Example sentences of "we have [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not very enthusiastically , and not at all successfully either , so far as I can ascertain , we have begun doing a sexual thing with ourself . |
| 2 | As Frank Bell pointed out , ‘ Over the last twenty years we have strived to provide a Quality Service . |
| 3 | The pragmatic theories we have examined leave a number of unanswered questions , and they are in need of considerable extension before they can be fruitfully applied to discourse analysis and language teaching . |
| 4 | For March we have decided to have a members ' evening . |
| 5 | We have decided to produce a series of river surveys ( of which this , the Dulnain , is the first ) to formalize our collective knowledge and to whet the appetite of other less fortunate canoeists for our northeast Scotland rivers . |
| 6 | Many refugees come to see the medical doctor or the nurse not because they are really physically ill but because of emotional tensions — headaches and unidentified pains , So we have decided to prepare a number of simple pamphlets on mental health and related problems . |
| 7 | However , behind the tendencies we have charted lurks a more intractable problem , that of curriculum expertise . |
| 8 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 9 | Non-plussed , its director , Brian Jackson , said ‘ we have given Logitek a time limit to come to terms with their error . |
| 10 | Yet , against all odds , he continued , " we have managed to take a gigantic step forward " , and proceeded to enumerate the regime 's achievements in grandiose — and extremely vague — terms . |
| 11 | That has been the focus of this course and we hope we have managed to provide a framework for practice within which this can be achieved . |
| 12 | ‘ It has been a tough year all round but we have managed to complete a number of objectives and it is important that all employees continue to appreciate the value of environmental and health and safety issues . ’ |
| 13 | We have managed to get a fair way into this chapter on food and diet before mentioning that subject dear to a slimmer 's heart , the calorific value of food . |
| 14 | We have tried to create a centre which first meets the needs of the city , but which can also assume a national role . |
| 15 | We have tried to produce a series of conceptually coherent and professionally relevant books , each of which is concerned with ways in which children with varying levels of ability and motivation can be taught together . |
| 16 | ‘ We have tried to strike a balance between replacing what was there originally while looking to the future , ’ said curate , Fr Anthony O'Connor . |
| 17 | we 're not a society yet , so I mean thinking about that , we have tried to become a society before . |
| 18 | We have chosen to study a biologically relevant DNA sequence , the dodecamer CATGACGTCATG whose central hexamer corresponds to the CRE ( cyclic AMP responsive element ) binding site ( 12–13 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ We have got to take a wider view , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ We have got to do a great deal more about restrictions on motor vehicles and give the cities back to the people . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's a new situation that we have got to handle and , somehow , we have got to find a way of breaking out of this low growth , and trying to find a way of getting our economy going again . |
| 22 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 23 | In this report we have attempted to evaluate a major initiative in the promotion of curriculum-related library provision in secondary schools in one local authority . |
| 24 | It is difficult to be clear about what these might be , but we have attempted to sketch a vision of the future in our response to the UK National Sustainability Report . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , we have attempted to derive a better index of fetal adiposity than simple birth weight and have found it to have a significant bearing on results of regression analysis , suggesting that maternal glycaemia does have an impact on fetal size independent of maternal weight . |
| 26 | We have attempted to align a previously independent field of inquiry , cognitive and developmental psychology , with evolutionary biology and particularly sociobiology , and in so doing have constructed an ensemble of models that trace , at times clumsily and imperfectly , behavioural development from the genetic blueprint to the assembly of the nervous system to the learning process — and then back down to the alteration of gene frequencies by natural selection operating within the context of particular cultures . |
| 27 | We have to try to imagine a complex future in which different groups of the elderly will have different experiences from those of the present and from one another . |
| 28 | During the past year we have continued to play a full part for the UK government in the international research effort which pursues nuclear fusion as a long term energy option . |
| 29 | We have offered to play a part in an international effort to neutralise Iraq 's potential nuclear weapons capability . |
| 30 | We have had to spend a disproportionate amount of money on marketing and selling . ’ |