Example sentences of "we have [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remarks ( i ) If the reader feels we have gone to a lot of trouble to establish a result which is " obvious " we ask him on what grounds he bases his belief i this result ? |
| 2 | In the British system of local government finance , with the wonderful inimitable reforms of the present government , er we have gone from a situation in which er the central government financed about , between forty five and fifty percent of local expenditure to a situation where the central government finances about eighty five percent , I think between eighty five and ninety percent of local spending . |
| 3 | my Lord we have said in a number of places the claims are erm unlawful and we refer to the fact that the claims come out of the central fund bi-law |
| 4 | ‘ We have sent for a doctor . |
| 5 | It 's an anomaly that a ) we want the parabear to descend safely and not too far distant , while b ) we have to rely on a fair breeze to elevate the lifting kite and carry the droppable load . |
| 6 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of this debate , the fact remains that we do not live in a perfect world and , like it or not , we have to rely on a large amount of data derived from animals . |
| 7 | For example , in at least one rural area , we have heard of a tendency for professional people to send their children to the nearby town or another village school if they feel their own village school is unsatisfactory . ’ |
| 8 | It is certainly my hope that this is the last time we have heard of a Denning-type investigation . |
| 9 | We have heard about a planet called Vadinamia , where our stolen phetam may have been taken . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the existence of such divisions does not mean that we have to talk of a multi-party system ; rather , it seems better to talk of two parties , both representing a broad spectrum of political viewpoints which nevertheless remain recognisable as either Whig or Tory . |
| 11 | At the university here we have got two or three groups in which we do know how to do that and especially the work that I 'm associated with , again the arts undergraduates , we have developed over a period now of something like six years , ways of giving them confidence , and it 's amazing to see what happens . |
| 12 | Sometimes we have emerged after a four hour session praying for revival to gulp down the night air with such joy and satisfaction as can only come when we know we have been with God . |
| 13 | ‘ We have trained for a month since the end of our home season , ’ explained Mark Catchpole , son of Aussie legend Ken . |
| 14 | We have demonstrated by an exonuclease assay that a 3.8kb PPT promoter fragment containing this 3.3kb fragment binds specifically to multiple protein complexes in vitro . |
| 15 | As we have seen in a previous chapter , he argued that such an illusory growth could in fact mask a real decline in values and use-values . |
| 16 | There is a deep sense of untimeliness about the death of a child and whereas , as we have seen in an earlier chapter , it is possible to look on some deaths as timely and part of the natural rhythm of life , when a child is involved this does not seem to be so . |
| 17 | Food : As we have seen in an earlier chapter , our physical condition has a great influence on our minds and our emotions — the reverse also being true . |
| 18 | As we have seen in an earlier chapter , by gentleman or noble person Spenser is thinking of a distinctive class of person , but his desire to fashion gentlemen nevertheless might be seen as directed at individual development . |
| 19 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
| 20 | The reason why we are embarrassed to admit this is that we have lived in an age when the self-sufficiency , the autonomy of poems has been elevated into dogma . |
| 21 | ‘ We have asked for a full investigation . |
| 22 | SERAFIN : Yes , but we have jumped into a really rather different category of household appliance , have n't we ? |
| 23 | ‘ Our side against Huddersfield will be the most experienced we have fielded for a long time . |
| 24 | We have fallen into an ageist trap and attempted to generalise and to stereotype . |
| 25 | We have argued for a long time that there is a peripheral argument that in the strategic interests of the nation we should be concerned about the coal industry . |
| 26 | We have argued for a revised theory of the relations between state and people : one reflecting the role of states in managing social relations and moral careers but one which recognises too that states , in representing a general or ‘ national ’ interest , have an important emotional significance . |
| 27 | As a way of understanding these linked themes we have argued for an increased emphasis on ‘ the expressive order ’ : the understandings , interpretations and theories which people have of their social world and the way it is changing . |
| 28 | We have landed in a blind alley . ’ |
| 29 | I mean , I do I do take your point about the culture , and it and it 's it is a significant issue , which will take some time , I mean , probably wi with your experience in Social Services you 'll know that a substantial number of directors of Social Services are in fact female , and maybe one of the questions that we have to ask at a senior level is , our s senior erm , chief officers , erm , the fact that we 've got no woman , chief officer , and it may well be because now that we 've got an equal opportunities policy , that we may get applications from erm , very able women who see that we have got a clear commitment to equal opportunities demonstrated in this paper . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ We have met with a wall of silence over this business . |