Example sentences of "we [verb] been [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 2 | I stared into the mist until my eyes hurt , ahead , off both quarters , in case we 'd been carried the other way , even astern . |
| 3 | We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ? |
| 4 | and then it 's not disturbing her although we 've been using the bottom bedroom really . |
| 5 | If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures . |
| 6 | For over a year now we 've been running a major initiative which is a systematic review of all our Sainsburys brand packaging to see where we can minimise the use of materials , but still allow the packaging to do the job of protecting the product and preserving it . |
| 7 | The Dept of Health says ’ we are aware of the problem and we 've been pressing the medical profession to do something about it for some time . |
| 8 | She was to be proved right , as we had been taught a Spartan routine for our babies at ‘ Alderbourne Arches ’ the pre-natal training unit . |
| 9 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 10 | We have been lacking a wee bit of professionalism recently . |
| 11 | In the last year we have been developing an occasional series to respond to this demand — the Survivors ' Guide . |
| 12 | But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true . |
| 13 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 14 | ‘ We have been monitoring the downward trend over the last 10 years , and our impression is that the decline is beginning to bottom out : there may have been 5m fewer loans last year , but the drop was 15m in 1991–92 . |
| 15 | In the above discussion we have been considering a word-oriented computer where each instruction occupies one word . |
| 16 | We have been denied the exhilarating late ‘ minuet ’ tempos of Haydn and Mozart … |
| 17 | We have been reversing the Labour Party 's neglect of the prison service in the 1970s . |
| 18 | So far we have been discussing the intentional aspect of language in our comparison of human with other animal communication . |
| 19 | This second stage is carried out in public speech to which we have been given the decoding key , and from our privileged perspective the success of the hypocrite has unfortunate consequences for the dupe . |
| 20 | To date we have been permitting an additional smoking break in the morning and again in the afternoon for smokers within the office as part of the agreement to have no smoking throughout the main parts of Chesser House . |
| 21 | This year , we have been running the general SVQ at level I for around 36 students in S5 — and we 're very pleased with the way it 's gone . |
| 22 | We reluctantly cancelled our holiday and we have been offered a full refund . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's all very well people telling us we are a really attractive side to watch , ’ he said , ‘ but we have been conceding the odd soft goal and that 's got to stop . |
| 24 | Answer guide : The point being illustrated here is that although we have been told the finite life of the machine and we are aware of the reasons for the loss in utility we still have to make estimates of when the machine will cease to be useful . |
| 25 | we have been waiting a long time traffic calming . |
| 26 | We have been allocated a flat and I hope we can live a normal life in spite of the past . |
| 27 | In fact we have been so good at it that we have been awarded the RCI Gold Star for the second year running . |
| 28 | So far we have been presupposing a single agent responding to a present situation and trying to guide his spontaneity by reason . |
| 29 | We have been shown a large number of the judges ' orders which are reproduced in Dugdale 's Origines Juridiciales , 3rd ed. ( 1680 ) , ch. 70–72 . |
| 30 | Says 24-year-old Alex : ‘ We have been having a great time in Blackpool and are all so excited about coming to Liverpool . |