Example sentences of "we have [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have built up a great deal of knowledge about the historical side of the palaces but that has not been presented to the public . ’ |
| 2 | Although he can not escape from the linearity of language ( see 7.2 , 7.5.3 ) , James does the next best thing , which is to fasten our attention initially on the most immediate feature of Pemberton 's predicament : his uncomfortable sense of indecision , and then to expatiate on it so that by the time we have threaded our way through two paragraphs , we have built up a sensitive grasp of the coexisting intricacies and ironies of that predicament ( the ironies will concern us in section C below ) . |
| 3 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
| 4 | We have carried out a structural and functional analysis on the human NF-L ( H-NF-L ) gene . |
| 5 | We have carried out a few water changes , but our water is still dark green . |
| 6 | We have set up a new company , Strategic Land Management Limited which will manage and add value to all longer term land within Wimpey Homes . |
| 7 | For example , we have set up a joint working party with Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise for this purpose . |
| 8 | But if we want to consider how life arose , we have to look back a further thousand million years beyond even the earliest micro-fossils , to a time when the earth was completely lifeless and still cooling after its birth . |
| 9 | I can not remember a previous time when we have bought back a former council house . |
| 10 | It means we have taken out a major supplier of cannabis in the south of England . ’ |
| 11 | ( I felt like telling him those bastards had aged me by years , but I suppose we have to keep up a brave face . ) |