Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's nothing we have to say to each other , ’ she protested with irritation , ‘ and I 'm not in the mood for any more of your accusations . |
| 2 | ‘ What can he imagine we have to say to each other ? ’ |
| 3 | In order to show that there are differences in language , therefore , we have to listen to many hours of tape-recorded speech , select variables that we believe may pattern in some way , and quantify . |
| 4 | We have to listen to these views as well as to those who complain . |
| 5 | We have to listen to these views as well as to the views of those who have reservations . |
| 6 | We have to rely on other resources , such as the network of informers that we have built up within the trade . |
| 7 | If there are no explicit statements in the text itself about its date of composition , we have to rely on indirect evidence , such as the assumptions of the writer . |
| 8 | In the real world … we have to rely on momentary impressions , third-party reports , interpretations of expressions and remarks , letters , faces in the crowd , inferences based on knowledge of our own feelings , to understand others . |
| 9 | At present we have to rely on several sources of information , which sometimes overlap , and which definitely leave great gaps . |
| 10 | I think we have to remember at all times that we belong to a profession in which there can not be qualifications . |
| 11 | If we argue , nevertheless , that prestige models can still account for the trend to simplification and uniformity that we have revealed , we have to explain in this case why simplification should carry prestige . |
| 12 | If this year we have to stabilize in this way , do these things , then that 's not a bad achievement compared with what we set out with three months ago . |
| 13 | Even Mr Murray , who appeared on television to condemn Peking for its butchery , has since acknowledged that ‘ at the end of the day , we have to live with these guys . |
| 14 | It leaves us saying ‘ We do n't like this one but we like that one less ’ , so we have to opt for lesser evils . ’ |
| 15 | We have to see through this framework of thought for what it is : nothing short of academic ideology . |
| 16 | So , whatever we do in training the horse , we have to teach on both sides : what it learns for one side , it will not automatically accept for the other . |
| 17 | And so if we look at what was happening to income at that time , we find that the disposable income , meaning the amount of money we have to spend on other things after we 've bought essentials , that figure rose by only one and a half percent throughout this period . |
| 18 | The rules attached to the money the government is giving us tells use we have to spend on voluntary organisations and private care . |
| 19 | On the contrary , we have to assign to each level a peculiar time , relatively autonomous and hence relatively independent , even in its dependence , of the ‘ times ’ of the other levels … |
| 20 | If we are to plan , we have to plan with plannable instruments . |
| 21 | We do n't go to trades councils as individuals , we 're there as representatives of our individual trades unions , and we have to abide by those rules . |
| 22 | That 's not counting the damage to transformers and other equipment from the nests that escape our attention , or the fact that we have to deal with similar problems in Caithness and Shetland . ’ |
| 23 | We shall assume that , by definition , an adjective , which instantiates a property , can not be related to a noun phrase identifying an entity by the relation of equation , and we have to deal in predicative position only with the other intensional relation found in items following a form of to be , assignment of qualification . |
| 24 | So we have to move from old structures to new but the first new government of South Africa will be a compromise in itself because it will be a united government but it will inherit not a post-apartheid state as many academics and politicians tell us it will inherit a nil-apartheid state and that is a very big difference we still have to move to the post-apartheid situation which could take decades . |
| 25 | And salvation is not a long drawn out affair it 's not something we have to go through all sorts of processes to se , to finally achieve it , it 's there as God 's free gift waiting to be received . |
| 26 | Er , your officers have always , extremely cooperative in that way , and that they 're a particular group of officers , they do n't like to agree with everything that we say , and we have to go with robust discussions . |
| 27 | You realize , of course , that we have to go into these things — no details at this stage ; we can get them later from his bank and his lawyer ; just the overall picture . |
| 28 | We have to respond to these developments and it is being made clear now in public , that the Health and Safety Executive are giving every indication to employers that they are not going to rigorously enforce the law and indeed in the local authorities a leading figure there has said that they want to take a softly softly approach . |
| 29 | Erm sorry about this , but er it 's a sort of a chore we have to do at this stage . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , well , there are many things we have to do in this business that are distasteful . |