Example sentences of "what [pers pn] have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 2 | What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system , Fodor calls the central systems . |
| 3 | Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’ |
| 4 | The reader may well ask what I have been talking about hitherto . |
| 5 | It 's fascinating and deals with attitude and mind control , using a technique called ‘ visualisation ’ which is more or less what I have been doing with my Knights . |
| 6 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 7 | ‘ This is what I have been waiting for to really make the hotel complete . ’ |
| 8 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 9 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 10 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 11 | Erm I 'd like to refer to my page three or er section four in my conclusions because I think if I if I heard Professor Lock correctly I think he and I are at one in in a suggestion which is is put to you in in if you like without prejudice to the generality of what I have been saying in support of the council 's policy . |
| 12 | The garden resembles what I have been told of Primrose Hill . |
| 13 | That is what I have been told in my surgeries and elsewhere . |
| 14 | ‘ Let me see what you have been doing for us , ’ Charles said smiling widely beneath his white moustache . |
| 15 | That is what you have been doing by lying about the many things you say took place . ’ |
| 16 | Moreover , problems can be like Chinese whispers : the parents may be quite surprised at what you have been told about them and their problems . |
| 17 | This facet of conversational discourse quite naturally leads to a consideration of the individual speaker 's topics within what we have been discussing as the conversational topic . |
| 18 | If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for ! |
| 19 | ‘ By God , ’ he commented , ‘ that is what we have been looking for . ’ |
| 20 | The period of calm after the year-end 1992 figures were out of the way and digested ended with a bang this week as Wall Street woke up to what we have been flagging over the past month — that estimates for IBM Corp 's first quarter performance were far too high , and that virtually no business was being done . |
| 21 | ‘ The seven per cent bank base rate is very good news for the housing market and it is what we have been calling for . |
| 22 | Wall Street yesterday finally woke up to what we have been saying since January — that IBM Corp sets its dividend for one quarter at a time , and that there is no guarantee that the level declared for fourth quarter 1992 will be maintained quarterly this year : market dealers in Europe say a rumour surfaced here yesterday morning that another cut may be coming . |
| 23 | ‘ The only way this is going to end is by political resolution and that is what we have been campaigning for . |
| 24 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 25 | ‘ What we have been doing over the last few weekends is exercising our right to search someone if we have a reasonable belief that they are carrying a weapon , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 26 | I do n't know then what we have been doing for the last four weeks , when we first asked . ’ |
| 27 | It may be that we can learn from computers something of what we have been missing in the game ; or , that chess is so rich , that only a symbiosis between man and machine can explore it adequately . |
| 28 | What we have been talking about in economies and logistics support is reducing the amount of second line base facilities for this aeroplane . |
| 29 | However , although people seem to agree on a hierarchy of symbolic rewards , this apparent consensus is not the sum of people 's personal evaluations regarding the relative importance of different jobs , but a reproduction of what they have been socialised into accepting and which , when asked , they reproduce as though this sort of thing is a matter of fact . |
| 30 | But the united nation they had in mind , when they thought hard about it at all , was probably not what they have been landed with . |