Example sentences of "we can have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The distribution of television signals by satellite means that we can have easy access to programmes from other countries in other languages . |
2 | This is the reason we can have solid bodies that do not collapse to a point or radiate away to infinity . |
3 | Why did n't the word standard get put in the place of quality we can have standard assurance as opposed to quality assurance ? |
4 | Sid had chosen a spot at the top of the orchard a few yards from the wall surrounding Brigade H.Q ‘ We can have two trenches with one entrance , ’ he said , ‘ Your trench there , and my trench here , ’ drawing a diagram with the point of his bayonet . |
5 | And Douglas will retire soon , I think , so we can have new blood at the foreign office . |
6 | Being a property tax — there is not now any contention between the two main parties about that — we can either tax the kind of house and say , for example , that all three-bedroom properties shall be taxed the same , in which case my hon. Friends should be aware that we would soon have tremendous anomalies as the same tax is placed on a Mayfair flat as is put on a flat in a mining village , or we can have regional banding , and then there must be boundaries between regions . |
7 | I 'm sure there are people who do n't sort of bother with them at all , you know just saw er a man he dropped he 's erm , he dropped his till receipt and he looked as if he had a tremendous amount you know in his basket so I reckon it would of been over , but there was no erm cos you get it stamped yes so we have er , yes I 'd forgotten about those little erm chickens of course , so we can have that roast |
8 | ‘ From laughter we can have small victories . ’ |
9 | Spiritual lives , we can have spiritual lives |
10 | Well I think that we have shown that we 're prepared to support Gorbachev in so far as er peace reform in the Soviet Union , but I think we 've got to look towards our own security in the West and we 've done very well with NATO , with the defensive block NATO over the last 40 years or so , and until we can have cast iron guarantees that Gorbachev is going to be secure and that he 's actually going to carry out his promises we 've got to keep our guard up . |
11 | Similarly , although anything that exists is particular and individual , we can have general ideas . |
12 | How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ? |
13 | ‘ Somewhere we can have running water while we chat ? ’ |
14 | " I can fix a trellis to that garage wall , and we can have climbing plants all over it . |
15 | I urge people to talk to us as quickly as possible so that we can have meaningful discussions in the EC . |
16 | Cultures are like colours — we can have any number on our palette without any problems . |
17 | ‘ No , just a glass of hot milk — half a glass , actually , so we can have some breakfast . ’ |
18 | ‘ We can have some fun before you go . ’ |
19 | As for his personal problems during the seventies — well i guess we can have some fun about it but at least he got to meet ( well not just meet … ) two or three miss world's. |
20 | All this , I argued , is at least suggestive about how we can have some form of access to the superficial form , say of our walking ( i.e. to the gross sequence of movements , if not to the nerves ) , and can impose a new walking ‘ strategy ’ to which we will then in due course ( after an analogue of compilation ) again lose access . |
21 | We 've actually been successful in that again because we 've got , last year I think we got six thousand pounds , and this year we 've been told we can have eighty percent of the same again . |
22 | Yeah , cos I think Ann 's been two courses now and we 've picked her brains so we can have basic use , but er you start to realise it 's only a little bit of the system you know , you could do a lot more |
23 | And once we 've exchanged contracts then we can have this solicitor 's letter for this fifteen hundred pound to go ahead and all this that and the other . |
24 | We can have crazy paving , with those stone pots that have flowers poking out of holes . |
25 | And we can have considerable fun doing just that . ’ |
26 | oh , I mean er , I know we can have different opinions on why we think St John is so adamant that she must be his wife I do think it 's a power struggle . |
27 | I 'll come round first thing tomorrow morning and we can have another jaw then . |
28 | I mean we , we keep telling the old man to book the weekend holiday so we can have outrageous parties and things like that . |
29 | It 's not erm it 's no good just saying oh we can have three days out of the week anyway . |
30 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |