Example sentences of "we have been following " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , there are no volcanoes on the South Island of New Zealand , and the volcanic chain we have been following all round the pacific seems to fizzle out there . |
| 2 | The story of the Frome Titfords properly ends with the youngest of the four brothers whose fortunes we have been following ; his children were to be the last Titfords in the town , and he himself outlived William , Thomas and Charles . |
| 3 | Over the past few months , we have been following a series of sermons on the last few chapters of Paul 's letter to the church in Rome . |
| 4 | There is less reason to baulk at the term referent , although a referent is , by definition , something outside language , and although we should prefer to speak of syntactic entities in order to keep in harmony with the assumptions we have been following throughout this text ; however the latter are the linguistic correlates of what are perceived as extra-linguistic referents , and the patterns of intensional relations are exactly the same whether there is an external referent or not . |
| 5 | We have been following up leads . ’ |
| 6 | As the elected representatives of governing bodies of Scottish sport we have been following closely the lottery bill 's progress through Parliament . |
| 7 | In seven months Skipper , the four-year-old whose progress we have been following , has learned an awful lot . |