analytical tools which can be of help in understanding the changing nature of local politics in Britain . |
| 10 | It has often been argued that the House of Lords should be abolished and that we should have a unicameral system of Government . |
| 11 | We should have a good and straightforward mechanism for importing documents into our system and exporting documents from our system . |
| 12 | ‘ I think we should have a New Year 's Eve party of our own . |
| 13 | Eliot had arranged with me beforehand that we should have a private meeting , and meanwhile I sank myself into the communal life of the place . |
| 14 | Towards the river we should have a grand place ; on one side a handsome lofty range of public offices , and on the other side the beautiful river with stone quays , and Lambeth , which would no doubt gradually partake of the improvement . |
| 15 | I think we should have a healthier lifestyle . |
| 16 | We could actually remove the net list right , but I think we should have a net list for . |
| 17 | The House will remember that we had the effrontery to propose that we should have a property-based system founded largely on capital valuation and with legal liability falling on the householder alone . |
| 18 | The position that was presented by myself and my colleagues at the last er er er at the last last er last meeting was to indicate a higher level of fire cover within the Service that Councillor wanted and the Committees supported the view that we should have a higher level subject to further discussions of the fire of the fire . |
| 19 | It 's agreed that we should be looking at improving the standard in D risk areas etc etc etc etc but we should have a higher level of cover , not putting anybody into a suffering situation , quite the reverse that we would have an improved level of of cover within the County and the Chief Officer he 's said this time and time again . |
| 20 | A recollection of John Davies , the minister for Europe in Heath 's cabinet , indicated the mood , ‘ We were at home in Cheshire , and I said to my wife and children that we should have a nice time , because I deeply believed then that it was the last Christmas of its kind that we would enjoy . ’ , |
| 21 | I think we should have a 2nd referee next to a monitor in the stand . |
| 22 | ‘ I always meant that we should have a real start — a place of our own . |
| 23 | I thought we should have a little talk . ’ |
| 24 | Furthermore , we should have a shared understanding of the rules of discourse about such subjects . |
| 25 | We should have a detached preparedness for mystical states and no anxiety for them . |
| 26 | ‘ The only reason I ever played Les Pauls was because Keith was playing a Strat and I thought we should have a different look , but from about 1985 on I 've played Strats . |
| 27 | But on the question of competitive tendering I think mentioned by Mr which he says we should have a different attitude . |
| 28 | We should have a full house for Portsmouth which will come in more than handy . ’ |
| 29 | I make no secret of the fact that we should have a public legal system in Britain , funded by central Government through law centres . |
| 30 | The general effect of the plan would be , that towards the park we should have a beautiful range of public buildings . |