Example sentences of "have [be] talking " in BNC.
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| 1 | People have been talking about finding ‘ one voice ’ for the industry for many years . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | We have been talking to the horse , stroking it , and trying to reassure it . |
| 4 | Labour have been talking Britain down so hard , relishing every piece of bad news , rubbing their hands at any failure in public services , that they have chosen to forget what a great country Britain really is , ’ said the broadcast . |
| 5 | People have been talking about the need for a ‘ killer application ’ and this is it . ’ |
| 6 | It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience . |
| 7 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
| 8 | I have been talking to colleagues here in Oxford about the use of OALDCE 3/e in one of your hand held devices . |
| 9 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 10 | The record company folk who have been talking Gulf and eating her sarnies leave and Susanna draws up a chair , sits on it cross-legged and starts to play with her hair , twisting it and knitting it . |
| 11 | The reader may well ask what I have been talking about hitherto . |
| 12 | Sometimes in this chapter we have been talking about processes , sometimes about artists . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It 's I who have been talking to her . |
| 15 | I have been talking with our legal adviser about these . |
| 16 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 17 | In all of these discussions we have been talking about lifeforms as physical entities — creatures who , like ourselves , have bodies . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Uniforum and the small Unix Reseller Show , held last week in Dallas to credible reviews , have been talking lately about making Unix Reseller part of Uniforum , an altogether sensible idea . |
| 20 | This time the Americans have been talking to negotiators as often as three times a day , sitting with one side and then another to explore positions on such controversial issues as the disposition of authority over West Bank land . |
| 21 | If characters who have the ability to speak either prose or verse have been talking prose among themselves , or if the medium is prose for some other reason , the entry of a person of rank or status can be the signal for the move to the higher level . |
| 22 | IBM Corp staffers and sources close to the company have been talking to PC Week about the company 's desktop software strategy , the core of which is the common microkernel that is to underlie all of its future offerings . |
| 23 | According to the latest tittle-tattle , Sparc licensees Fujitsu and LSI Logic ( who is into MIPS as well ) have been talking to DEC about Alpha . |
| 24 | According to last week 's gossip , Sparc licencees Fujitsu Ltd and LSI Logic have been talking to DEC about Alpha ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 25 | We have been talking about electrons but obviously exactly similar considerations of indistinguishability apply to all kinds of identical particles in the quantum world . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Interestingly , some of the relatively up-market brands of spirits — The Macallan , Glenmorangie — have been talking at length recently in their print ads . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |