Example sentences of "we have a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do get work from individuals , I said we have an open policy and people come through with problems that they 've got because they know us and some we take up , we try and be helpful and , and take up individual problems and then we have a two way relationship with community groups and last and not , not , not least , we , we live across the corridor from the General Manager and he 's always flying in and giving us work as well . |
| 2 | ‘ We are going to develop inducements and encouragements for a major expansion of research and development , because if we are going to rival our major competitors we have a long way to go in catching up with them . |
| 3 | We know from our informal discussions with politicians of all shades of opinion that we have a long way to go , but many have been sympathetic to our aims . |
| 4 | A Union of Democratic Forces spokesman , Mr Georgi Spassov , said : ‘ This demonstrates that we have a long way to go before we have true democracy in Bulgaria . ’ |
| 5 | The revolution that resulted in molecular biology enabled us to begin to understand many of the processes in the cell at the molecular level , although it must be stressed that we have a long way to go . |
| 6 | So it is clear we have a long way to go before we can store up all the experiences of humankind . |
| 7 | We have a long way to go before society really shifts in attitude , and both men and women assume that caring is not only a woman 's job . |
| 8 | ‘ We have a long way to go before we are able to record and translate accurately such imprints of ourselves left behind in the void of time . |
| 9 | The sponsorship money will be used to upgrade facilities at the Stoop Memorial Ground because , according to chairman Roger Looker , ‘ We recognise we have a long way to go towards what we consider to be adequate facilities , particularly if we sustain our growth ’ . |
| 10 | Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go . |
| 11 | This leads me to believe that the questions surrounding male/female relationships are not simple , and we have a long way to go before we can simply pursue the ‘ if only men would ’ formula . |
| 12 | ‘ We have somewhere between £22,000 and £23,000 in the bank and there is cash still to come in , but we have a long way to go . ’ |
| 13 | In an ideal world we would be recycling and re-using everything , but this is n't possible and we have a long way to go before we can turn all our waste into a resource . |
| 14 | Similarly , in the Philippine language Samal , we have a four way distinction based on four kinds of participant role : ( i ) close to speaker , ( ii ) close to addressee , ( iii ) close to audience ( other members of Conversational group ) , ( iv ) close to persons present but outside the COnversational group that consists of speaker , addressee(s) and audience . |
| 15 | Thus we have a precise way of establishing the validity of non-local effects in quantum phenomena . |
| 16 | If we have a principled way of discerning the stable sub-assemblies , thereby distinguishing them from merely arbitrary collections of parts , then we can as it were see the evolutionary pedigree of a complex structure . |
| 17 | Thus even if we accept that the duty of directors to act in the best interests of shareholders can be equated with a duty to maximize profits this does not provide us with any real assurance that the wishes of the shareholders are being executed by the directors or that we have a satisfactory way of controlling the discretion accorded to directors in the name of the Rule of Law . |