Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We have said goodbye to a person who can not be replaced and the rest of us will have to work the harder and care the more in order to try to fill the gap left by his passing .
2 We have said goodbye to two cleaners from the Cornard site during the last few months — both of whom passed retirement age many moons ago !
3 This of course means that we have said farewell to who operated the weighbridge for almost five years .
4 Managing director of the family-run firm , Owen Patterson , said : ‘ We are looking at rationalising the workforce but it is not fair to talk about numbers until we have completed discussions with unions .
5 It requires all people to be involved in a ceasefire and a total cessation of hostilities if the aid that we are willing to send — we have sent £8 million to Somalia since early last year — is to get to the people who desperately need it .
6 We have sent letters to everyone we believe has been in contact with the doctor but if anyone else feels they would like to have a test to put their mind at rest they should contact us . ’
7 In turn under the leadership of QC and QC we have sent delegations to the Baltic States , Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania ( at their request , we hasten to add ) , and have assisted in the setting up of a new bilateral organisation called BELLA ( British Law Association for Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania ) .
8 We have compared NIPPV with conventional treatment in patients admitted to hospital with ventilatory failure due to acute exacerbations of COAD .
9 Using the P-postlabelling method with butanol extraction as an enhancement procedure we have compared adduct levels in a group of patients who have had either a previous truncal vagotomy and drainage where bile reflux might be expected or a previous highly selective vagotomy where bile reflux is less common .
10 As far as emotional state is concerned we have compared respondents ' answers between first and second assessments to the following questions :
11 We have devised methods for predicting such curves from a knowledge of two functions : the magnitude of bias in the preference for one cultural choice ( such as incest ) versus another ( outbreeding ) , and the degree to which the expressed preference of the remainder of the group affects the magnitude of the individual bias .
12 The project has run to schedule throughout and we have maintained volumes , thanks to the co-operation of everyone in the mill who have accepted enormous changes in working practices and got to grips with the new system quickly and competently — its ultimate success will be a tribute to them all .
13 It is significant that these allegations are only now being made after we have beaten England in a Test series .
14 Julian Rivers , marketing director of Dillons , said : ‘ We have supported Childline in the past and were so impressed that we wanted to help again . ’
15 We have supported farmers and rural enterprise through features and our Small Rural Business Award and independent food shops competition .
16 WE have replaced vacuity with vanity .
17 Led by some bishops , we have replaced spirituality with an amorphous concern for the material needs of others .
18 c ; at the critical concentration is related to the chain length of the polymer by equation ( 8.46 ) , and substitution in ( 8.52 ) leads to where now we have replaced r with the equivalent degree of polymerization χ n .
19 Even where we have overcome difficulties of technology and resources , as , for example , in producing multi-media stacks using Apple 's HyperCard ( or SuperCard ) , there is market resistance to purchasing what might otherwise come as public domain or ‘ shareware ’ and little that can be done to prevent illegal copying and resulting saturation of a limited market before costs are recovered .
20 We have integrated aerodynamics theory with comparative data on sexual dimorphism in tail length to evaluate the flight costs of different forms of tail elongation .
21 We have sheltered accommodation , with understanding professional staff , for blind men and women who are unable to look after themselves .
22 We have endured hardship in order to provide continuous feedback .
23 We have visited Hawkesbury Junction twice now , once in November when we caught 256 zander and in December we removed just 14 .
24 As President , it has been a privilege to serve the membership and I have enjoyed , immensely , the hospitality and courtesy extended to my wife , Elizabeth , and myself as we have visited branches .
25 However , since in auditory word recognition we hear the different sounds of a word in sequence , it is possible to make use of contextual information after we have heard part of the word — in which case such information can be used effectively .
26 But out here we have searched and looked and listened — and we have heard things .
27 We have heard cases of players being offered £5,000 to change clubs .
28 We have heard echoes of Bush 's ‘ kinder gentler America ’ in the temper of the new Tory government .
29 For four weeks we have heard telecasters mutter about the margin of error .
30 We have heard evidence of arrangements being made for special services on Sundays in casual wards … every endeavour should be made to break the monotony of the casuals ’ Sunday by these and other means , such as visits by persons of goodwill ’ .
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