Example sentences of "we have [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ If you could make contact with Bell , it might give us an in we 've never been able — ’ |
| 32 | Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 33 | We 've actually been successful in that again because we 've got , last year I think we got six thousand pounds , and this year we 've been told we can have eighty percent of the same again . |
| 34 | To our disbelief it was really very much more abundant than we could ever have thought possible , so we 've actually been able to find molecules with eleven carbon atoms in a chain , floating around in space , and for which we really at the present time have no explanation . |
| 35 | My brother , sister and I have made lots of friends whilst we have been down there , but it only really started to fascinate us from about 2 or 3 years ago , before then we had just been interested in swimming , going into the amusements and going to the beach etc . |
| 36 | We had both been convinced that the biopsy results would be benign . |
| 37 | We had never been able to afford to go on holidays — Dad had had to work all the time — so school holidays had been spent at home . |
| 38 | Despite pressure to reformulate Kaliber as a low-alcohol brand , we had always been convinced that the consumer wanted a quality product with a clear no-alcohol identity — and our market research supported that view . |
| 39 | Pat Wells describes the attack : ‘ This was our first readiness at Malta and whilst sitting in the crew room were astonished to hear the air-raid sirens howling — in the U.K. we had always been airborne before the sirens sounded . |
| 40 | We had ne'er been broken-hearted . |
| 41 | Although not implausible , these suggestions were not substantiated by any solid evidence , and we had therefore been reluctant to accord them credence . |
| 42 | However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control . |
| 43 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 44 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 45 | The collector , then , will always examine the evidence that his book is complete in every respect and , as well as all the trimmings with which we have temporarily been preoccupied , will carefully test the completeness of the text itself . |
| 46 | We have intentionally been cautious in our Taipei sale , only including a small selection of the contemporary paintings ’ . |
| 47 | We have also been grateful for the messages of sympathy from people who did not know Paul but were moved by the manner of his death . |
| 48 | We have also been involved in the trips made by the Prince of Wales to promote British industry abroad , most recently in Hong Kong , Korea and Mexico . |
| 49 | As well as North sea oil , we have also been fortunate enough to discover gas in the North sea . |
| 50 | We have also been impressed by the independent influence of family relationships over the generations , an approach which has been brought home to us through discussion with family therapists . |
| 51 | In the past we have also been able to show off our own fairytale Princess — the Americans worshipped Diana for her beauty and commitment to motherhood . |
| 52 | ‘ We have also been able to provide dedicated space for Daniel Rodgers , our Mortgage Consultant , who is able to offer free and professional advice on all financial aspects of a move . |
| 53 | We have also been concerned with locating patterns of change in relation to the social variables of sex and network , in particular . |
| 54 | What we do see is the tremendous transformation by the newer media of society , communication and recreational habits , a huge impact we have often been slow to recognize . |
| 55 | These two people had enacted what we have long been accustomed to think of as a romantic programme , whereby love and death converge , and dying young is the thing to do , whereby other people , and common life , are a thing to be escaped from , and a tension develops between the duty to a partner and a cultivation of the self , between the dictates of an amour fou and an amour de soi . |
| 56 | We have hardly been alone in this . |
| 57 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 58 | We have always been such witnesses and such representatives . ’ |
| 59 | We have always been successful with branded sales in Norway and success is now being achieved in Spain and Belgium . |
| 60 | In the past where fee disputes have arisen following an M&A engagement we have always been able to establish our position to the lawyers ' satisfaction as a result of a clear and comprehensive engagement letter agreed to in writing by the client . |