Example sentences of "have been discussing the [noun sg] of " 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 | Throughout the winter and into the spring , the home-affairs committee of the House of Commons has been discussing the future of the levy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Previously he had been discussing the case of charging a trust on a debtor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We 've been discussing the release of the three British hostages . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |