Example sentences of "we [vb base] [be] [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm another s source of energy we 've been considering is th is , is a tidal barrage across the Severn and erm you probably recognize this as a , as a map of the Severn Estuary er er and if you did n't it says the Severn Estuary in big letters er across the er the bottom |
| 2 | The other source of energy we 've been considering is wind power . |
| 3 | But at times it 's been hard to ignore that sinking feeling that what we 've been witnessing is another case of gradual rock'n'roll suicide , that what we 're about to experience is the possible self-destruction of not just one individual but a whole band . |
| 4 | So what we 've been doing is we 've been taking words and we 've been changing their appearance . |
| 5 | The campaigns that we have been conducting are moving in that direction because special constables have a particularly valuable part to play . |
| 6 | The counter-evidence that we have been considering is , in a sense , defined away . |
| 7 | The comrades we have been teaching are very pleasant , but a bit more reticent than elsewhere — the people at Peking and Sian got round to calling us by our first names , but here it 's ‘ miss ’ and ‘ Professor ’ ( or , to give my name in Chinese ) . |
| 8 | The strange invariant set that we have been discussing is very similar to Smale 's horseshoe example , introduced in his seminal ( 1967 ) paper . |
| 9 | Observe that the sorts of inferences we have been discussing are not sanctioned by the form of language used . |
| 10 | Perhaps the mistake we have been making is in applying that thinking to the Moslems but not to the Copts . ’ |