Example sentences of "of us have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , the three of us have been seen as cartoon characters for a number of years . |
| 2 | Indeed , all the millions of cells that make up each one of us have been formed by a process of successive cell divisions , during each of which the 46 chromosomes were first faithfully duplicated , and then separated to form two new daughter cells . |
| 3 | ‘ Neither of us have been made redundant but I am aware of unemployment and its effects . |
| 4 | Erm , but it 's impressive that he now feels we should be allowed to spend more money to create jobs , because of course a lot of us have been trying to point that out for years to the governments which stupidly cap authorities so they ca n't actually carry out the infrastructure improvements that are needed to enable the economy and the society to function properly . |
| 5 | Most of us have been warned about the health risks of high blood pressure ( hypertension ) but few people are aware that in several European countries the opposite condition of low blood pressure ( hypotension ) is regarded as a medical problem . |
| 6 | Most of us have been taught to see the Davy lamp as a scientific advance in that it saved the lives of miners because it would burn without causing explosions in a methane-rich atmosphere . |
| 7 | Most illuminating was the insight offered by a crew member who said , ‘ Most of us have been watching with our tongues hanging out . ’ |
| 8 | In life , no doubt all of us have been inspired by the example of others — parents , teachers , friends . |
| 9 | Many of us have been hurt in relationships , and a frequent form of defence is to bury your feelings . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |
| 11 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
| 12 | But the number-one British favourite , the otter , is both rare and probably the most endearingly anthropomorphic of Britain 's animals , and most of us have been brought up on nostalgic , humanoid depictions of badgers , foxes , hedgehogs , squirrels and owls in our childhood literature . |
| 13 | Most of us have seen formal syntax diagrams and Backus-Naur Form ( BNF ) definitions for languages , and many of us have been found them to be somewhat confusing . |
| 14 | But most of us have been waiting for the results of the Concorde trial . ’ |
| 15 | While alternative venues have been found for Nanci Griffiths ' concerts , the rest of us have been forced to imagine what might have been . |
| 16 | Thousands of us have been laid low already with a flu virus which has surprised the experts by the speed with which it 's hit Scotland . |