Example sentences of "[noun] that i have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | The mediation between theory and practice that I have been discussing here defines the domain of applied linguistics as this relates to language teaching . |
2 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
3 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
4 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
5 | Erm I have as I say one other if you like self-employed business opportunity that I have been pursuing erm which erm I shall know after Tuesday of next week . |
6 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
7 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
8 | It wo n't be very good for the petrol companies that I 've been visiting here today , but every cloud tends to have it 's silver lining , and I , I think I can say with some confidence that the last factor that we 're considering is pouring over the revenues and wondering how much is coming in , that , that really has n't much come into it . |
9 | I mean in the periods that I 've been coming down and coming over , and it 's been a fairly regular basis , I should imagine every manager and director or university employee has put forward every conceivable way in which that particular building could be used . |
10 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
11 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
12 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
13 | My pen that I 've been working . |
14 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
15 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
16 | Many questions were asked on these papers by the Panel , and the other thing that I thought was very revealing , is one point that I 've been hammering away at , is the fact that they actually produced these figures for U K car registrations over the last 10 years , 10 years ago there were one and a half million , last year there were nearly 2 and a half million . |
17 | That confirms the point that I have been making to the House for some time about the international slow-down and international difficulties . |
18 | And I 'd just like to take the opportunity to er emphasise the point that I have been making at this E I P that erm r regional migration from the West Yorkshire is reducing and we do n't want to create a magnet which reverses that trend . |
19 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
20 | I keep rehearsing that low brace that I have been thinking about ever since we set a date for our attempt . |
21 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
22 | So that answers all those years that I have been conducting these seminars , it answers my question not in the way I was particularly happy about I have to say , but I mean it did answer my question and then it may be them having you know I mean like sort of things I may not be particularly happy with , but maybe it is good that the papers are reflecting what the community wants . |
23 | In the fifteen years that I have been giving lectures on sleep and dreaming to many groups of sixth-formers as well as undergraduate students , I have , in fact , only once had a single positive response to this question . |
24 | also some of the things that I 've been going on with , doing this one with three , and I do n't know if it , they 'll stay in the can long enough for that . |
25 | As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages . |
26 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
27 | It 's as if I 've won a marathon , or a prize , or some huge event that I 've been training for for months . |
28 | As to the other case that I want to say a word about , I have to confess now to beating a drum that I have been beating with varying success for a number of years . |
29 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
30 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |