Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is just one illustration of the double standards that we have tolerated for generations that , for one and half centuries , the House has rightly imposed the strictest safety rules and regulations on the railways , while doing virtually nothing about the roads . |
| 2 | This is the first inhabited home we have seen for miles . |
| 3 | Those of us who make our own way there have little conception of the anxiety this may induce , unless , perhaps , we have waited for bedpans in hospital . |
| 4 | But all such categorizations are theory-dependent , and on the view that we have adopted for convenience , namely that pragmatics concerns those aspects of meaning and language-structure that can not be captured in a truth-conditional semantics , the grammatical category of deixis will probably be found to straddle the semantics/pragmatics border . |
| 5 | The four that we have , we have stocked for years . |
| 6 | We have assumed for simplicity that the public sector 's current spending of £5,000 million flows entirely into the industrial and commercial sector in return for goods and services . |
| 7 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 8 | Six patients remained in whom there was no apparent explanation for their DU disease and we have chosen for convenience to refer to these patients as having idiopathic DU . |
| 9 | The members ' status as residual claimants suggests that they have in fact the same interest in profit maximisation as we have postulated for society as a whole , and the incentive to enforce profit maximisation in both their own and the social interest . |
| 10 | We have known for years that there are many wrecks which could be of historical value , telling us about the way in which vessels were constructed and , from their contents , about how ordinary people lived in times past . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , yes , I must admit , ’ replies management , ‘ that I am making a good thing out of this , the best break we have had for years — you see , my methods of production are so cheap and efficient . ’ |
| 12 | After all , we have had for years Poor Man 's Lawyer sessions , political legal advice sessions , the legal aid scheme itself , and now , more recently , the neighbourhood law centres . |
| 13 | The position on the particular issue to which the hon. Gentleman refers is that for some years now we have pursued the same policy that the money has been , in the formula applied , additional and is reflected in higher public spending plans , and that it is for the Commissioner to honour the pledge that we have had for years past . |
| 14 | Wherever we have looked for savings , we have looked to trimming away at the centre and preserving those services that are delivered to the citizens in a direct way . |
| 15 | Traditionally , we have looked for causes of learning difficulty in the child . |
| 16 | The variable response to acute injury in such animals is reminiscent of the variability we have described for humans . |