Example sentences of "have been talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been talking with our legal adviser about these . |
| 2 | Interestingly , some of the relatively up-market brands of spirits — The Macallan , Glenmorangie — have been talking at length recently in their print ads . |
| 3 | People have been talking about finding ‘ one voice ’ for the industry for many years . |
| 4 | Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’ |
| 5 | People have been talking about the need for a ‘ killer application ’ and this is it . ’ |
| 6 | The reader may well ask what I have been talking about hitherto . |
| 7 | Sometimes in this chapter we have been talking about processes , sometimes about artists . |
| 8 | I have been talking about experiences which affect both men and women ; what I am suggesting is that the role of the Weaving Mother is to spin a thread , a bond , from the ‘ raw material ’ proffered by the male . |
| 9 | In all of these discussions we have been talking about lifeforms as physical entities — creatures who , like ourselves , have bodies . |
| 10 | First , in the case of the ideal black hole we have been talking about , our spaceship and its crew might indeed travel to the far end of the Universe — but in the form of a spray of raw energy . |
| 11 | We have been talking about electrons but obviously exactly similar considerations of indistinguishability apply to all kinds of identical particles in the quantum world . |
| 12 | So far we have been talking about the flow of information from the company , but It can be equally important for management to receive information on how the world is thinking about the company and its activities , about rival companies and about the industry in which it operates . |
| 13 | erm , moving on , erm audio description in Scotland , no er since this , the last meeting , yes Cath and I have been talking about all that money , we had an entertaining day out |
| 14 | Prior to extract ( 11 ) , the participants , L ( female , 20+ , unmarried , Edinburgh-resident , and M ( female , 30+ , married with young children , Edinburgh-resident ) , have been talking about recent improvements to old buildings in different areas in Edinburgh . |
| 15 | So far we have been talking about the reciprocity of all discourse in the broadest of terms , connecting it to the mechanisms of dialogue only generally by saying that monologues are often constructed with the receiver in mind . |
| 16 | If a company provides a service to the kind of employee which we have been talking about , and the company subsidises that service , the benefit assessable on the employee is the cost to the employer of providing that service . |
| 17 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 18 | I have been talking about the different levels at which reason operates in relation to individual disciplines : we can take up stances within disciplines , across disciplines , and in being critical of disciplines as a whole . |
| 19 | I 'm sure that over the years , you 'll have er , gone through some of the experiences that Madeline and I have been talking about over the last five minutes . |
| 20 | Figure 3.1 shows the joint variation of the two properties we have been talking about , and , of course , the possible values which any unit can take . |
| 21 | Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear . |
| 22 | Advertising revenue seems to be , there seems to be sometimes that there is some slight pick up , the advertising associations predicting a pick up there , one or two companies who have been reporting , have been talking about a little upturn in the first quarter of this year . |
| 23 | But the range and breadth of coverage I have been talking about can not be done within the existing confines of Radio 4 . |
| 24 | What we have been talking about in economies and logistics support is reducing the amount of second line base facilities for this aeroplane . |
| 25 | Alright , so there 's this interest in what women talk about when they 're by themselves and when Martha comes down , she wants to know what the men have been talking about as well . |
| 26 | The two have been talking about the refurbishment since 1984 . |
| 27 | And today staff and patients have been talking about their victory over the health service bureaucrats : |
| 28 | The RAF crews who are flying aid into Bosnia have been talking about the dangers they face . |
| 29 | GMB union official Mary Kenny said today ‘ Management have been talking about measures like pay cuts but we never expected anything like this . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |