Example sentences of "[that] we have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm we 're pleased to announce that we 've appointed a new handyman |
| 2 | I think it 's fair to say that we 've gone a long , long way in Oxford to breaking down barriers with regard to the inspection priorities , and we are in a position within the city where we have nature of , if you like , technicians and staff that are doing jobs that in many other surrounding areas , and indeed throughout the country are the prerogative of E H O , and these include areas specified as high-risk by MAFF , and include a great bulk of all customer and consumer complaints . |
| 3 | Yes we did , we were talking about our General Election strategy and er we 've been planning some campaigning and training workshops and so on , and I can tell you that we 've selected a Green Party candidate for Oxford west for the General Election ; his name is Mike Woodin , and the process is going on to select someone for Oxford east , so there 's certainly going to be a strong Green presence in Oxford during the General Election . |
| 4 | I do n't know whether this is necessary but Caroline erm , but when we take on a new type of business which is n't covered by our current procedures erm , say electronic data collection or something , which up until then has been done on paper , that we ought to have some simple statement in a procedure about how we are going to er , ma , ensure that we 've got a new set of procedures to deal with that new type of , new system . |
| 5 | It does n't need me to say that we 've got a long way to go . |
| 6 | I am optimistic now that we 've got a stable base for the next year , and I 'm always optimistic for the year after ! |
| 7 | So is that , er , I mean , in the in the characterisation we 've got , is is there particular personalities coming through here , because I think that 's one of the other things we need to make sure in the script , that we 've got a consistent view of certain personalities . |
| 8 | And I reckon that we 've got a good chance beating Sheffield Wednesday at football . |
| 9 | It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years . |
| 10 | So that we 've got a running organization that can react to things , and indeed proact as well . |
| 11 | That 's the sort of thing I want , yeah , yeah , well I put on the form that we 've got a true Scot because that 'll be |
| 12 | It seems that we 've opened a real can of worms with these Dixon complaints . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't see so many people going in the opposite direction now , so I hope that 's a sign that we 've persuaded a few of them to stay in town and watch their local team . ’ |
| 14 | that we 've had a slight increase in the percentage of our employees , albeit that 's got to be seen against erm , er er a lower total of employees altogether . |
| 15 | But then again , we can say that we 've had a quiet week Saturday and Sunday , or from Friday till through till Monday morning , it can be packed out with people just visiting the blues . |
| 16 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 17 | ‘ That we 'd had a short but intense affair , and when we 'd met again and realised we still felt the same about each other you 'd revealed how Thomas was mine . ’ |
| 18 | It was on a trip to Frankfurt with a mixed load of several 2,000lb bombs and the varied load of experimental PFF flares and early target indicator devices ; Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful . |
| 19 | He explained that we had made a grave error — it was Saturday afternoon . |
| 20 | Very tired but excited that we had covered a third of our journey . |
| 21 | The readership survey confirmed our belief that we had created a high quality magazine , with many readers saying they found it attractive , colourful and easy to read . |
| 22 | All these questions were dealt with fully during the course , so Derek and I felt that we had learnt a great deal of new and fascinating information that we just could n't have got out of books . |
| 23 | One of them gesticulated to us and , using harsh , staccato Russian ( which neither of us understood ) and rather violent stabs into the air , made it very clear that we had taken a dangerous route over the ice and that we were very stupid indeed . |
| 24 | As before , he was concerned to hear that we had enjoyed a good flight to his native city , had found a good hotel and that we were managing to survive the bitter cold , the snow and the ice of a Canadian winter . |
| 25 | She was allowed to continue with her mending — she did not know that we had spread a thick layer of gum upon the chair and was surprised at the alacrity with which we saw to all her needs so that she should never move . |
| 26 | The low headroom on the staircase meant that we had to find a sensible height for the border by doing a ‘ dry ’ run without cutting any material from the roll ( an assistant is invaluable for this ) . |
| 27 | But as a result of suppressing these qualities , managers have ensured that we have built a low-wage , low-skilled workforce lacking in self-reliance and self-esteem . |
| 28 | The truth of the matter is that we have seen a substantial reduction in direct tax rates , a substantial improvement in standards of living and , as a result of the reduction in tax rates , an improvement in the tax base , which has enabled us not only to achieve increased public spending on a large scale in our key priority areas , especially health , but to achieve a reduction in direct income tax and , overall , considerably to improve our public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 29 | The letter continued : ’ The answers to your specific questions to the Minister , are , therefore , that we have seen a certain amount of information on the cost of the King 's Cross project ’ — we should like to know what that certain amount of information is — ’ and the projected revenues before giving consent to the deposit of the Bill . ’ |
| 30 | Some of us will believe that we have done a good job during that period . |