Example sentences of "we have been [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for too long we 've been misled into believing that manufacturing and industry had become unimportant . |
| 2 | Things like false alarm calls and so on , have been through the courts and we 've been stopped from doing that . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been stopped from coming into the Park because of people throwing paper and things on to the ground . ’ |
| 4 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been criticised for saying that all children under five should have books in the home . |
| 6 | We 've been accused of screwing employers into the ground by our demands . |
| 7 | ‘ Inevitably , in the last few years , we have been pre-occupied with saving our ground . |
| 8 | I belong to a Committee who call themselves Women Against Apartheid , and we have been engaged in campaigning a lot against these marital laws . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) There is a modern attempt to defend what is called objectivism in ethics which turns on viewing both facts and values as essentially social constructs which are what they are because they are either what society drills us into accepting or what exceptional individuals can persuade us follow from the procedures we have been drilled into accepting as correct . |
| 10 | Once we have been triggered into feeling the loss of someone who was important the grieving process is more likely to be able to start . |