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 We returned to the Duke 's house in the forest , where we had an excellent dinner .
3 That day we walked from Glaramara to Castle Crags , where we had an excellent view over Derwent Water before crossing the valley to explore Grange Fell .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 UK students attend at Henley and other tutorial centres , overseas students are offered local workshops in countries where we have an Associate Institution .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Yes sir , the , you 'll recall that carrying out this re this particular review to finalise the er fire safety review and members have accepted the recommendations from that in which sought to ignore that although we have an limited number of specialists inspecting officers that we widened the remit of all employees in the Fire and Rescue Service so that all er operational fire fighters carried out some form of inspection , thereby producing a higher work output than before .
13 ‘ Kenny 's accent was very difficult to understand in those days — in fact it still is — so we had a simple arrangement .
14 I was proficient at my job , so we had a good relationship .
15 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 .
16 John was burgling and dealing at the same time , so we had a regular supply , like .
17 ‘ We were a little complacent so we had a fundamental audit carried out by external people .
18 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 .
19 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 ’ .
20 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 ) .
21 Once we had a little girl staying when Frost On Sunday was on and she asked Miles : ‘ Are there two Davids ? ’
22 Cos we have a tremendous lot of NUPE members .
23 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 .
24 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 . ’
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 ‘ There is no real benefit to Scotland in these figures and we will never be able to fund our health and education services properly until we have an independent government . ’
28 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 . ’
29 If we had a regular bus service rather than a regular train service
30 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 .
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