Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance having retired to this lovely English village , and assembled my wits and memories to compile this narrative , I have had the satisfaction recently of discovering the original meaning of three common expressions which I have been using for years . |
| 2 | ‘ I might not be the youngest but I have a great deal of knowledge which I have been using in the field of local and regional government for years . ’ |
| 3 | I have given this Nayar material at some length because it exemplifies such a large number of the themes which I have been emphasizing throughout this book . |
| 4 | Brightest spot : the final , disgraceful death of the opinion poll industry , which I have been campaigning for since 1983 . |
| 5 | And as luck would have it , I just happen to have a list of apparently germane truths which I have been maturing during the last month or so , after being worsted in various conversations . |
| 6 | It is this assumption which I have been questioning in this paper . |
| 7 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |
| 8 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 9 | This notion is , of course , implicit in the construction of the sets of features of context which we have been considering in this chapter . |
| 10 | If a company provides a service to the kind of employee which we have been talking about , and the company subsidises that service , the benefit assessable on the employee is the cost to the employer of providing that service . |
| 11 | The size of the waves is governed largely by the time during which they have been moving under the influence of the-wind . |
| 12 | A buy-in of shares may be the appropriate method of effecting a management buy-out where certain shareholders wish to realise their investment in a business which they have been running for some time , or they wish to retire , and there is a management team willing to continue with the business and become the new shareholders . |
| 13 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 14 | What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system , Fodor calls the central systems . |
| 15 | Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’ |
| 16 | The reader may well ask what I have been talking about hitherto . |
| 17 | It 's fascinating and deals with attitude and mind control , using a technique called ‘ visualisation ’ which is more or less what I have been doing with my Knights . |
| 18 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 19 | ‘ This is what I have been waiting for to really make the hotel complete . ’ |
| 20 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 21 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 22 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 23 | Erm I 'd like to refer to my page three or er section four in my conclusions because I think if I if I heard Professor Lock correctly I think he and I are at one in in a suggestion which is is put to you in in if you like without prejudice to the generality of what I have been saying in support of the council 's policy . |
| 24 | ‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache . |
| 25 | That is what you have been doing by lying about the many things you say took place . ’ |
| 26 | This facet of conversational discourse quite naturally leads to a consideration of the individual speaker 's topics within what we have been discussing as the conversational topic . |
| 27 | If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for ! |
| 28 | ‘ By God , ’ he commented , ‘ that is what we have been looking for . ’ |
| 29 | The period of calm after the year-end 1992 figures were out of the way and digested ended with a bang this week as Wall Street woke up to what we have been flagging over the past month — that estimates for IBM Corp 's first quarter performance were far too high , and that virtually no business was being done . |
| 30 | ‘ The seven per cent bank base rate is very good news for the housing market and it is what we have been calling for . |