Example sentences of "we have [be] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If we had , if we 'd been a bit more rigorous with our criteria , our group would have got smaller .
2 She told me she was sorry we were going , and we 'd been a credit to the school .
3 We if we 'd been a minute later we 'd have
4 In the last fifteen years we 've been a country where law had little to do with Labour relations .
5 We 've been a bit lucky because , although our ball is in high rough — and I mean high ; it was up to Greg 's knees — we 've caught a good lie , so he can hit a pitching-wedge back on to the fairway .
6 We 've been a bit short of cash for developing it , ’ said Bruce Rannie .
7 We 've been a leader in space communications and space vehicles .
8 In the Telegraph they 've got all the things we 've been a lot of them
9 We 've been a team for ever , and they 'll say things like , ‘ If we 're no going to learn a lot more about this character , why do we have so much about him in the beginning ? ’
10 Yes , we 've been the channels , been been right through to street lighting itself
11 And we ourselves became different people from those we had been a minute ago , when we were teasing Filimon the goat or getting into a fight with Pechonkin 's street gang .
12 We had been a nation that had gone downhill , but that has been reversed . ’
13 Here what we had was a case of the supreme court , well I 'll say more about this later , but the supreme court declaring segregation by race to be unconstitutional and requiring that these decisions be recognized and enforced by relevant authorities .
14 S. S. The only bit of crowd trouble we had was the Catholics on the north side of the division and the Orangemen on the south side ; when the 12th of July was approaching there used to be a bit of trouble .
15 We need to do more work at grass-roots level — possibly , we have been a bit lazy in that respect . ’
16 With all the new techniques now available , such as twenty-four hour trading and the global marketing of securities , we have been a bit slow to adapt to changes that are now going to be permanent .
17 ‘ I just felt , ’ she said , ‘ since Donald had that terrible thing happen to him , we have been a bit closer .
18 ‘ Perhaps we have been a bit unfair on John Byrne recently we expect him to keep scoring goals all the time .
19 Vice chancellor Oliver Coulthard said : ‘ For the past decade , we have been a university in all but name but we were not accepted into the premier league .
20 We have been a college of technology in everything but name ’ .
21 We have been a nation state for a very long time .
22 For six years now , we have been a dominion in a commonwealth of dominated countries — ’ Two more policemen appeared .
23 He ended his presentation of forty-five minutes precisely , with the words , ‘ We have been the number one in the United States for many years , now we aim to be the number one in Europe , in South America , the Middle East … . ’
24 Now the trouble is that we have been the victim of those successes .
25 ‘ We believe we have been the victims of a substantial fraud , ’ said the army 's legal and parliamentary secretary , Capt Peter Smith .
26 Instead , what we have is a mess .
27 What we have is a database with a much freer format underneath and a spreadsheet on top .
28 We we do that in terms of of of capital control for Translink and Computer Services , and it 's interesting to note that we do n't class as a debt free authority , so what we have is a number of scare stories from Vincent over there , which is irresponsible .
29 All we have is a process of trial and error which , essentially , consists in seeing how well a particular indicator correlates with other indicators of the same concept and with other indicators of concepts presumed to be related in some causal connection .
30 All we have is a difference in the referential relations between linguistic expressions and the world outside language .
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