Example sentences of "[subord] we have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During our journey we had been taken to Sherwood Forest , where we had a short while to look around and similarly at Chatsworth house . |
| 2 | It is difficult to relax with them , and even with each other , under such circumstances , perhaps especially in those ‘ social ’ events where we have a perfect right to do so , events which we ourselves have organized . |
| 3 | Where we have a different point of view is the point of view that says that a general education which will train the mind erm and expand capacity for judgement and so on , erm is perhaps more important than an exact knowledge of erm some particular political science theory . |
| 4 | As a Nottingham Member , my hon. Friend is justly proud of the higher education opportunities for his constituents in their own home city where we have a fine polytechnic and a magnificent university . |
| 5 | The majority of the truly narrative lines are found at the start of the Shipman 's Tale , where we have a careful introduction of the characters and setting of the tale . |
| 6 | pretty good in those days , two pounds a week which helped things out and er although we had a big family of eleven of us , including mum and dad , er contributi contr contributions from them where , well , whatever they could make , a shilling here and a shilling there . |
| 7 | As we also found earlier , it is far from easy to specify exactly what being an autonomous agent actually consists in , although we have a firm conception of a kind of ideal type — someone moved by the pure light of reason who ponders the evidence before them and makes considered , unconstrained decisions . |
| 8 | Although we have a joint account , he is the one who has taken it into overdraft and I do n't see why I should do as he suggests . |
| 9 | ‘ Kenny 's accent was very difficult to understand in those days — in fact it still is — so we had a simple arrangement . |
| 10 | I was proficient at my job , so we had a good relationship . |
| 11 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 12 | John was burgling and dealing at the same time , so we had a regular supply , like . |
| 13 | ‘ We were a little complacent so we had a fundamental audit carried out by external people . |
| 14 | When I first came to live here this room ran through to the back of the house , but my husband put up a partition , so we have a small room at the back where we can have our meals . |
| 15 | Many of us escape from that problem by redefining our experimental paradigms and phenomena as things worthy of study in their own right , so we have a psychological literature that abounds in studies of ‘ classical conditioning ’ , the ‘ serial position effect ’ , the ‘ lateral hypothalamic syndrome ’ , and ‘ risky-shift ’ . |
| 16 | The seating in our intimate in-the-round auditorium provides an excellent view from all angles , so we have a single price for all seats of £7.00 ( Mondays to Thursdays ) and £7.50 ( Fridays and Saturdays ) . |
| 17 | Once we had a little girl staying when Frost On Sunday was on and she asked Miles : ‘ Are there two Davids ? ’ |
| 18 | Cos we have a tremendous lot of NUPE members . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is essential that all parties remain in those negotiations and negotiate seriously until we have a satisfactory agreement and the end of this bitter and nasty conflict . ’ |
| 21 | unc Notice that the x 10 machine moves all the figures in the division problem up one place value until we have a whole number to divide by . |
| 22 | Now , let me say there 's one component of what Brian and Gerry have been saying , which I most passionately agree with as it happens — get that bit off my chest first — and that is that until we have a clear understanding of the mechanisms and processes of development , the processes whereby an egg turns into an adult , our theory of evolution will , indeed , be very imperfect , and we do not have such a theory , erm it 's exceedingly important that we should work on such a theory , and such a theory it is n't sufficient simply to say ‘ Oh well , there 's a genetic programme for development ’ and imagine that in other ways actually said something , because you actually have n't . |
| 23 | Underlining the absurdity of Ireland 's proportional representation system — and make no mistake about it , if we had a proportional system in Britain , it would n't be that nice Paddy Ashdown holding the balance of power , it would more likely be the Reverend Ian Paisley and a couple of Welsh Nationalists — the issue of whether or not Cable & Wireless Plc can buy a stake in Telecom Eireann could bring the coalition government down : Fianna Fail realises that in order to bring in outside investment into the debt-strapped state phone company and increase the lamentable penetration of just 31 phone lines per 100 people , there is little alternative to privatising the company outright or at least bringing an outside investor , but Dick Spring , deputy prime minister and leader of the Labour Party , minority partner in the coalition , issued a statement saying that any privatisation ‘ would represent a breach of the programme of government . ’ |
| 24 | If we had a regular bus service rather than a regular train service |
| 25 | A study of leading businesses shows that a vast majority of British firms believe that if we had a Labour Government there would be slower growth , less investment , higher inflation and worse unemployment . |
| 26 | I mean used to say quite often erm er I 'd flat I 'd erm show my pay packet against your 's any day if we had a good week . |
| 27 | Then we get , I know our dentist was very good , we 've always said that if we had a good dentist and a good doctors we 're on our holidays , and we have , we 've been lucky wherever we 've been |
| 28 | If we had a perfect world we 'd be all alright . |
| 29 | As the DCSL recalls , the IS coordinator defended the demands made on the local library on the grounds that : If we had a decent school library I would n't need to do it . |
| 30 | ‘ If we had a full-strength team , you can rest assured we would take some beating in the First Division . ’ |