Example sentences of "we have a [adj] view [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the top we had a wide view of the valley with its bands of colour : the blue of the river dotted with white sails , the green fields on either side , and the enclosing tan-coloured deserts . |
| 2 | Once again Benjamin used his warrant , pushing his way through the grumbling spectators until we had a good view of both the execution scene and Smithfield Common . |
| 3 | We were sat in the North Bank ( could n't get tickets for the Leeds end ) , and in the second half we had a good view of the amount of space that the Arsenal forwards were getting , it was unbelievable . |
| 4 | We had a good view of Sao Paulo as we flew over it — so massive , it looks bigger than New York , and you can almost see it grow as you watch it , because all round the outskirts of the city are straggling half-finished ‘ shanty town housing estates ’ , with dirt roads and little hut-like dwellings , as it seemed from the air . |
| 5 | Moraine boulders were piled in rounded heaps and we walked inland through tufted heaps of tussac grass , climbing well up the scree-covered slopes to picnic in a spot where we had a magnificent view of the Strait and the channels and islands further west . |
| 6 | Well it , it , it , it 's moving a bit in that direction , I mean I knew what their prediction was cos they kindly supplied it to me , which is why I made the point , but I mean as as you know from our proof we have a higher view of the demographic requirements in York even than that , for reasons that were amply discussed in general on on day one , to do with vacant dwellings , mortality , and I think still probably a difference in migration between us on York , which is statistical rather than environmental , but I think it is important to have that established early on that that even in the County Council 's view , and with their , as it were , doubts about the statistics which they themselves use , that er there is more need generated in York , however much it is , than York itself can accommodate , and that is of course without York city 's seven hundred addition for reducing concealed and sharing households which is not in the County Council 's figures . |
| 7 | I am pleased that we have a joint view on so many matters of such importance . |