Example sentences of "we have [been] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start of this climb we 'd been uncomfortably hot in the sunshine , but by the end the sun had moved on and the wind had got up . |
| 2 | Could we have been more different from one another ? |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been financially solvent for the last five years , and the surplus has all been allocated to the new production of The Count of Luxembourg . |
| 4 | We 've been really worried about you , you know . ’ |
| 5 | The effects of rabies are little known in Britain , that 's because we 've been virtually free of the disease since quarantine regulations were introduced in nineteen twenty two . |
| 6 | We 've been so worried about you ! |
| 7 | We 've been so worried about you — whatever possessed you ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been so worried about you . |
| 9 | But , as I say , we 've been very unhappy about it ! |
| 10 | Everyone has had a reasonable work-out and we 've been very fortunate with the weather at a time of the year when you can have a lot of matches ruined by rain . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been very fortunate in most of the families of new residents when they take them out , they often take out their friends as well . |
| 12 | We 're coming along very well and erm working hard as coach and erm things have really been picking up we 've been very pleased with the way it 's gone . |
| 13 | Yeah , so far we 've been very lucky in , in Britain I think , apart from the hurricane damage , once or twice , on the whole our climates is not bad . |
| 14 | You know , that 's , that 's something that we 've been very careful about . |
| 15 | We 've been uniquely successful in the amalgamation stakes . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been extremely selective in the sheep we 've chosen . |
| 17 | Consequently we 've been greatly concerned by the government 's delay in bringing forward this legislation which was adopted in draft on the twenty third of June nineteen ninety three and became a council directive on the sixth of December nineteen ninety three . |
| 18 | Later he said to me that we had been very helpful to him and he said it 's bad enough to be depressed but when you 're depressed and hungry , it 's really bad . |
| 19 | In general we have been most successful with pupils excluded from other schools and returning from special provision . |
| 20 | We have been most successful in the past few years in attracting investment from 18 countries . |
| 21 | We have been particularly concerned in this study with the large to very large enterprise . |
| 22 | We have been particularly concerned in this report with perhaps the main exemplar of such a development : what has come to be called ‘ environmental scanning ’ . |
| 23 | If we have been indirectly responsible for a death , there is only one way we can make amends . ’ |
| 24 | At the end of the debate , the House will give its support for the Prime Minister carrying on playing a full part in European evolution — an evolution about which we have been too hesitant for too long . |
| 25 | ‘ We have been fairly firm with those who see it as a stick to beat the FPA or Dundee with — that is not our intention . ’ |
| 26 | But like many other nations we have been deeply concerned by the violence in the Baltics , and we have communicated that concern to the Soviet leadership . |
| 27 | Thus far we have been chiefly interested in the principles of central government . |
| 28 | In fact we have been so good at it that we have been awarded the RCI Gold Star for the second year running . |
| 29 | We have been more thorough in our approach to training and developing our technique . ’ |
| 30 | We have been more wary of challenging the transcultural verity of sexual categories , but in reality a minimum awareness of the evidence should alert us to the fact that though various cultures share general sexual forms , this does not mean that their content , inner structures and meanings are identical . |