Example sentences of "we have [been] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
| 2 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |
| 3 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 4 | In general , we have been writing about those melodies which are complete and have a well-defined entirety . |
| 5 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 6 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 7 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
| 8 | If we have been outplayed to any degree in the last year , the opposition scores goals and wins . |
| 9 | What should you do about old hurts , the catalogues of personal dramas we have been unearthing in this chapter ? |
| 10 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 11 | This notion is , of course , implicit in the construction of the sets of features of context which we have been considering in this chapter . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We have been referred to those authorities . |
| 14 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 15 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 16 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 17 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Drouot chairman Joel-Marie Millon said : ‘ We have been asking for this measure for years . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | We have been liaising with those bodies who are surveying associated areas in this field , but the additional information we gather here should be of great use in future policy-making . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The contents of motion one seven eight appear to be sound , conference , we have been tried and we have been tried by some regions in a very limited way with some success . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | ‘ Unfortunately because of the contraction of the industry and the state of the market we have been forced into this position . |
| 26 | ‘ We have been working toward this end . ’ |
| 27 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 28 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 29 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 30 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |