Example sentences of "we have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean , obviously we 've been playing this game for hours . |
| 32 | ‘ We 've been fighting each other like spoilt kids instead of fighting the real enemy , our international competitors . |
| 33 | We got specific money , in other words , the government flagged up that in the first year , there were going to be infrastructure costs , and so there was a specific allowance made for that , and we 've been recruiting gradually , not all at once , over a period of time , as the numbers of people coming into the community care system rise , we 've been recruiting new staff there . |
| 34 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 35 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 36 | Mr Cattell said : ‘ We had been expecting bad news but had no idea where the axe would fall . |
| 37 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 38 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 39 | I don I should also say that following a very recent decision er in our submission that 's probably right , that my Lord as I say , I say to you with no joy , this really is desperate and er one can not have , in our submission , in the minds of the jury by inadmissible evidence , the suggestion that yes we have been harbouring this man two days before . |
| 40 | We have been addressing two audiences throughout the debate — the outside audience , whom the Opposition want to convince that this is a shock horror experience , and the audience in the House . |
| 41 | ‘ We have been supplying anti-jet lag products to businessmen in the City for years , ’ says Daniele 's marketing director Farrol Kahn . |
| 42 | In the main , we have been exploring sensory perception and physical reality . |
| 43 | We have been taking slow steps towards that goal and have faced a number of barriers along the way . |
| 44 | ‘ With the kind of cut-backs we have been doing , we have been incurring substantial reorganisation costs and profitability has been difficult to achieve , ’ Mr Mair said . |
| 45 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 46 | An even longer contract is at Grampian TV in Aberdeen , where we have been operating 365 days a year , for the past 24 years . |
| 47 | ‘ We feel we have been considering each other too much . |
| 48 | In our consideration of technology and the production of particular artefacts we have been considering portable items which would have been of assistance to everyday life , some more so than others . |
| 49 | We have been teaching electronic publishing to undergraduate students for some ten years now , and to computer science undergraduates for six years . |
| 50 | Notice that we have been using reverse operations to show direction , Forward or " plus " to the right of 0 , backward or " minus " to the left . |
| 51 | However , it appears that 2 star petrol is now unavailable in our area , so we have been using 4 star in its place . |
| 52 | It may also be appropriate to explain that we have been using both systems , side by side , for over two years with files being transferred between them throughout that time . |
| 53 | We have been discussing uneven development . |
| 54 | We 're discussing this morning , and I 'll run briefly through the subjects that we have been discussing this morning for the er , new listeners . |
| 55 | We have been covering random Horse & Pony Auctions during the latter part of 1991 in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 56 | A company spokeswoman said : ‘ We have been selling 100 bottles a day . |
| 57 | We have been analysing social institutions and formations in cultural production , in their variably manifest forms . |
| 58 | One answer is that in the late 1980s we have been witnessing structural changes , whereas in more normal times we see only adjustments and changes within a set structure . |
| 59 | We have been making great progress as people sometimes prefer to talk to civilians . ’ |
| 60 | We have been doing more heavyweight interviews . |