Example sentences of "[pron] we [vb base] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards which we 've been striving for weeks . |
| 2 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 3 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 4 | I mean tha , is it all , you know , do we need all the time to have erm extra administrative help and in in , and in terms of which we 've been talking about before , I know they might sound like two conflicting issues but one of the ways of ensuring we get the work done is do we trying too much at the Synod ? |
| 5 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |
| 6 | I remember running on the rolling lawns of Kikuyu grass before dinner , the night noises of the exceptionally vocal African insect life striking up as it quickly grew dark , night unrolling from the ground upwards ; bullfrogs — in fact all manner of rana and bufo-frogs the size of a pair of roiled-up rugby socks , toads with great horned eyebrows , and tiny , reddish , darting amphibians , starting to howl , shriek , growl , and purr , a backdrop to our dinner on the terrace to which we have been summoned by the stirring , thrilling , beating of a gong hung from a pair of tusks . |
| 7 | The the words which we have been given by the product engineer , is that the Department of Transport , and that was his words , committed to this scheme . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend identifies precisely the problem with which we have been landed by the Government and British Rail . |
| 9 | I note that in two of the main authorities to which we have been referred on the substantive issues , Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 and In re Findlay [ 1985 ] A.C. 318 , it seems to have been assumed without argument that this court had jurisdiction . |
| 10 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 11 | This notion is , of course , implicit in the construction of the sets of features of context which we have been considering in this chapter . |
| 12 | If a company provides a service to the kind of employee which we have been talking about , and the company subsidises that service , the benefit assessable on the employee is the cost to the employer of providing that service . |
| 13 | Yet in the 20 or so years during which we have been associated with processions and demonstrations about the A427 , not a single bypass has been built . |
| 14 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 15 | Roughly , the theory claims that ‘ working-class ’ children , those with whom we have been speaking in preparing this study , are suffering from a linguistic and cognitive defect vis-a-vis their ‘ middle-class ’ counterparts . |
| 16 | ‘ This is something we 've been doing for years . |
| 17 | ‘ The scrapping of the tax is something we have been screaming for , ’ says David Austin of Rover dealers H.L Austin and Son . |
| 18 | Notts ' team manager , John Birch , said : ‘ It is something we have been working towards but which would not have been possible without Swithland 's backing . ’ |
| 19 | The one we 've been waiting for ever since we found the Worm . ’ |
| 20 | You are the one we have been waiting for . ’ |
| 21 | since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there ! |
| 22 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 23 | Erm what we 've been looking at is the process of land reform . |
| 24 | Erm what we 've been dealing with on Vienna is dealt with in section forty six reaction and revolution in Europe . |
| 25 | ‘ But that 's what we 've been sent for ; to fetch you back . |
| 26 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 27 | Because they 've come out with a report saying what we 've been saying for the |
| 28 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 29 | Tt er and i in a sense there 's kind of been an upward trend in terms of progression through that , that reform but within that there have obviously been a number of and in a sense what we 've been coming to terms with is , is what has been causing those , those variations , those changes in that policy . |
| 30 | At least that 's what we 've been told by the seat-cover suppliers , Courtaulds Textiles , which produces the terribly natty ‘ Renaissance ’ decor for Rover 's new Metro . |