Example sentences of "has [be] with we [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Miss Sowerby , ’ Reid explained , ‘ has been with us for several years . |
| 2 | Of course the phenomenological approach has been with us for a long time , and has been the primary source of evidence in the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 3 | Well we all know from our own history books that fire has been with us for a long long time has n't it ? |
| 4 | It has been with us for the past 10 years . |
| 5 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 6 | Mr Chairman , the traffic problem has been with us for many years as our village existed before the motor car . |
| 7 | We at Halpern and Woolf believe the recession has been with us for some months already ; the C B I takes the same view and they 're pressing for interest rate reductions now to restore business confidence . |
| 8 | He has been with us since yesterday . |
| 9 | … atmospheric pollution has been with us since the creation ; it became much worse … with the Garden of Eden and infinitely worse following the mechanical ingenuity of James Watt . |
| 10 | She has been with us since 1988 and has played a significant role in the development of CCG 's in-house marketing strategies . |