Example sentences of "we have be [v-ing] [prep] this " 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 | What should you do about old hurts , the catalogues of personal dramas we have been unearthing in this chapter ? |
| 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 | We can now state the central result of applying the rational expectations hypothesis to the aggregate demand — aggregate supply model that we have been using in this chapter . |
| 5 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years . |
| 6 | ‘ We have been asking for this specialist help at the Memorial hospital for a long time now , but there has been no movement from the health authority over this matter . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |
| 8 | The aspects of energy that we have been talking about this evening erm are part of your course , are they discussed in this form by the students taking your course ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
| 11 | ‘ We have been working toward this end . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 13 | If inflation is too much money pursuing too few goods , it does not follow that we must — as we have been doing in this country — reduce the supply of money all the time and thus have the disastrous consequences for industry that have occurred . |