Example sentences of "have [be] think [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later I have been thinking over what Dad said . |
| 2 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 3 | They have been thinking about the long-term future and have concluded that it will be very difficult to impose nuclear weapons on a population that is generally opposed to them . |
| 4 | ‘ So you have been thinking about them . |
| 5 | I feel it sums up many of the issues we have been thinking about recently … ’ |
| 6 | Wilkinson admitted : ‘ I am keeping all my options open and I have been thinking about whether I should play Rocastle . |
| 7 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 8 | I keep rehearsing that low brace that I have been thinking about ever since we set a date for our attempt . |
| 9 | I have been thinking about that riddle . |
| 10 | Message : I have been thinking about your suggestion that we do not charge for ABI when we re-launch on 21st July . |
| 11 | ‘ But I have been thinking about taking a course , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Well I think there 's a difficulty here because I think one of the questions is a matter of perspective erm how do you define how you define what sexual harassment is is to an extent a factor of your perspective on the question in that I think that tutors who have been thinking about it in recent years , and women tutors , who have taken the lead in it , have tended to think about the implications from the institutional perspective , that is how do tutors behave to their students and in what ways may that affect students ' studies and their live in the college . |
| 13 | For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge . |
| 14 | Axelrod 's programs are an excellent model for the way we , throughout the book , have been thinking of animals and plants , and indeed of genes . |
| 15 | I really do think that there is a degree of inconsistency in compelling a Gothic architect to erect a classical building — and so I have been thinking of appointing you a coadjutor , who would in fact make the design ! |
| 16 | For some time I have been thinking of increasing it to £50pa but have n't got to the bank with this weather . |
| 17 | We have been thinking of changing the name of the office from " Women and Minors " to " Minors " only . |
| 18 | For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house . |
| 19 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
| 20 | So tidy minds in the West have been thinking of ways to keep the process under control . |
| 21 | And John and I have been thinking of the worst possible situation that they could have . |
| 22 | If the responses are to be analysed without a great deal of trouble it is probable that the likely answers have been thought of beforehand and that certain likely response categories are already incorporated in the schedule itself . |
| 23 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 24 | We have been thought to be ‘ ignorant of the nature of spirits ’ , he says , because we have no ‘ idea ’ of spirit . |
| 25 | In order to change the understanding of women , or enlarge the conception as to what is to be considered authentically female , we should have to apply what have been thought to be characteristically male attributes to a female symbol . |