Example sentences of "[noun] we [vb base] been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as a result we have been treated to the delightful sight of Princess Diana in a variety of stunning swimming costumes . |
| 2 | ‘ The only figure we have been given is of £28,000 which was spent on the cleaning of the graffiti . ’ |
| 3 | In essence we 've been hit by something like a double whammy over the S S As . |
| 4 | FOR months we have been mesmerised by stories of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 5 | But unless we have another child we have been told that we will be in this place until she is 13 . |
| 6 | In the Gospel we have been told that Jesus will bring about a new exodus ( 9:31 ) by his death and resurrection at Jerusalem : a release from a worse bondage and a more terrible death than that which befell the Israelites in Egypt . |
| 7 | ‘ Some of the equipment we have been donated is lifesaving and we would be in a very difficult situation without it . ’ |
| 8 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 9 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 10 | For fourteen years we have been bashed by the Tories , we have been led by a pound of poof T U C and as now it 's time to stand up and be counted . |
| 11 | ‘ In the last four years we have been asked to believe too many coincidences . |
| 12 | But the fact remains that for the last 13 years we have been governed by a party rejected by nearly 60pc of voters . |
| 13 | Additives : In recent years we have been made more aware of the danger of excessive artificial additives in our food and drink . |
| 14 | In the last few years we have been promised ( and in the UK have never actually been given ) ready-made video programmes on EVR , requiring one set of equipment , and on videodisc , requiring another . |
| 15 | The Lord 's Prayer teaches us that we should forgive in the same measure we have been forgiven . |
| 16 | read the following judgment of the court , prepared by Brooke J. In these two cases we have been invited to determine , as preliminary issues , the capacity in which judges of the High Court are acting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court to determine appeals against orders by which barristers are to be disbarred or suspended from practice by their Inns . |
| 17 | ‘ So where are all these bleedin' Germans we 've been told so much about ? ’ |
| 18 | TWICE in 24 hours we 've been shown letters from Ossie Ardiles , written in the week of his barbaric departure . |
| 19 | Some of you have asked about the changes in the current training course We have been forced to cut initial training to four terms . |
| 20 | At all courts up to the present we have been received with extraordinary courtesy . |
| 21 | If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved . |
| 22 | erm , the thing about it is is that I mean , one of we we 've at the minute we 've been faced with with some individuals reckoning that they have er rashes forming around the face er in a number of areas and there 's an indication that , and it 's nothing more than that , that it could actually be to do with the laser printers and people sitting near them in the light . |
| 23 | That 's the fifth time this week we 've been attacked . ’ |
| 24 | Like all other departments we have been established a very long time and therefore have the experience and the knowledge in dealing with lettings . |
| 25 | ‘ What a strange demand ! ’ says Lebyadkin with an effrontery beyond the man we have been given , though not of course beyond old Karamazov . |
| 26 | But in Eliot 's earlier sentences we have been told of Pound 's serving not ‘ art ’ , but artists ; of his being concerned that they should each realize his or her full potential , so that the level of accomplishment ( in ‘ letters ’ as well as ‘ art ’ ) should be raised all round . |
| 27 | Except for one or two magistrates like Peck we 've been left alone , and have never done anything to trouble those who live around the forest . ’ |
| 28 | ( 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 . |
| 29 | In our approach we have been motivated by what psychologist Carol Gilligan has called an ‘ ethic of care ’ , which resists the subordination of human needs to so-called universal principles of right and wrong . |
| 30 | ‘ We will obviously monitor everything that goes on over the next 12 months ’ , he says ‘ We can only hope that when we do our assessments of need we can support that need with the finances we 've been given . |