Example sentences of "that we have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories . |
| 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 | This way of thinking has to be one of the blinder alleys that we have been led up by psychoanalysis . |
| 4 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 5 | Sometimes we feel we have been deeply asleep and at others we recall that we have been dreaming . |
| 6 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 7 | Indeed , we make an effort not to use the phrase for a number of reasons , one of which is that we have been unable to figure out what it means ’ . |
| 8 | It does not mean that we have been made righteous as if we are perfect and free from sin , because our daily experience will tell us of the power of sin ; but it does mean that we are declared righteous . |
| 9 | I will be arguing in this address that we have been as guilty as many other sections of our community in treating it too lightly , or in putting it lower down in our order of priorities than it ought to be ; but it has never been entirely absent from Christian thought or theology . |
| 10 | The drama for women , of course , is that we have been encouraged to become dependent and hold others in dependent relationships and have rarely sought to differentiate : womens ' groups can be as tyrannical as any other when they do not allow diversity and disagreement . |
| 11 | ‘ It is a sad fact of life that we have been fortunate enough to recruit staff with even greater levels of excellence , ’ says the company 's diplomatic chief executive , Michael Kerr-Dineen . |
| 12 | During this election , I think that we have been particularly ill served by the star interviewers . |
| 13 | Now that we have been offered the choice and the opportunity to buy produce that has n't been sprayed or hybridised , it does seem reasonable to expect that flavour will return . |
| 14 | However , as we become more emotionally mature , we begin to see that we have been hurt by the inconsistencies of our parents . |
| 15 | we beg to state that we have been guided not by mere aesthetic reasons only , but our opinions are based upon the observance by the competitors of the instructions furnished for their guidance , together with the general disposition and arrangement of the plans , the practicability of the designs in a structural point of view , and their capability of convenient application to the public service . |
| 16 | Epictetus said that we have been placed in a festival and we must enjoy it and be full of delight in it . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The main reasons for writing to the Lancet are frustration that we have been discredited , that our grants depend on this work and also that all the evidence is in writing . ’ |
| 19 | Let us assume that we have been more careful and not leapt before we looked . |
| 20 | ‘ Mr deputy mayor I am pleased to say that we have been successful ’ , said the proposer . |
| 21 | The inward grace is that we have been born to a new relationship with God . |
| 22 | Where it is forgotten that we have been forgiven , little love is shown . |
| 23 | ‘ So now that we have been here almost three months , ’ Mrs Carson said , ‘ what do you think of New York , Ruth ? ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I feel that we have been working together for much longer , ’ says Sandra , ‘ because even when we had our own businesses we would ring each other up for advice . |
| 26 | At a consultation you will be able to assess for yourself the excellent facilities that we have been able to develop ( with the assistance of the Area Health Authority ) specifically for patients seeking improvement through cosmetic surgery . |
| 27 | ‘ This means that we have been able to deal with the cash position , which earlier in the year had reached crisis proportions . |
| 28 | Well , I can report on that front that we have been offered the opportunity to secure a few locomotives ( one has already been given to us ) , and a number of pieces of rolling stock . |
| 29 | I am delighted that we have been able to present Embassy with what I consider to have been our best tournament yet . |
| 30 | But all these things that we have been discussing — rediscoveries in the history of art , changes in taste , etc — all this makes me wonder . |