Example sentences of "[conj] we have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 2 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 3 | Although we have been seeking similar promotional competitions with northern theatres [ and we have n't given up yet ] we do not have the facilities to run a comprehensive programme of regional competitions . |
| 4 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 5 | We write to them normally within seven days , ask them to read it , clarifying exactly the policy they 've got , give them the option to pull out if they should so wish , and in fairness I have got to say that we 've been doing that now for the last eighteen months . |
| 6 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 7 | We 're discussing this morning , and I 'll run briefly through the subjects that we have been discussing this morning for the er , new listeners . |
| 8 | Notice that we have been using reverse operations to show direction , Forward or " plus " to the right of 0 , backward or " minus " to the left . |
| 9 | It may also be appropriate to explain that we have been using both systems , side by side , for over two years with files being transferred between them throughout that time . |
| 10 | Okay , so we 've been saying that , I mean clearly , I mean that , that 's good evidence to suggest that world trade in absolute terms in agricultural goods is , is increasing , but as a proportion of world trade erm , it 's er , we know , we know that , we know that it , it 's falling . |
| 11 | However , it appears that 2 star petrol is now unavailable in our area , so we have been using 4 star in its place . |
| 12 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah , well even Laura like she eats salad at school like you know , but erm , she 's got erm , what did we have the other night cos we 'd been eating semi semi Mediterranean food this week |
| 14 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 15 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 16 | And that 's rather a pity because we 've been doing these holidays for a long time now , and I think , those people have enjoyed themselves ? |
| 17 | Then she thought perhaps Pat is dead now , perhaps he has died even now while we have been watching this dreadful absurdity . |
| 18 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 19 | ‘ It is interesting that a major conservation charity like the Trust has been served with a writ now , when we have been doing this for 30 years at Blickling , ’ he added . |
| 20 | Although you see erm as we 've been suggesting any project requires that . |
| 21 | ‘ Some of the stuff is very '70s sounding , but then again , as we 've been doing this thing for such a long time , I guess it 's kinda cool that all that is back in vogue . |
| 22 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |