Example sentences of "have been discuss the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Shahal , moreover , has been discussing the creation of a Palestinian police force for the West Bank and Gaza .
2 I mean , QP has been discussing the Accommodation Problem for the whole of my lifetime .
3 Throughout the winter and into the spring , the home-affairs committee of the House of Commons has been discussing the future of the levy .
4 The result is in line with Roberts , and is consistent with the decision if not the reasoning in Spratt , where the court seems to have been discussing the nature of recklessness , not whether there had to be mens rea as to the occasioning of actual bodily harm .
5 Bernice 's mind was suddenly filled with a vivid memory : she was almost reliving the moment when she and the Doctor had been discussing the difficulty of tampering with the TARDIS .
6 Mr Hirst added that Hilton had been discussing the possibility of moving into India and had already evaluated properties in Delhi and Bombay with the aim of a management contract with a small amount of equity .
7 Sarah told her that her father and John had been discussing the possibility of war with Germany , but they had hastily changed the subject when her mother came in .
8 ‘ They had been discussing the idea that a pet should be for life not just for Christmas and decided to take the idea a step further , ’ she said .
9 Previously he had been discussing the case of charging a trust on a debtor .
10 She , her husband and Byron had been discussing the principal of life and wondered if a living thing could be re-animated before Shelley had the idea of writing a book on this theme .
11 ‘ Did you want me , Myra ? ’ she asked as calmly as if they had been discussing the weather and not within an ace of making either love or war .
12 Victoria Hernandez , telecommunications analyst for InfoCorp Europe , Paris , said the French and Swiss operators had been discussing the agreement for some time , trying to iron out the administrative problems involved .
13 For months Weatherbury people had been discussing the party that Mr Boldwood was going to give just before Christmas , and now the day had finally arrived .
14 We 've been discussing the release of the three British hostages .
15 In addition to the note I gave you about the AO Development course , we 've been discussing the range of courses available , and we 've come up with the following ‘ wants list ’ .
16 It 's dark , cold and pouring with rain as I leave the office of E. and B. Productions where I 've been discussing the pantomime orchestra with Paul , the company musical director .
17 Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc have been discussing the possibility of a merger between the two companies according to the San Jose Mercury News Apple declined to comment on the report , and Novell denied it , saying that ‘ We 're always in industry discussions with them , but we 're not having discussions with them about merging , ’ but the paper says that the talks between Apple chairman John Sculley and Novell chairman Ray Noorda were a closely-guarded secret and known only by an elite group of senior executives at the two firms .
18 A number of US companies have been discussing the possibility of a sale with Piper , which has all but stopped production because of cash flow problems .
19 We have been discussing the DLA scheme , which is good in principle .
20 The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers .
21 The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers .
22 Of course , we have been discussing the problem in a very abstract manner , in both the state-owned and the state-regulated cases .
23 Councils have been discussing the proposal since a meeting last year with transport undersecretary Patrick McLoughlin .
24 We have been discussing The Outsider by Camus .
25 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 . ’
26 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 ’ .
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