Example sentences of "we [vb base] have a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The food we eat has a significant effect upon our mental agility .
2 Nutritionists and doctors agree that the food we eat has an enormous amount to do with the way we look and feel .
3 Planning , or at least mental preparation , is needed for this transition , whether we intend to have an active retirement , or just ‘ sit and do nothing ’ .
4 So we we we tend to have a different sort of , probably if you 'd , if you ask that question differently you would get a different percentage .
5 And I 'm sorry we appear to have a little bit of a problem with that tape , we have the wrong tape .
6 More obviously , in ( 7 ) , we appear to have an inside view of Mrs Moreen : " When Mrs Moreen bethought herself of this pretext … " .
7 We expect to have an important debate tomorrow afternoon on the 20 per cent .
8 We want to have a new South Africa .
9 The small shop area has to be completed and we hope to have a full range of items for sale in the near future .
10 Er eventually we hope to have a little Victorian style garden here cos this is a bit bare and uninviting .
11 But in our society the self-denial of which we speak has a moral dimension which is not strongly recognised in all civilisations .
12 We seem to have a labour party that treats education as some kind of middle class hobby that thinks of education spending as something spent only on the bourgeoisie , something to do with a university , something not really important for ordinary people .
13 But looking back , we seem to have a selective memory for the best bits of the past .
14 She sighed happily , then went on , ‘ We seem to have a prospective buyer and Liz is making frantic signals to me , so I 'd better go .
15 We seem to have a tremendous lot of seagulls do n't we ?
16 We seem to have a good time whenever we 're out and always have something to talk about , which is really great .
17 So in spite of it being a mid-turn switch , in this case we seem to have a different type of switch from the one in ( 6 ) , for the other parties to the conversation respond differently to it .
18 Now if our assets if by promoting the right to buy , by having capital receipts we seem to have a large balance building up , there is the distinct risk given the sort of policies that this government has pursued over time of a we will be running a risk there , we do n't know what they 're going to do , you do n't know what they 're going to do .
19 This demonstration illustrates a characteristic ambivalence of point of view in James 's writing : although one character is evidently the " centre of consciousness " , there are times when we seem to have an outside view of 110 him , or an inside view of another character .
20 The Conservatives believe that the government 's role is to ensure that we continue to have a good foundation of basic and strategic science on which industry can draw , to encourage a good supply of up-to-date and creative scientists , and to encourage the right climate for successful innovation .
21 It 's interesting to note that actually now we 've since made that decision the residual has as I 've said come down to nine four seven , so if we do have a new settlement of fourteen hundred we 're already ending up with a a higher level of proposed development for Greater York now , the nine seven would obviously be exceeded if we had a fourteen hundred new settlement within Greater York .
22 That 's the team of management that I , together with one or two others , built up from scratch at the beginning of the Liberal Democrats , and we now in Stockport have a highly successful erm m As I say , tier of management for training , for campaigning , for policy development in Stockport , and as you probably know we do have a good record of winning local council seats .
23 We do have a battery-powered TV but only see newspapers occasionally .
24 We do have a terrible problem for some reason , when you get to the end of a number , any number block , whether twenty , thirty , forty , and you get there was a big block there .
25 He must appreciate that we do have a mixed public-transport and roads programme .
26 I look forward to the day when we do have a regional tier of government , and erm , a very prominent local politician , not of my party , told me in confidence , that he believes that erm , there will be a regional tier of government sooner or later , if only to react to the pressures from Europe .
27 ‘ Michel laughed again and said , ‘ Well , we do have a great many men of ninety .
28 So what should we conclude about our own system on the well we do have a representative democracy here , it 's very unlike Mill 's recommended scheme .
29 Well if you have a bath in the morning we have we have we have If I 've got it here I have n't got one here , but we do have a refreshing shower gel .
30 We do have a rolled joint in a pocket of a jacket but neither Lucker or I acknowledge it .
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