Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been considering " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I 've been considering how best to answer that question for the last twenty minutes . |
| 3 | I 've been considering the problem this afternoon . |
| 4 | I have been considering this . ’ |
| 5 | I have been considering how we in British industry can help our Forces in the Gulf at this difficult time . |
| 6 | I have been considering this matter for nearly two years , but my mind moves slowly ; I dislike publicity , and I had hoped that somebody else might lead the way . |
| 7 | Having just purchased a lovely thoroughbred mare , I have been considering various events I could take up . |
| 8 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 9 | Erm another s source of energy we 've been considering is th is , is a tidal barrage across the Severn and erm you probably recognize this as a , as a map of the Severn Estuary er er and if you did n't it says the Severn Estuary in big letters er across the er the bottom |
| 10 | The other source of energy we 've been considering is wind power . |
| 11 | We have been considering some of the ways in which the late Roman world inhabited by Christians was transformed in fact and in their imagination . |
| 12 | Pliny the Younger 's account of the death of his uncle during the A.D. 79 eruption of Vesuvius has been commemorated in the term Plinian eruption , the most violent of all in the sequence we have been considering . |
| 13 | As with the other grammatical devices we have been considering , the function of the article is to set contextual co-ordinates in a way which narrows down the range of inference . |
| 14 | In our consideration of technology and the production of particular artefacts we have been considering portable items which would have been of assistance to everyday life , some more so than others . |
| 15 | ‘ We feel we have been considering each other too much . |
| 16 | But the idea that to talk of the ‘ meaning ’ of a word is to talk of some thing does not seem to apply to the use we have been considering of the word ‘ here ’ . |
| 17 | During this trajectory , some move into institutional care and therefore out of the population we have been considering . |
| 18 | The counter-evidence that we have been considering is , in a sense , defined away . |
| 19 | We have been considering the subject of history . |
| 20 | In the above discussion we have been considering a word-oriented computer where each instruction occupies one word . |
| 21 | We have been considering , in , groups of instructions to perform operations on the different data formats held within the computer . |
| 22 | This notion is , of course , implicit in the construction of the sets of features of context which we have been considering in this chapter . |
| 23 | In this section we have been considering their respective accounts of structural change . |
| 24 | In this section we have been considering the properties of hierarchies in general . |
| 25 | Whereas until now we have been considering changes that are forming an underclass , we now turn to examine a reform already enacted that will ensure that the underclass , and other vulnerable groups , continue to be the least privileged in old age . |
| 26 | On the evidence we have been considering so far , we can also safely assume that many more of these defendants will be given custodial sentences than would otherwise have been the case , and that the terms imposed will also be substantially longer in many cases . |
| 27 | I would now like to turn my attention to something which is in a sense a mirror image of what we have been considering . |
| 28 | The kind of imprinting that we have been considering so far is called ‘ filial ’ imprinting . |
| 29 | It should be added that some influential and interesting recent developments of linguistic or stylistic criticism , notably Roger Fowler 's Literature as Social Discourse , propose a kind of functional analysis that is rather different from those we have been considering . |
| 30 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |