Example sentences of "[pron] we have at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his novel The Human Age , D. B. Wyndham Lewis postulates the theory that after death , as we stand on that other shore , at the gate of eternity , we will each one assume the shape and form which we had at the time when we best realised our essential selves . |
| 2 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 3 | The realist and the sceptic think of the world as one on which we have at best a tentative grasp . |
| 4 | These are the sorts of questions to which we have at least partial answers , and which I shall look at in this section . |
| 5 | It is not satisfactory to change a policy such as that which we have at the moment , and to have add-ons for the environment . |
| 6 | With the four prospective purchasers which we have at this stage it will be necessary to go through an elimination process , selecting one to proceed with and perhaps one to keep on hold . |
| 7 | At another moment in the novel , the narrator writes : ‘ The time which we have at our disposal each day is elastic . |
| 8 | But the major problem is that the sites which we have at the present moment are not controlled , and if we could get proper sites , properly managed , I think you would find that the whole erm picture of a gipsy site in an area would be much better received by the public than it is at the present . |
| 9 | erm , the thing about it is is that I mean , one of we we 've at the minute we 've been faced with with some individuals reckoning that they have er rashes forming around the face er in a number of areas and there 's an indication that , and it 's nothing more than that , that it could actually be to do with the laser printers and people sitting near them in the light . |
| 10 | Again , it 's a questin of matching the kit to the age of the child because some of them erm — the one we have at home , for example , plugs into the mains and although it only pushes out six or nine volts at the end the child actually does have to plug it in and , well I do n't think I 'd be happy if my six or seven year old was doing that , although my nine year old could cope with it quite happily . |
| 11 | Again , it 's a question of matching the kit to the age of the child because some of them erm — the one we have at home , for example , plugs into the mains and although it only pushes out six or nine volts at the end the child actually does have to plug it in and , well I do n't think I 'd be happy if my six or seven year old was doing that , although my nine year old could cope with it quite happily . |
| 12 | What we had at Maastricht was old hat ; it was living in a time warp . |
| 13 | Which is what we had at home in the manor ground , our squire was er |
| 14 | It 's better than what we had at Christmas |
| 15 | What we have at hand is therefore of major importance — the first complete recording ( running to four hours ! ) of one of Handel 's very greatest operas . |
| 16 | Going through that rigmarole would n't protect what we have at all . |
| 17 | So by some means we must devise solutions that produce at least what we have at present ; that is to say , the £27,000 million which the Inland Revenue collected by direct taxation . |
| 18 | And so it goes on through life ; always a struggle between wanting to hold on to what we have at the same time as we are reaching out for new joys and satisfactions ; always the dilemma of making choices , of greedily wanting everything , of resenting having to let anything go . |
| 19 | What we are looking to do here is to water down what we have at the moment . |
| 20 | No , it 's not a good idea at all , we should stick with what we have at the moment , the representation of people who opt to pay the political levy . |
| 21 | ‘ What we have at the moment is a situation where we discharge 17 million tons of wet sewage from vessels into the river each year . |
| 22 | Is n't this what we have at St. A. 's & St. G. 's in the very centre of the capital of Scotland , each May ? |
| 23 | And what the manifesto is , is trying to do is to er set an agenda for about how the lot of private homes can be improved , and er fixing rent is one thing which the government er traditionally has had a responsibility for and which needs , er must be linked in with conditions because what we have at the moment is a situation where you get , in Oxford , a er a family living in one room being charged er over two hundred pounds a week by an individual landlord , and that 's clearly unacceptable . |
| 24 | ‘ If that report is anywhere near accurate , they could knock anything we have at present clear out of the sky . |
| 25 | ‘ Kennet is a big man with plenty of pace and gives us something different to anything we have at the club . ’ |