Example sentences of "we [vb mod] have the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When those goals are respected , we may have the opportunity to spend increasing amounts . |
| 2 | The garrison finally capitulated at 4 pm , enabling the Duke to write complacently : ‘ Now we may have the happiness to say that this part of the kingdom is clear of all the rebels . ’ |
| 3 | Generally , though we may have the background threat of Gomez 's South American violence or past humiliation ( Maisie Mountjoy brings back the music hall again ) , the late plays are too conventional to take us again immediately from London to Kinkanja . |
| 4 | We may have the world 's most boring aliens , but we do have corn circles , something no one else has got . |
| 5 | If we take Sheldrake 's ideas about morphogenetic fields seriously , we may have the suggestion of a hidden energy field actually underlying the formation of the landscape itself , giving it both form and character . |
| 6 | He screwed up his eyes and said , ‘ We should have the sun against us for a bit . |
| 7 | Well , we should have the guarantee still , there in the box there . |
| 8 | And if we 've been filled with the Holy Spirit , then we should have the evidence to go with it . |
| 9 | ‘ Andrea and myself , as a working-class woman and a Black woman , come from those groups , and feel we should have the chance to express our ideas as much as anyone else . ’ |
| 10 | As the first president of the faculty of community medicine ( now public health medicine ) his view on the role of the specialty remains pertinent — with ‘ specialists equally skilled in administration and epidemiology and with a broad view of social medicine and its research ’ we should have the chance of making the NHS more effective and efficient . |
| 11 | If there were no fixed costs , then we should have the output effect ( term in Eq . |
| 12 | ‘ Pappy , ’ Katherine began , ‘ Pappy , I think we should have the apartment done over . |
| 13 | Again , in our case it is an absolute requirement that we should have the support of the localities in which we place our factories . |
| 14 | The treaty will involve the transfer of extensive powers from Westminster and we should have the opportunity to vote freely on the issue . |
| 15 | If we did that , we would do away with all these debates about local taxation , whether we should have the rating system or another system such as the poll tax or the council tax , and we would have a system which , at the end of the day , would give the local people the opportunity to determine priorities . |
| 16 | We should have the result soon . ’ |
| 17 | Now we 'll see what the government does in response to er all their friends who are going bankrupt in the Lloyds er cos er that , in that scandal , on the one hand you 've got the government trying to save its neck with its forty four MPs who 've had their , had their hand in the till at the same that they 're doing that , they wo n't actually meet the just demands of people who 've worked all their lives to actually have some sort of security in the future , and that 's the ol er sort of double standards they 're gon na try and er and use to get off the hook on that one because they owe people in this country a decent , we should have the right to a decent pension and security , employment and er with this , this campaign , we should be , we should be concentrating on as a major issue for this union in the forthcoming year . |
| 18 | We should have the right not to join when the timetable date is reached in respect of the present European monetary union treaty . |
| 19 | I have no desire to rake over the past but we should have the right to refer to matters of historical record . |
| 20 | ‘ No responsible leader would press the button and we should have the courage to say so . ’ |
| 21 | At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution … |
| 22 | One way or another , though , we must have the scope to lighten our self-imposed burden of debt . |
| 23 | We must have the faith that vision can be developed in men just as creativity can be — it is trainable and represents only a higher evolutionary development and it is , therefore , open to all human beings . |
| 24 | The author Jeanette Winterson provides a maxim for female artists past and present when she says : ‘ We do n't want men to package us but we must have the freedom to describe ourselves ’ . |
| 25 | We must have the interchange . |
| 26 | Since we do understand what the sceptic is saying , we must have the sort of knowledge required for that understanding . |
| 27 | ‘ We must have the package delivered to the Air National Guard base at Trenton , New Jersey , no later than two p.m . ’ |
| 28 | We must have the caravan finished ! |
| 29 | But we must have the right to carry out our duty to impart the moral convictions , the moral teaching of our Church to our own members . |
| 30 | We 'll have the harness off him at Llanbadarn , and see to his hurts . |