Example sentences of "we [modal v] have [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may have problems in the Labour Party but we ai n't that barmy . ’ |
| 2 | We may have members who been unemployed longer than eighteen months . |
| 3 | For example , ‘ the weather forecast is n't good , it 's going to rain' could be repeated as ‘ I 've brought my umbrella with me because we may have showers . ’ |
| 4 | Notice , however , that although we may have views on the social class distribution of [ ta ; ] deletion ( it can be readily observed to be less common in middle-class Belfast English ) , social class is at this stage an external category . |
| 5 | As with the linguistic theories of how we understand ‘ bar ’ , we may have theories or models or whatever of our own walking but they may be wildly false . |
| 6 | We made two hundred and forty five pounds on Thriller of the Year one hundred and nineteen pounds on Tea for Two but that is after we 've made the three hundred pounds donation to Whiston Hospital we made a thousand and eighteen pounds on the panto Wuthering Heights we lost four hundred and nine pounds , but that was basically that we do costume plays and have to hire the erm fixtures and set pieces from Wrightsons or wherever we 're always going to be in this position and I think it 's the tradition of the Garrick that we continue to do them , and I think we have to accept that we may have losses in future on those particular erm things . |
| 7 | Actually we may have , we 've got one or two mashed up sets , we may have flaps for them , I du n no . |
| 8 | We ought to have laws which consider the animal as an animal and not just as something that we use in one of fifteen different ways . |
| 9 | and we should have systems whereby if you were |
| 10 | We should have answers before they 're allowed to fly again . |
| 11 | I think we should have chips , do n't you ? |
| 12 | It is obvious that we should have talks but I am not willing to be told that the talks can only take place at one location and I am not willing to accept an invitation to a slanging match . |
| 13 | Animal circuses should be closed , and we should have circuses with just people |
| 14 | Which ever way we look at it , its nature 's way of keeping us going , its , its what 's there to keep us surviving as a species , so its , its very clever , the , it worked , worked , nature worked it out very cleverly indeed that we should have this wonderful passion for someone and it should become love and then we should have children and then it becomes a , the whole cycle and that 's , that 's how it all goes . |
| 15 | The model is referred to as the ‘ grandmother cell ’ theory because it predicts that we should have populations of cells in our brains that fire only when we see our grandmothers . |
| 16 | They love the idea of saying , ’ We must have laws that say 48-hour working weeks , two years ' maternity leave and a minimum wage . ’ |
| 17 | Most definitely , we must have strawberries . |
| 18 | If we must have manuals then this is the one , for the author still goes into the wilds to revel in the ‘ painful delights of exquisite beauty . ’ |
| 19 | Of course we must have cartwheels and the maiden to whose lot it had fallen to perform this important feature of the dance so very neatly and prettily is recalled . |
| 20 | I mean the public is going to say we must have houses , we must have roads , must we have arts ? |
| 21 | I mean the public is going to say we must have houses , we must have roads , must we have arts ? |
| 22 | Land use officer Paul Wynne said : ‘ With such limited funds available we must have schemes that produce positive environmental benefits . |
| 23 | We must have things in common as a basis for a relationship . |
| 24 | That is why we must have complaints procedures that can be worked and really do work , why authorities must use their powers in the proper way and why we must have constant vigilance . |
| 25 | We must have schools staffed by people who are intellectually alert , who are able to change methodology and doctrine to meet the needs of today 's children . |
| 26 | But if we must have myths , the real facts about vampires could tell a different moral tale . |
| 27 | But afterwards , when he wakes — poor rogue , I would n't disturb him ! — we must have words with your songbird . ’ |
| 28 | So we 'll have repeats . |
| 29 | We 'll have reports live from the counts in Cheltenham and Swindon , plus reports from other key councils . |
| 30 | From 1st January , we 'll have countries in the European community allowed to send in as much imported goods as they like . |