Example sentences of "we have [been] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we have been patrolling the chef has been woken , and breakfast awaits our return . |
| 2 | We have been exploring the idea that Protestantism helped to create a climate in which the scientific enterprise could gain momentum . |
| 3 | So far , we have been taking the sound recording very much for granted . |
| 4 | For some years at Tesco , we have been collecting the boxes in which our products are delivered to stores and some of the paper that we use in our offices for re-cycling . |
| 5 | We have been considering the problem for some time — — unlike the right hon. Gentleman , who has only just discovered it . |
| 6 | In this section we have been considering the properties of hierarchies in general . |
| 7 | We have been considering the subject of history . |
| 8 | So far , we have been considering the equity implications of a tax . |
| 9 | Until now we have been reconstructing the system … |
| 10 | But we have been using the term ‘ performing ’ for what the actor does — an act of describing to non-participants who are present as spectators . |
| 11 | We have been discussing the DLA scheme , which is good in principle . |
| 12 | Of course , we have been discussing the problem in a very abstract manner , in both the state-owned and the state-regulated cases . |
| 13 | Saints secretary , Geoff Sutcliffe , said : ‘ We have been discussing the situation with Mike for some weeks now , but he wishes to leave and we will advertise the job in this country and abroad . ’ |
| 14 | We have been discussing The Outsider by Camus . |
| 15 | So far we have been discussing the role of activity in the development of referential thinking , the development of the knowledge that ‘ there is a world out there ’ . |
| 16 | Because we have been given the possibility of sight , it is no surprise when we are inconsolable if we have no eyesight . |
| 17 | I believe that we have been given the right to have dominion over animals . |
| 18 | We have been given the status , resources and expertise to do so — on both sides of the Channel . |
| 19 | For two years we have been refocussing the organisation of the profession and defining our key objectives . |
| 20 | Working in conjunction with ScottishPower , we have been changing the plant at Hunterston which provides the excitation for the turbine generators . |
| 21 | So far we have been describing the ways in which the processes of socialisation and internalisation come to bind societies together and reproduce practices and institutions . |
| 22 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |
| 23 | Now that we have been offered the choice and the opportunity to buy produce that has n't been sprayed or hybridised , it does seem reasonable to expect that flavour will return . |
| 24 | In return , we have been allowed the role of ‘ mother 's little helper ’ , and our services are being relied upon to support the public . |
| 25 | This is a wide er feeling and er a feeling of great anger er because only recently we have been told the truth of how this money was used . |
| 26 | We do n't really know a lot about how much sediment load they 've been carrying because we have been measuring the amount of material being carried by Sussex rivers for the last decade to two decades , so our level of information is very , very low . |
| 27 | on a limited number of schemes we have been doing the estimates for four or five years |
| 28 | GERRY Barron-Fox , newly appointed director of our Facilities Management Service , was delighted recently to announce that we have been awarded the contract for the management of multiple support activities at BP sites throughout Dorset and at Sherwood House , BP Wytch Farm . |
| 29 | In addition , WGPT 's Permanent Downhole Readout product line has excellent potential for the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico , as evidenced by how quickly we have been awarded the Tahoe project contract by Shell in New Orleans ’ . |
| 30 | We have been arguing the point with the inspector at claims branch for many many months and we just seem to go round in circles . |