Example sentences of "we have [been] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are , we are debt free , we 've been debt for a long time . |
| 2 | For the last two weeks we 've been sort of fine tuning and now everything 's going to plan . |
| 3 | We had been bottom of the league in the 1960s and 1970s , but our GDP , business investment and manufacturing productivity grew faster during the 1980s than in Germany , France or many other countries . |
| 4 | ‘ We have been progress of the Great Britain Education Bill with a view to ensuring that , as far as possible , parents of children with special educational needs in Northern Ireland enjoy the same rights as those in England and Wales . ’ |
| 5 | We all like to feel we have been witness to something out of the ordinary , preferably unique , and that is why the unprecedented sight of 33 catches in a Test match was titillating . |
| 6 | Of recent British policy , Dulles privately remarked on 6 May 1957 : " It seems to us to have been characteristic of a nation which , realizing that it was weak , felt it had to act as though it was strong " . |