Example sentences of "[Wh det] we have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |
| 2 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 3 | This notion is , of course , implicit in the construction of the sets of features of context which we have been considering in this chapter . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | ‘ By God , ’ he commented , ‘ that is what we have been looking for . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The seven per cent bank base rate is very good news for the housing market and it is what we have been calling for . |
| 10 | Wall Street yesterday finally woke up to what we have been saying since January — that IBM Corp sets its dividend for one quarter at a time , and that there is no guarantee that the level declared for fourth quarter 1992 will be maintained quarterly this year : market dealers in Europe say a rumour surfaced here yesterday morning that another cut may be coming . |
| 11 | ‘ The only way this is going to end is by political resolution and that is what we have been campaigning for . |
| 12 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 13 | ‘ What we have been doing over the last few weekends is exercising our right to search someone if we have a reasonable belief that they are carrying a weapon , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 14 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 15 | It may be that we can learn from computers something of what we have been missing in the game ; or , that chess is so rich , that only a symbiosis between man and machine can explore it adequately . |
| 16 | What we have been talking about in economies and logistics support is reducing the amount of second line base facilities for this aeroplane . |