Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have said goodbye to a person who can not be replaced and the rest of us will have to work the harder and care the more in order to try to fill the gap left by his passing . |
| 2 | We have said goodbye to two cleaners from the Cornard site during the last few months — both of whom passed retirement age many moons ago ! |
| 3 | This of course means that we have said farewell to who operated the weighbridge for almost five years . |
| 4 | ‘ We have sent letters to everyone we believe has been in contact with the doctor but if anyone else feels they would like to have a test to put their mind at rest they should contact us . ’ |
| 5 | In turn under the leadership of QC and QC we have sent delegations to the Baltic States , Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania ( at their request , we hasten to add ) , and have assisted in the setting up of a new bilateral organisation called BELLA ( British Law Association for Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania ) . |
| 6 | said : ‘ I am delighted that it is now up and running and I am confident we have done justice to the concept . ’ |
| 7 | I wish to be relatively uncontroversial about these definitions , although I realise the great philosophical problems involved in any description of I for instance.3 The indexical meaning is that which exists when we have ascribed referents to those discourse elements suggested by the symbolic meaning of a term . |
| 8 | In this chapter we have examined approaches to planning and decision making . |
| 9 | Christou now appeals by leave of the full court after refusal by the single judge and we have granted leave to Wright . |
| 10 | We have made visits to actuarial societies in every corner of the globe and received many overseas visitors and we were struck by the similarity of the issues we face . |
| 11 | ‘ We have made offers to them which we believe go beyond our legal responsibilities , ’ he said . |
| 12 | It 's true we have made changes to our diet since the National Advisory Committee on Nutritional Information ( NACNE ) report in 1983 which blew the whistle on the state of the British diet . |
| 13 | We have made submissions to the Commission with our views on proposed life assurance and pensions directives and we have had successful meetings with representatives of the Commission on the issued raised in both these areas . |
| 14 | That is one good reason why we have been supporting several non-governmental projects in the region and why we have made representations to presidents and other leaders about the state of children in those countries . |
| 15 | Secretary Gordon Dixon explained : ‘ Over the past few years we have given cheques to various charities including Childen in Need and this year it was decided to send the proceeds of our charity drive to the Darlington and District Hospice . |
| 16 | We have given asylum to political refugees over many centuries : the Huguenots , the Jews from eastern Europe and Russia at the turn of the century , continental Europeans during the last war — including my father — and many others . |
| 17 | We have given advice to Departments on drawing up environmental housekeeping strategies for themselves — another first which every Department must complete by the end of 1992 . |
| 18 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 19 | A spokesman for the local council 's education committee said : ‘ We have issued guidelines to schools on equal opportunities with regard to their legal obligations . |
| 20 | But we have encouraged Republicans to be active in it , always accepting the directives of the CR [ civil rights ] committees . |
| 21 | To test this , we computed our equations on sales between 1980 and 1990 , thus excluding 1991 ; also , to make our life more comparable to that of experts who see the drawing before estimating its value , we have awarded marks to the drawings reproduced in the catalogues , classifying them as outstanding , good or fair . |
| 22 | because of our fears over water supplies , we have reduced abstraction to less than two thirds of our licence during the last 2 years , but we can not get away from the fact that this is a severe drought which affects every underground source . |
| 23 | Prognostic statements on the clinical complications of colonisation by the epidemic strain in individual patients are difficult , but we have found survival to be influenced by poor pulmonary status of the patient at the time of acquisition . |
| 24 | in the explanatory memorandum of alteration number three , which say we have had regard to the regeneration needs of West Yorkshire ? |
| 25 | Again , we have paid lip-service to this for a long time , but it has not been an easy ideal to achieve . |