Example sentences of "we have [adv] been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The domination of the cinema screen over the audience has also resulted in experiments with ‘ smell-o-vision ’ , but so far we have thankfully been spared Aldous Huxley 's vision of ‘ the feelies ’ . |
| 2 | Driver explained that ‘ we have effectively been prompted by our supplier , who has warned us that we had better wean people off it . |
| 3 | Langford and Williams ' work with renowned listed pubs since 1987 puts the company in a favourable light with conservation societies such as The Victorian Society , SPAB , and the Georgian Group ; we have even been known to win a few CAMRA awards yet at the same time the firm has also brazenly converted redundant pubs to café-bar concepts . |
| 4 | We have already been warned by the white rose left in our chamber . |
| 5 | It is the purpose of this paper to explore these questions through a detailed examination of the two units to which we have already been introduced . |
| 6 | For the moment we move forward believing that we are going in a direction to which we have already been prompted , and in the confidence that the holy spirit is working among us . |
| 7 | ‘ This year we have already been told the reason we have had three surges higher than anticipated was because of the bath-tub effect from closing the Thames barrier , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ We did feel concerned at first , but we have since been reassured that the chances of Andrew catching TB are extremely remote , ’ said Mr Morrison . |
| 9 | We have kindly been invited to visit the Craven Arms and District Model Railways Society ( CADMRS ) for a demonstration of their activities , at 7.30 p.m. on Friday 10th May 1991 at their club house in Craven Arms . |
| 10 | We have kindly been provided with a VHS copy of the above stock footage by ART films with regard to an educational non-broadcast video entitled Project Video which we are currently filming and which will be for use in teaching English as a foreign language to secondary school age students throughout the world . |
| 11 | We have also been influenced by representations about the position of privately owned companies held on discretionary trusts . |
| 12 | ‘ We have also been given assurances that there will be a cordon of police both inside and outside a perimeter fence which surrounds the playing area . ’ |
| 13 | So , at one and the same time , we have been provided with a new characterisation of the British party system that challenges the cogency of the responsible party government model , and we have also been provided with an explanation for economic policy-making and for the decline of Britain 's economy . |
| 14 | We have also been advised by the Department of the Environment that the trackbed between Comber and Dundonald , in its entirety — not just the portion in the Ards Council area , is to be offered for sale in the near future . |
| 15 | We have also been offered the opportunity to have a former L.M.S . |
| 16 | To be fair we have also been offered the chance of revising articles which attracted substantial justifiable criticism . |
| 17 | We have just been advised that the study of the proposed L.R.T. system has now been completed , and that this has resulted in a proposal that the L.R.T. lines will only extend as far as Dundonald . |
| 18 | For example , we want to be able to take knowledge gained from studying the free recall of nonsense syllables and make predictions about our ability to remember things like telephone numbers , or the names of people we have just been introduced to at parties . |
| 19 | We have just been informed by Mr R. Warner of Photomatic Limited that the business ceased in August 1991 , but he has made arrangements with another company to carry on the photo-printing of Litho copies . |
| 20 | Dr Topping commented that : " So far we have largely been engaged in a scientific exercise to see how the world as a whole will be affected by global warming . |
| 21 | ‘ And yes , of course I wish to marry you , and do you think , my dearest love , that , as Matey would say , we have both been struck by the asylum mop , we are carrying on so wildly , and shall I ever be sane again ? |
| 22 | Certainly there are differences , especially in the better development of marine sediments in the American Pennsylvanian , but these in a way have obscured the resemblances ; for work in America has concentrated on the marine fossils , whereas in Europe we have usually been forced to fall back on the non-marine faunas and floras . |
| 23 | In the UK off-trade , we have consistently been voted number one for customer service in industry surveys . |
| 24 | Graham Sharpe , spokesman for Hills , who cut the second favourite , Double Dutch , from 7-1 to 6-1 and Royal Square from 16-1 to 10-1 yesterday , countered by saying : ‘ We have often been criticised for including in our ante-post lists horses that trainers later said were never intended runners . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ We have often been accused that the rats are coming from the allotments but that is no longer the case . ’ |
| 26 | We have long been committed Europeans , believing that Britain can only be secure , successful and environmentally safe if we play our full part in building a more united and democratic Europe . |
| 27 | I am disappointed that we have still been given no sign that the means necessary to contain violence and to disrupt the command and control structure of the IRA are about to be implemented . |
| 28 | ‘ We have therefore been driven to the conclusion that the court has power to , and should , intervene , ’ he said . |
| 29 | We have occasionally been asked for more news of , and items of particular interest to , UCN and external graduates . |
| 30 | We have always had a middle range approach ( in Merton 's sense ) at — though we have always been weighted to social institutions and the applied end . |