Example sentences of "we have a [adj] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor would we have a public image that clearly conveys the mixed nature of the organization : in early 1986 the name changed to Lesbian and Gay Switchboard which confirmed our status . |
| 2 | In view of the serious situation that my right hon. Friend has outlined and the excellent policies that he is introducing to deal with it , can we have a clear assurance that the Government will resist any proposals at the Maastricht discussions to transfer immigration control to Brussels or the European Economic Community ? |
| 3 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 4 | And each of the places er where we got the supply of tins , er we had a little van that went out to deliver the tins and we delighted as boys , going out , carrying the two tins er into the place . |
| 5 | It was vital to give the impression at any rate that I and my board colleagues were in control of affairs and that we had a clear strategy that somehow was going to restore our business to its former glory . |
| 6 | We had a fine dairy that we er er of stone shelves and and that kept cool when everything And it was good for weeks . |
| 7 | We have a political culture that is redolent with rad-ical , republican , democratic and generous opinions . |
| 8 | But we have a greater probability that we shall self-destruct . |
| 9 | In my retelling of the Divine Drama I have made use of primitive mythological ways of speaking because I do not believe that we have a better language that is available to us when it comes to understanding God 's revelation as story — as the great epic of salvation . |
| 10 | ‘ What we have been doing over the last few weekends is exercising our right to search someone if we have a reasonable belief that they are carrying a weapon , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 11 | The author 's stated intentions and blurb credentials — Guardian writer , PhD , founding member of a community centre for the unemployed in the northeast of England — could well influence the reading of Meridon , but at heart we have a popular blockbuster that breathes some life into its 18th-century setting , but whose worthy aims are submerged by the relentless conventions of a mass-market formula . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , this weighty tome does not go nearly far enough into this fascinating world of the interrelationships that ants have with the plants and other animals in their day-to-day business of running the world : Rather , we have a specialised symposium that concentrates on the largely negative aspects of viewing some of the world 's most fascinating species only as anthropogenic pests . |
| 13 | We have a big directory that we 've got to put all these |
| 14 | Often we have a confused feeling that we both need and resent them . |
| 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 | Our position is that we shall ensure that we have a nuclear deterrent that is available at all times for the protection of our country . |
| 17 | We have a clear resolution that it objects to the new settlement on the basis that it is not needed and can not be justified . |