Example sentences of "we 've [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've struggled against a background of the Charter Review in the BBC to match ourselves to the changing needs of the audience . |
| 2 | Now quite clearly the new settlement erm when it , if and when it goes ahead will be outside erm the area of the green belt and which by definition is by and large the area of the Greater York er er study area , and I think in response to er Mr 's point , we 've accepted as a need for a er a minor amendment to the wording of policy H one to reflect that er that reality . |
| 3 | So we 've er we 've come to the front and we 've led from the front . |
| 4 | That 's something that we 've argued about a lot . |
| 5 | We 've landed on a star , it 's green and blue |
| 6 | It 's also the term we 've applied to the phenomenon which results in these disappearances . ’ |
| 7 | In terms of hard cash , we 've applied to the Community Council of Great Britain , and their Rural Action Project , and they 've promised us two thousand pounds as an actual funding , so as and when funding becomes available from councils or from private sector or from our own efforts , they match that pound for pound as we go along . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , we 've sailed with the company for several years now , have n't we , Dexter ? ’ |
| 9 | Well , almost , in this particular bay it 's fine , we know it 's a public beach , we 've checked on the map . |
| 10 | and what we 've done to the ozone layer , |
| 11 | As you know I 've er been holding a number of er small meetings with staff er and one of the questions I 've been asking is whether or not there has been a need for the building presentation that we 've done for a couple of years er and generally there was the view expressed that yes it was desirable but perhaps in a different format . |
| 12 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 13 | Well maybe they can like any other church was the an , or is , the Annual Church ge the Annual General Meeting and as John pointed out this morning of course , we look at what we 've done in the past . |
| 14 | But it 's what we 've done in the past . |
| 15 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 16 | Or rather , about how to try to tell it : since whether any such action of yours succeeds in doing what you want ( giving your tellee a true belief ) will depend as we 've seen on the truth of the beliefs which you also need in order to make you undertake that action . |
| 17 | Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days . |
| 18 | The thing I do n't like about this amendment is it actually moves us nowhere and we can not after what we 've seen over the summer , move nowhere . |
| 19 | I mean we , we clearly do not have a socialist society even at the end of land reform as we , as we 've seen in a sense we 've created a , a private enterprise system which is based on equalities within capitalism . |
| 20 | We 've seen in a number of areas , the development of regional net environmental networks , which we have been directly involved in helping develop . |
| 21 | We would want this to be seen logically , through approval of the structure plan , to be taken up in r in the relevant local plan , and for that relevant local plan to then sort out competing claims from prospective developments , in mu in much the same sort of exercise as we 've seen in the structure plan but obviously in a more detailed way . |
| 22 | Now I think that the concern that erm I have , and it 's shared by colleagues I have to say at both County and at er District Council level , is that none of those will really fully provide a proper strategic planning service and therefore the , the , the threat to proper forward planning of a coordinated nature across a wider area of land such as is er currently taking place in Sussex , West Sussex and other counties and which is desperately needed as we 've seen in the context of the flooding that we 've just been talking about , that is in er great danger of being undermined and the alternatives that the government is , is putting forward would in my view not go anywhere at all towards meeting the needs of strategic planning . |
| 23 | Erm , sir , I want to address the point , if it 's the right time about the level of housing provision the Greater York area in particular , erm that we 've seen round the table here that we have special circumstances applying to York , and to its surrounding area . |
| 24 | We often get to bed very , very late at night because we 've met with the host record company of whatever country we are in . |
| 25 | .. I do n't know what this is founded in , but I believe that there must be some kind of basic system of balance , where everything 's weighed up and when all the pain we 've created in the world gets salved because we live again . |
| 26 | But this is about four or five years ago so I mean it 's n we 've moved on a lot since then . |
| 27 | Something tied up , something in there as a heading so every member of staff knows that at such and such a time they are working on a heading of environmental awareness I would like us to have a precis of what that 's gon na involve but , I sha n't worry if we have n't got that we 've moved on a step |
| 28 | ‘ We 've moved through the hole in time . |
| 29 | We 've lived in the city all our lives and we do n't want to be buried in the country , however nice the house . |
| 30 | So we 're using all the money we 've ploughed into the business to expand . |