Example sentences of "we have [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether we 're bad or not so bad , whether we think we have gone beyond the pale or whether we think we 're better than the other person , we all need a saviour because we 're all sinners . |
| 2 | So it , it was , I suppose we have to say in the past tense , it was , the National Anthem of Czechoslovakia . |
| 3 | We have to control for the other ways in which they might vary . |
| 4 | It 's an anomaly that a ) we want the parabear to descend safely and not too far distant , while b ) we have to rely on a fair breeze to elevate the lifting kite and carry the droppable load . |
| 5 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of this debate , the fact remains that we do not live in a perfect world and , like it or not , we have to rely on a large amount of data derived from animals . |
| 6 | We have to rely on the occasional incident of this kind occurring naturally , and study that . |
| 7 | It is certainly my hope that this is the last time we have heard of a Denning-type investigation . |
| 8 | But we have heard of no other wife . |
| 9 | The Bitter Cry was a vitriolic , moving and widely publicized polemic against the ‘ pestilential human rookeries … where tens of thousands are crowded together amidst horrors which call to mind what we have heard of the middle passage of the slave-ship ’ . |
| 10 | In the last couple of weeks we have heard about the tragic death of Sergeant Alan King and Detective Constable Jim Morrison and we have seen the terrible injuries inflicted on their colleagues . |
| 11 | We have heard throughout the past year from one Labour Member after another about how their areas of spending have a high priority . |
| 12 | We have heard in the past week of places where there is no peace ; in Iraq , in South Africa , in our own country with sectarian killings in Ulster , and on the borders of Israel and the Lebanon . |
| 13 | Sadly , a whole generation of political leaders — and even some of their successors today , if what we have heard in the past two days is right — have failed to face up to that fact . |
| 14 | There is a distinct difference as we will detail ; but for the moment we have to return to the basic check for symmetry . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the existence of such divisions does not mean that we have to talk of a multi-party system ; rather , it seems better to talk of two parties , both representing a broad spectrum of political viewpoints which nevertheless remain recognisable as either Whig or Tory . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've talked to the good guys , now we have to talk to the bad guys . |
| 17 | But by looking back at the archaic phase of Greek history and forward to later autocrats , as we have done with the Sicilian tyrants , we can remind ourselves that the democratic interludes of Greek history were not merely short but untypical — in Syracuse , Macedon , Cyrene and satrapal Asia Minor one-man rule was normal for much of the period 479–323 BC . |
| 18 | ‘ What we have done over the past two years is to improve on our ability to retain the ball in contact , to drive very successfully as units ( as the All Blacks found to their cost in Lille ) and to deep those drives going . |
| 19 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 20 | Mike can probably come in teen care , but essentially what we have done in the current year , is sell places on teen care where we have needed the income in order to balance our books , . |
| 21 | We intend to reinforce the courts , as we have done in the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , by sustaining their powers to sentence convicted sex offenders to life imprisonment . |
| 22 | We may need some conceptualization , some image , some words , if we are to speak of God ; but scarcely a picture of the universe and a history of humankind such as we have inherited in the Christian creeds . |
| 23 | We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears , through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo , to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy , which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe . |
| 24 | I mean th , the amount of time we have to sit in the blasted garden anyway is er nothing in n it ? |
| 25 | We have seen since the early 1980s appeals to the family , attacks on the ‘ moaning Minnies ’ and ‘ whingers ’ who can not make it , and counteractions to permissiveness . |
| 26 | As we have seen in a previous chapter , he argued that such an illusory growth could in fact mask a real decline in values and use-values . |
| 27 | If there is an overcrowding of the scope of the curriculum , however , it is more than matched , as we have seen in the primary illustrations , by the prospective assessment system . |
| 28 | As we have seen in the preceding chapters , language development gives rise to a complex set of interrelated abilities . |
| 29 | As we have seen in the preceding chapter , some of these controls have overtly political agendas . |
| 30 | We have seen in the preliminary work that some , perhaps superficial , differences in procedures have been observed to distinguish between the ( again perhaps superficial ) differences of the ways in which these particular teams are organized . |