Example sentences of "we have [been] [v-ing] the [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 | and then it 's not disturbing her although we 've been using the bottom bedroom really . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | We have been reversing the Labour Party 's neglect of the prison service in the 1970s . |
| 7 | So far we have been discussing the intentional aspect of language in our comparison of human with other animal communication . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |