Example sentences of "we have been considering " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 ‘ We feel we have been considering each other too much .
6 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 ’ .
7 During this trajectory , some move into institutional care and therefore out of the population we have been considering .
8 The counter-evidence that we have been considering is , in a sense , defined away .
9 We have been considering the subject of history .
10 In the above discussion we have been considering a word-oriented computer where each instruction occupies one word .
11 We have been considering , in , groups of instructions to perform operations on the different data formats held within the computer .
12 This notion is , of course , implicit in the construction of the sets of features of context which we have been considering in this chapter .
13 In this section we have been considering their respective accounts of structural change .
14 In this section we have been considering the properties of hierarchies in general .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 I would now like to turn my attention to something which is in a sense a mirror image of what we have been considering .
18 The kind of imprinting that we have been considering so far is called ‘ filial ’ imprinting .
19 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 .
20 Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time .
21 So far , we have been considering the equity implications of a tax .
22 We have been considering the problem for some time — — unlike the right hon. Gentleman , who has only just discovered it .
23 When -Ri is small , the former is dominant and the motion is essentially of the type we have been considering hitherto .
24 The simple sieves we have been considering so far in this chapter are all examples of single-step selection .
25 We have been considering a move into the US coal industry for some time and the acquisition of these mines is the first step in establishing the foundations of a new high quality business for RTZ in the USA , ’ he said .
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