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

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1 Nevertheless he points out that in Britain we appear to have industrial malaise , adversary politics and a society that is different in quality compared to other developed European countries .
2 For example , we expect to have two modes of b 2 symmetry , giving rise to two a-type bands in the IR spectrum of the gas .
3 On the contrary , they form the foundation blocks to all that follows , and serve as a constant reminder of the need to ensure that we are building on the right foundation and that the materials with which we build have spiritual survival capability ( 1 Cor.
4 If we want to have that freedom again — to stand out against the trend and , if necessary , to be on our own — then I pray that the Government will look hard at the question of retaining the right of a single foreign policy , with the decisions made by this country alone .
5 We want to have some degree of confidence in that er the parameters that we estimate right have remained relatively constant over our sample period .
6 Or we can if we like we can close the shutter at night at Summer nights , But in the Winter if we want to have some light , we open the shutter and put the fenestral back again , either way round it does n't really matter .
7 Why should anything we say have any validity ?
8 Might n't it be the case that those other bodies with which we seem to have personal relations of friendship , dislike etc. , actually have no mental states at all ; that there is no internal life , but only the external behaviour ?
9 We seem to have two layers , two levels .
10 We seem to have two kinds of ‘ existenceworthiness ’ : the dewdrop kind , which can be summed up as ‘ likely to come into existence but not very durable ’ ; and the rock kind , which can be summed up as ‘ not very likely to come into existence but likely to last for a long time once there ’ .
11 We seem to have some problem with that report .
12 In terms of er political views , or even those who have no political views , of ethnic make-up and everything of this kind and yet now it seems that at a time when our police forces above all , need to move into the present day and prepare themselves for the challenges of the crime and the criminals at the end of this century and into the next century , we seem to have some misgivings about giving the Home Secretary the powers which are placed in this Bill .
13 ‘ But we seem to have this thing in Wales about always knocking our best players and looking around to try to put forward rivals who are n't as good . ’
14 We happen to have this year ( she is leaving ) a lady who is a qualified teacher and a qualified librarian .
15 We like to have close working relationships with the leasing companies , ’ said Simon Diegan , finance director at HDS .
16 Notice there immediately , when we 're frightened we like to have other people around us .
17 What got me is , when we went out to this , this shopping mall , where we were , when we go to have this brunch , she was in .
18 We aim to have two people riding 24 hours a day for ten days , ’ he said .
19 We do have lockable tyre valves on this thing , do n't we ? ’
20 We do have traditional travelling people but we also have a lot of people these days who are dropping out of society and who do not want to stay put anywhere . ’
21 He admitted : ‘ Seve and I are different personalities but we do have one thing in common — we want to prove we are the best .
22 Do n't you think , Mr Vansitart , that the really nice thing about human beings is the notion we do have that things ought to be somehow fair — though nowhere in nature do we have evidence that God understands the concept at all .
23 We 've tried to keep our our support group also you know to go back sort of as loose as possible that we have n't great great format of a chair and a secretary and a treasurer although we do have that frame work because we 've discovered we also needed some sort of structure .
24 If we do have that belief , we do not suppose that the cause might have happened , given things as they were , without the effect .
25 No we do have cheap ones as well .
26 We do have similar backgrounds — both small-town girls , the products of happy marriages — and that may help .
27 Er now we 've got but we do have two products there of equal standing in terms of product er sorry of of erm salary potential
28 Fourth , structure ( 47 ) for the clausal adjective follows just the same general intensional pattern as will be needed for sentences which contain not an adjective but a ( non-finite ) verb phrase : ( 61 ) Leonard proved this theorem to rival the Nomination theorem in its scope Atkins will guarantee her picture to have fetched $100,000 at its last sale 4.7 It seems permissible to agree , in this case , that we do have good grounds for accepting that the adjectives are understood as part of a structure felt to be a clause , of which the preceding noun phrase would be the subject .
29 Noting that we do have many ideas and beliefs , he asks what is perhaps the most basic question of epistemology : ‘ How comes … [ the mind ] to be furnished ?
30 Well my view of that is that yes we do have new P P G seven which we did n't have at the time of the last structure plan alteration .
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