Example sentences of "[noun] we have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just to be on the safe side we had a long rope attached to the raft and tied round a tree on the bank so that if the Indians lost control the rope would pull it to a stop . |
| 2 | On Tuesday we had a first-class Budget , a Budget for recovery . |
| 3 | Sometimes when we project into the future we have a reasonable expectation , based on experience , of what will happen . |
| 4 | Okay you 're absolutely right er we did play that at the beginning of the programme we had a little trouble with our C D what happened there Stuart it went off the air did n't it ? |
| 5 | Turn turning then to just touch on the issues that I 've , we did n't cover yesterday for York , erm you 'll notice from our H One submission we have a slight difference of opinion with the County Council on the technical side of the er the calculation , we believe that the calculation , we believe that the calculation for York 's need rather than three three should be a four thousand figure , taking into account the the issue of concealed households and involuntary sharing . |
| 6 | According to the headteacher the intention was ‘ to give as many staff as possible a sense of responsibility of teaching and learning ’ , despite the fact that ‘ as in all schools we have a hierarchical structure of responsibilities ’ . |
| 7 | After lunch we have a quiet period before we begin any afternoon activities , this could involve any one of the following : 1 Walk 2 Visit a local park or the coast 3 Board games 4 Hairdresser 5 Nails manicured 6 Sing song 7 Musical entertainment 8 Dance 9 Reminiscence sessions and many more depending on the clients ' needs and capabilities . |
| 8 | On top of the alder we have a quilted maple veneer , joined down the middle — but it 's not your usual wafer-thin , cosmetic-reasons-only veneer , since it 's a good 2mm or 3mm thick and rather cleverly bent to follow the forearm chamfering on the front . |
| 9 | Via transposition we have a Modern Benoni . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Whilst the College was in recess we had a great deal of spare time . |
| 12 | Following on these movements we have a marked regression followed by the widespread transgressions , both in Europe and North America , of the late Llandovery and Wenlock . |
| 13 | At home we have an impressive library of books , carefully selected to give our children the widest possible view of life : black families , single fathers , working mothers , girls rescuing the western world single-handed and boys moping in corners because they long for a doll . |
| 14 | When we netted the other side of the wood we had a slight problem . |
| 15 | After touring the Cote Sauvage we had a perfect lunch in a crep erie : galettes — whole-wheat crepes made from sarazin ( black wheat ) — filled with ham or melted cheese and accompanied by foaming mugs of Breton cider ; then crisp lacy brown crepes with sugar and jam or chocolate sauce , which bore no resemblance to the limp pancakes served under that name in America . |
| 16 | In Hungarian PEN we have an uphill struggle to try to promote those Hungarian writers who are worth promoting , but so many of them travel badly in translation . |
| 17 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 18 | To meet these needs we have a wide range of plans which can be adapted to suit individual means and requirements . |
| 19 | If there is a lot of fat in our diet we have a high cholesterol level . |
| 20 | The RAF said : ‘ These days we have a different attitude to signs of stress and battle fatigue than they did , perhaps , in the two world wars . ’ |
| 21 | I always involve the local councillors because at the moment we have a running battle with them over the er repairs , because most of us live in council property in my particular Guild , and so we get involved and s you know what you 're going to do about these you know . |
| 22 | On the first evening we had a lively dinner for the temporary extended family , during which much enthusiastic talking and a fair amount of equally enthusiastic drinking took place . |
| 23 | For our November meeting we had a dual focus of interest . |
| 24 | In drama we have a great advantage over other subjects in that non-verbal language and narrative are at the centre of our work . |
| 25 | One thing we did discuss at committee but I think it ought to be put to the A G M we discussed the increase in the cost of er , admission erm we held our prices down for at least a couple of years we had a heavy outlay on cushions I do feel that erm we ought to put in to the meeting what we discussed at committee that be raised from two fifty and one twenty five to three pounds and two pounds for the concessions including students and erm the youngsters . |
| 26 | In coming years we have a unique opportunity to see mechanisms of social and political development at work . |
| 27 | At the height of his troubles we had a similar conversation … only the boot was on the other foot and I just used the same words back to him . |
| 28 | The end of the bath the toilets and the loo which is a little Elsan , we had to empty that , opposite us there was the door into the living room , the hearth of the living room we had an open fire and we . |
| 29 | In sense-perception we have a conscious awareness of material things around us , such as trees and stones , things which we can later represent to ourselves in memory and imagination . |
| 30 | We need pairs for the canoes and if you 're a no-show we have a disappointed guest . |