Example sentences of "that we have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | The second , one that we have been promoting , is to bring in a new team of professional managers , each experienced at running a multibillion-dollar business unit . |
| 3 | But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true . |
| 4 | You may feel that we have been exaggerating about the goodies we like to consume causing us shape and health problems . |
| 5 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The strange invariant set that we have been discussing is very similar to Smale 's horseshoe example , introduced in his seminal ( 1967 ) paper . |
| 12 | Some of them can be issues relating to these energy matters that we have been discussing , and in fact one of the aims of introducing this form of discussion is that science is often seen as a very factual subject — that you just receive and learn the facts . |
| 13 | His eighth point is another that we have been pushing — that Gerstner should not fooled into thinking the ‘ services ’ business will automatically become IBM 's saviour . |
| 14 | ‘ What pleases me is the fact that we have been creating chances and I personally feel it will only be a matter of time before we get it right . ’ |
| 15 | The campaigns that we have been conducting are moving in that direction because special constables have a particularly valuable part to play . |
| 16 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 17 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments about the policies that we have been pursuing and economic prosperity in the Province , where we have seen advances in recent years . |
| 18 | The counter-evidence that we have been considering is , in a sense , defined away . |
| 19 | The kind of imprinting that we have been considering so far is called ‘ filial ’ imprinting . |
| 20 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 21 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 22 | All the problems that we have been wrestling with over recent years in attempting to formulate a set of principles for communicative language teaching suddenly vanish as if at the waving of a wand . |
| 23 | Without defining ethics , they believe that we have been acting unethically : they describe a typical case in which elective ventilation might be considered — a patient with a clearly diagnosed fatal cerebral injury who undergoes respiratory arrest . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Er , yes I agree the funding that we provide at the moment , seventeen thousand I think , er i in in we 've already committed erm for for wh for the coming year , is small but it is because of the example , because er people who wish to m er erm promote cycling schemes and cycling policies within South Cambridgeshire , within the county council can identify the example that we have been setting that hypothecated budget aimed at cycling have been er directed this way and have been spent amicably , constructively , sensibly by cycling working parties . |
| 28 | It is this that we have been displaying and using in publications . |
| 29 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 30 | As I was saying earlier , paper qualifications can not guarantee to exclude the kind of evil that we have been reading about in the past few weeks . |