Example sentences of "we have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 2 | The day will divide into a morning session on ‘ Where We Have Been ? ’ , and an afternoon session on ‘ What 's Happening Now ? ’ |
| 3 | After all , we have been reaping rewards from the vegetable garden for months : the soil ca n't go on and on providing if its own storehouse is not replenished . |
| 4 | So far we have been discussing the role of activity in the development of referential thinking , the development of the knowledge that ‘ there is a world out there ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ We are established in many other sports , including the Johnnie Walker Ryder Cup , the RAC Rally , the Silk Cut Derby at Hickstead , the Benson and Hedges Snooker Masters at Wembley , the Volvo European PGA Tour and the British Grand Prix ’ , explains Delahunty , ‘ and although we have been in tennis since 1985 when Stella Artois first commissioned us , I still look at tennis as a growth area . |
| 6 | In the meantime we have been able to develop relationships with companies in the South East who have been very keen to schedule programmes on age issues through their social action programming units . |
| 7 | On the surface of his mind lies the contrast between a trivial though tormenting fear and a monstrous scheme ; and beneath that contrast appears a positive contradiction : for a few sentences earlier we have been told ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ What a strange demand ! ’ says Lebyadkin with an effrontery beyond the man we have been given , though not of course beyond old Karamazov . |
| 9 | But in Eliot 's earlier sentences we have been told of Pound 's serving not ‘ art ’ , but artists ; of his being concerned that they should each realize his or her full potential , so that the level of accomplishment ( in ‘ letters ’ as well as ‘ art ’ ) should be raised all round . |
| 10 | ‘ We have been brought to our present position by the policy and behaviour of the South African Rugby Board , ’ he said . |
| 11 | . I think we have been silent too long , we 've tolerated too much for too long . ’ |
| 12 | We need to do more work at grass-roots level — possibly , we have been a bit lazy in that respect . ’ |
| 13 | WE HAVE been here before . |
| 14 | ‘ Through refining our feed , by leaving things out and seeing what happens , we have been able to define the dietary requirements of the prawn throughout its development . |
| 15 | Things like this should n't really surprise people because we have been telling them about what has been going on Down Under for years . ’ |
| 16 | In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories . |
| 17 | We have been behind before . ’ |
| 18 | Since the summer of last year we have been living with the consequences of Mrs Thatcher 's unreasoned dislike of the ERM . |
| 19 | We have been given the status , resources and expertise to do so — on both sides of the Channel . |
| 20 | We have been through them before . |
| 21 | Their leader , Peter Bancroft , 36 , said : ‘ We have been struggling with British Rail 's shortage of drivers for months and have christened our regular train home the ghost train . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You know , Boyo , this is the start of our fifth day here in Normandy and we have been stuck in these bloody slit trenches having all kinds of shit thrown at us . |
| 23 | ‘ We have been under enemy attack since we arrived here six days ago , with practically no sleep . |
| 24 | There has apparently been some misunderstanding about the future of this Club and we have been asked to reassure members that the Club is continuing and that eligibility remains as before . |
| 25 | Compared with the social services we have been examining , the residue present the institutional problem only in a comparatively mild form . |
| 26 | In Northern Ireland ‘ The Thing ’ eventually unchained some of the other phenomena that we have been discussing here , which are inherently separate : endemic hooliganism ; the breakthrough of the use of the firearm ; and the infinite potential for blocking the formation of antibodies , for blocking the natural reaction of a society to violence , which exists in a divided community . |
| 27 | In the same year , writing of how as good writers ‘ we have not borrowed , we have been quickened , and we become bearers of a tradition ’ , Eliot complains ( before quoting a revoicing of Seneca by Chapman which would be used in ‘ Gerontion ’ ) that in contemporary poetry , ‘ No dead voices speak through the living voice ; no reincarnation , no re-creation . ’ |
| 28 | This way of thinking has to be one of the blinder alleys that we have been led up by psychoanalysis . |
| 29 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 30 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |