Example sentences of "we have a problem " in BNC.

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1 We had a problem with the electrical place , Dixons erm over something rather different like that .
2 ‘ We thought it was stupid for him to fly all the way back to the UK and then find that we had a problem with Jones , ’ said Lions ' manager Geoff Cooke .
3 ‘ We thought it was stupid for him to fly all the way back to the UK and then find that we had a problem with Jones , ’ said Lions ' manager Geoff Cooke .
4 well we were considered to be fortunate that we did n't , we only had a small percentage that we had a problem with
5 because I thought you had to be in post this is what we had a problem with with Napier 's request for recognition
6 We have a problem because … .
7 If it 's not possible to buttonhole the parent in this way then a note in friendly terms saying that ‘ we have a problem and could we meet to discuss ways that the school may be able to help ? ’ is an approach that is likely to bring about a positive response .
8 There , subsequent measures take the same course of further expropriation of ‘ third persons ’ ; we have a problem of expropriation directed against the bourgeoisie and landowners , but the main further problem , which comrade Preobrazhensky discusses , is the problem of the small-scale producers , i.e. of another class ; there , further development takes place from the point of view of destruction , exclusion or , if you like , ‘ devouring ’ — here , from the point of view of ‘ getting along together ’ , ‘ re-educating ’ ‘ assimilating ’ and so on .
9 Immediately we get into dowsing for ‘ energy ’ , whether it be lines or points or spirals , we have a problem of tuning in to what we want to find .
10 We have a problem that a lot of youngsters such as ourselves can relate to .
11 She wants the marriage to survive , tearfully telling friends : ‘ Yes , we have a problem but hopefully we can come through it . ’
12 That 's fine in theory , but in reality we have a problem .
13 In attempting to combat ageist stereotyping , we have a problem .
14 All of us like to receive support from others when we have a problem , even if it is only talking things over with friends .
15 Immediately we have a problem : what form would the representation of an object take ?
16 Now , we have a problem concerning production methods . ’
17 Well the only thing we have a problem on ‘ Sonnet ’ with , Luke , so far as I can see anyway , and I know Jeff agrees with me on this — right Jeff ? — and so does Jim incidentally , Luke , ’ said Joe , ‘ is the form . ’
18 I do n't think we have a problem We 're not gon na not gon na have a problem with places getting asked twice .
19 But we have a problem of our own here , Hugh , and even if the earl is only diverting himself , be sure Herluin is not .
20 ‘ But ’ , he added , ‘ we have a problem . ’
21 But if replication needs complex machinery , since the only way we know for complex machinery ultimately to come into existence is cumulative selection , we have a problem .
22 Ironically , we have a problem with unemployment in the service sector in the south of England .
23 It is my understanding that , after 1993 , the personal allowances will have to be given to the individual , but we have a problem .
24 In our second example we have a problem .
25 On this particular problem it would be excellent if we could just go to the Black community and say ’ Hi brothers and sisters We have a problem with this outmoded ritual ’ And they would respond in this way ’ good , let us all drop it ’ .
26 We have a problem . ’
27 We have a problem .
28 We have , we have a problem , of course , erm , in finding the exact root of the problem , we could possibly
29 So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ?
30 Er rather than being erm over er at forty thousand , for that we are , are pleased that the extra erm people is in work , but nevertheless we still have this very high level and we have a problem given the restructuring of the economy , I 'd better shut up because my colleagues er Chris and Jane are going to talk about erm another closure intending closure and yet more redundancies again er , it happens in Hatfield .
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