Example sentences of "we have been discussing " in BNC.

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1 So far we have been discussing the role of activity in the development of referential thinking , the development of the knowledge that ‘ there is a world out there ’ .
2 In Northern Ireland ‘ The Thing ’ eventually unchained some of the other phenomena that we have been discussing here , which are inherently separate : endemic hooliganism ; the breakthrough of the use of the firearm ; and the infinite potential for blocking the formation of antibodies , for blocking the natural reaction of a society to violence , which exists in a divided community .
3 He began by distinguishing between destructive mass phenomena , such as we have been discussing , and the destinies of individuals : ‘ Divine Providence … under the twofold aspect of General Law and Special Interposition . ’
4 ( Referring to whatever we have been discussing : hooliganism ; child abuse ; industrial unrest ; pollution — whatever has been in the news … )
5 Saints secretary , Geoff Sutcliffe , said : ‘ We have been discussing the situation with Mike for some weeks now , but he wishes to leave and we will advertise the job in this country and abroad . ’
6 Although many people possess the psychotic traits we have been discussing , only a few will show the signs of even a borderline disorder and still fewer will develop a full-blown psychotic illness .
7 But all these things that we have been discussing — rediscoveries in the history of art , changes in taste , etc — all this makes me wonder .
8 So far we have been discussing the intentional aspect of language in our comparison of human with other animal communication .
9 Essentially , you will be looking for the fullest possible information , not only about how fantastic the colour is , but about all the other factors we have been discussing , and how candid are the comments on the shortcomings .
10 There are , however , different levels of publication that could be developed which would eventually help more material to become available at the professional level that we have been discussing .
11 Apart from cases such as those we have been discussing , where the industries are nearly perfectly contestable , there are other , more traditional cases where the industry is a natural monopoly but a long way from being naturally contestable .
12 Of course , we have been discussing the problem in a very abstract manner , in both the state-owned and the state-regulated cases .
13 Observe that the sorts of inferences we have been discussing are not sanctioned by the form of language used .
14 This facet of conversational discourse quite naturally leads to a consideration of the individual speaker 's topics within what we have been discussing as the conversational topic .
15 We have been discussing uneven development .
16 So far we have been discussing behaviour within groups .
17 We have been discussing The Outsider by Camus .
18 I can Promise you that the police will do everything they can to find Mr. Stavanger , and to clear up the other matters we have been discussing . "
19 To see this consider again the consumption expenditure model we have been discussing .
20 Thus , the CEGB had explicitly tried to implement the pricing principles we have been discussing .
21 The sea-launched ballistic missile system that we have been discussing does not account for all our nuclear arsenal and we must look at what is left .
22 We have been discussing the DLA scheme , which is good in principle .
23 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 .
24 In a way all the survey types we have been discussing have been concerned with explanation , at least in the wide sense of this term .
25 There are none of the problems we have been discussing concerning image data because the videodisc is an analogue medium .
26 In the remote period of human history which we have been discussing it simply did not exist .
27 Let us return for a moment to the question of prognosis : what can be the outcome for modern societies of the phenomenon which we have been discussing ?
28 The result is the phenomenon of externalization which we have been discussing .
29 It is clear that the majority of students entering higher education on the basis of non-traditional qualifications are mature students , and the research which we have been discussing deals almost exclusively with students who are not just non-traditional entrants but also mature .
30 The strange invariant set that we have been discussing is very similar to Smale 's horseshoe example , introduced in his seminal ( 1967 ) paper .
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