Example sentences of "we have been [verb] to " 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 | A crucial assumption of the kinds of statistical calculations we have been referring to is that the sample has been randomly drawn from some population . |
| 3 | But I wish it had n't been tonight , for tonight we have been invited to Gemma 's house for supper . |
| 4 | The inward grace is that we have been born to a new relationship with God . |
| 5 | If we have been outplayed to any degree in the last year , the opposition scores goals and wins . |
| 6 | The world is in turmoil with civil strife and stress ; as Christ 's followers , we have been called to be peacemakers , and so we pray for peace in God 's world . |
| 7 | We have been preached to by film stars and eastern gurus ; by so called fitness experts and by celebrities who want to tell us how to maintain youthful looks . |
| 8 | We have been referred to Hunter v. Walters ( 1871 ) L.R. 7 Ch.App. 75 ; National Provincial Bank of England v. Jackson ( 1886 ) 33 Ch.D. 1 ; King v. Smith [ 1900 ] 2 Ch. 425 and Gallie v. Lee [ 1971 ] A.C. 1004 . |
| 9 | We have been referred to those authorities . |
| 10 | We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons . |
| 11 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 12 | We have been talking to the horse , stroking it , and trying to reassure it . |
| 13 | We have been thought to be ‘ ignorant of the nature of spirits ’ , he says , because we have no ‘ idea ’ of spirit . |
| 14 | In the years we have been going to the Arctic ( at least one summer and one winter trip now for as long as I can remember ) , we have acquired odd niggles . |
| 15 | Speaking after BSAD 's national junior swimming championships , Mr O'Connor said : ‘ We have been coming to Darlington for eight years now and I can honestly say it gets better every time . |
| 16 | ‘ We have been brought to our present position by the policy and behaviour of the South African Rugby Board , ’ he said . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ Following the closure of Swan Hunter 's , the government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we have been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 18 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 19 | We have been travelling to China every three or four years since 1971 . |
| 20 | Yet we have been programmed to be curious , to question , to probe and to seek to solve riddles . |
| 21 | In some areas the new standard might differ markedly from that we have been used to in Britain . |