Example sentences of "we [modal v] have the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally , though we may have the background threat of Gomez 's South American violence or past humiliation ( Maisie Mountjoy brings back the music hall again ) , the late plays are too conventional to take us again immediately from London to Kinkanja . |
| 2 | We may have the world 's most boring aliens , but we do have corn circles , something no one else has got . |
| 3 | Bordeaux is traditionally the arena for a thrilling mass sprint finish and on the long straight ride through the flatlands of Les Landes we may have the awesome sight of the whole peloton at full speed , driving along at up to 60 kilometres per hour , not in pursuit of a breakaway , but in anticipation of the finish . |
| 4 | If we take Sheldrake 's ideas about morphogenetic fields seriously , we may have the suggestion of a hidden energy field actually underlying the formation of the landscape itself , giving it both form and character . |
| 5 | The garrison finally capitulated at 4 pm , enabling the Duke to write complacently : ‘ Now we may have the happiness to say that this part of the kingdom is clear of all the rebels . ’ |
| 6 | In Britain it is easy to forget that , while we may have the publicly available electoral register , we are almost alone in Europe in not requiring each citizen to have a formally registered address , and to notify changes of address to the police . |
| 7 | When those goals are respected , we may have the opportunity to spend increasing amounts . |
| 8 | He thinks we ought to have the softer article in from time to time . ’ |
| 9 | Er , I 've had a word with Jeremy about decorating , oh Florrie I must apologise I did try to ring you , I think I managed to get everybody else , erm but you were n't there , in and then I , I left it I regret to say , erm but we thought perhaps we ought to have the kitchen re-decorated and I 've had a word with Jereminy , Jereminy , Jeremy and he says about two hundred pounds and I did get permission from some of you and I 've gone ahead and asked him to do it and he said about three weeks , but before we can have that done , in the meantime , the roof leaked again out in the kitchen Erm , so I 've had a word with Peter who was going on holiday and he should be home this week and he said he will look at it as soon as he 's home , so I 'll give him a ring , I 'll try tomorrow night , I 'm out tonight , I 'll try and give him a ring tomorrow . |
| 10 | ‘ No responsible leader would press the button and we should have the courage to say so . ’ |
| 11 | Squatting , tossing back his black curly locks from time to time , he was chatting to his elderly accompanist : ‘ I think we should have the Bach . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Andrea and myself , as a working-class woman and a Black woman , come from those groups , and feel we should have the chance to express our ideas as much as anyone else . ’ |
| 13 | At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution … |
| 14 | At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution … |
| 15 | As the first president of the faculty of community medicine ( now public health medicine ) his view on the role of the specialty remains pertinent — with ‘ specialists equally skilled in administration and epidemiology and with a broad view of social medicine and its research ’ we should have the chance of making the NHS more effective and efficient . |
| 16 | Again , in our case it is an absolute requirement that we should have the support of the localities in which we place our factories . |
| 17 | ‘ Pappy , ’ Katherine began , ‘ Pappy , I think we should have the apartment done over . |
| 18 | We should have the result soon . ’ |
| 19 | If there were no fixed costs , then we should have the output effect ( term in Eq . |
| 20 | Now we 'll see what the government does in response to er all their friends who are going bankrupt in the Lloyds er cos er that , in that scandal , on the one hand you 've got the government trying to save its neck with its forty four MPs who 've had their , had their hand in the till at the same that they 're doing that , they wo n't actually meet the just demands of people who 've worked all their lives to actually have some sort of security in the future , and that 's the ol er sort of double standards they 're gon na try and er and use to get off the hook on that one because they owe people in this country a decent , we should have the right to a decent pension and security , employment and er with this , this campaign , we should be , we should be concentrating on as a major issue for this union in the forthcoming year . |
| 21 | It is particularly fitting that we should have the debates on education and employment on the same day , because education is a continuing process throughout life upon which employment is heavily dependent . |
| 22 | If we did that , we would do away with all these debates about local taxation , whether we should have the rating system or another system such as the poll tax or the council tax , and we would have a system which , at the end of the day , would give the local people the opportunity to determine priorities . |
| 23 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that , before we get to Maastricht , it is important that we should have the views of all hon. Members ? |
| 24 | We should have the right not to join when the timetable date is reached in respect of the present European monetary union treaty . |
| 25 | ‘ We should have the CCOAC list tomorrow . ’ |
| 26 | He screwed up his eyes and said , ‘ We should have the sun against us for a bit . |
| 27 | And if we 've been filled with the Holy Spirit , then we should have the evidence to go with it . |
| 28 | The treaty will involve the transfer of extensive powers from Westminster and we should have the opportunity to vote freely on the issue . |
| 29 | I have no desire to rake over the past but we should have the right to refer to matters of historical record . |
| 30 | Well , we should have the guarantee still , there in the box there . |