Example sentences of "[pron] we have been [verb] " 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 | It seems to me that however attractive this addendum is , it 's taking us away from the real issue which is about the baptism one which the bishop er also kind of brought up er and which we 've been exercising ourselves over . |
| 4 | It 's like a dream in which we 've been trying to get through to people and we 've represented this by seeing ourselves locked inside our homes , desperately trying to get out . |
| 5 | You ca n't , take your point which we 've been trying to tackle at national account level |
| 6 | Profits are lower and earnings are lower than last year , but cash generation which we 've been working particularly hard on er for the past couple of years er and which we will be talking about further in a minute has come through extremely well er and we produced higher levels of cash this year than at any time in the company 's history . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | JB : It seemed natural that two painters working in the same vicinity with the same painting outlooks should share a studio which we 've been doing now for , how long ? |
| 10 | But then in seventy nine we had a hit at home with Bunch of Time and that as far as we were concerned was the end of the road you know to be successful in Ireland and then late eighty one , early eighty two you know they started playing Bunch of Time over here and it became a top twenty hit for us and that you know changed the whole thing round about and got us from say the pubs in Ireland into the concert circuit in England which we 've been doing ever since . |
| 11 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |
| 12 | In the same way , the ears , which we had been led to believe revealed the horse 's emotions , are not really good indicators of a horse 's feelings on their own . |
| 13 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 14 | The news that Karen and I were married was made public at a buffet brunch given by Thomas and Lynn Carter to which we had been invited — or rather Karen had been invited , and had asked if it would be all right to bring me along . |
| 15 | Reg and I were most vitriolic about the risk to which we had been exposed and hoped that the Germans would be just as inefficient . ’ |
| 16 | what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 … |
| 17 | The servant banished the dogs and threw logs into the great tiled stove before which we had been sitting . |
| 18 | A small hole was dug , the cigarette buried , songs sung over the grave and then the whole procession wended its w ? y round the field four times singing the funeral march from Aida , which we had been practising for a week . |
| 19 | Hamilton greeted him with emotional thanks and immediately surrendered our papers : our little Nansen passport , our Portuguese visa , even the ticket coupon with which we had been issued at the harbour of Salerno . |
| 20 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 21 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |
| 22 | The cultural framework in which we have been raised and within which we have been taught to operate provides both security and significance within its frontiers . |
| 23 | In the remote period of human history which we have been discussing it simply did not exist . |
| 24 | Let us return for a moment to the question of prognosis : what can be the outcome for modern societies of the phenomenon which we have been discussing ? |
| 25 | The result is the phenomenon of externalization which we have been discussing . |
| 26 | It is clear that the majority of students entering higher education on the basis of non-traditional qualifications are mature students , and the research which we have been discussing deals almost exclusively with students who are not just non-traditional entrants but also mature . |
| 27 | But the ways in which we have been asked to look at consumer credit use are hardly relevant to TV rental . |
| 28 | This argument about the policy aspects of regionalism could be extended to cover different theoretical approaches to the basket of problems to which we have been referring . |
| 29 | That is the right way to help people , it is the right way to achieve long-term prosperity for this country and it is the way in which we have been developing our policies . |
| 30 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |