Example sentences of "been talk [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We must ensure that the support materials we prepare for teachers are as closely tied in with the demands of the curriculum as possible , especially with the new 5 – 14 guidelines , and my first priority has been to talk to Educational Advisers throughout Scotland . |
| 2 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 3 | Sorry , I wanted to make two points , I think there 's a big difference between foresters like yourself and the people who 're actually out there logging , and you know , I have no doubt about the work you do at the Oxford Forestry Institute , and several of your tutors and lecturers have been to talk to us , and Friends of the Earth certainly is calling for sustainable management forestry . |
| 4 | What the hell do you think I 've been talkin' about the last few minutes ? |
| 5 | He had been talked into editing the Complete Poems and Plays as early as 1959 , with the blessing of the present Lord Ash , an elderly Methodist peer who was a descendant of a remote cousin of Ash himself and heir to the ownership of the unsold manuscripts . |
| 6 | Marshal Saxe had never been happy about the operation he was to command ; nor was Louis XV , who had been talked into supporting the attempt by his ministers . |
| 7 | It had all been talked about by those involved . |
| 8 | A front panel has been talked about but nothing practical has been mentioned . |
| 9 | Digital networks , in the form of ISDN ( integrated services digital network ) have been talked about for many years , and in mainly technical terms . |
| 10 | A great deal of rubbish has been talked about the seasoning of timber by craftsmen and by romantic but ignorant amateurs . |
| 11 | A link with the literary house Meulenhoff Nederland is one of the possibilities that has been talked about in the Dutch trade . |
| 12 | It 's a challenge that 's been talked about all over world , but who 's going to respond and how ? |
| 13 | She has also worked the other way round , turning The Stand-In into a screenplay ; a film directed by Mike Nichols and starring Anjelica Huston has been talked about — though talk , in Hollywood is not a very reliable omen . |
| 14 | ‘ It is completely novel for a high-street retailer to launch an added-value card like this , through it 's been talked about for some time , ’ says Ian Minors , managing director of Moss Bros agency MHA Direct . |
| 15 | As in the case of Cubism , Apollinaire tried to give the word as much of an all-inclusive meaning as possible : ‘ Orphism has already been talked about a great deal . |
| 16 | We also desperately need to install a safe and economical heating system — this has been talked about for too many years . |
| 17 | Surprise , the raid had been talked about in Waco for days . |
| 18 | If the single European market can be established and made to work as that common market that has been talked about for the past 30 years , it will be a considerable achievement , but it will not be easy . |
| 19 | The new TV channel that has been talked about for a while will be named ‘ The Manchester United channel ’ and will outbid the BBC for the right to be channel no.1 and will have a completely unbiased opinion of football ( just like the BBC ) |
| 20 | This had been talked about by a few experienced bomber squadron commanders , notably Wg Cdrs " Willie " Tait , Charles Whitworth , Syd Bufton and , of course , " Jimmy " Marks who , as bomber pilots . |
| 21 | Some of this information can not be presented er within the timescales that have been talked about er therefore we need , we need some more information on costs and so on . |
| 22 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 23 | The idea of bringing the elderly , disabled and mentally ill out of institutions to live independently in the community has been talked about for almost forty years . |
| 24 | ‘ This has been a subject that has been bubbling around for years and with an ageing population , it is an issue that has n't been talked about enough . ’ |
| 25 | We 're talking about this partly because of the document passed in the ministry in which , everybody has avidly read and erm has been talked about after the seventeenth er , in York in July . |
| 26 | And that has n't been talked about yet . |
| 27 | The record of the peace movement in the 1930s has been a favoured weapon in the arsenal of its opponents ever since , and an astonishing amount of nonsense has been talked on the subject . |
| 28 | In primary school the qualifying exam had been talked of for at least two years before the time came , yet I have no memory of when it did , only that our last term was punctuated with little exams and on two occasions we had something quite new to do : intelligence tests . |
| 29 | It is hardly surprising , therefore , that deposition should be mooted again — it had been talked of in the Gaveston crisis . |
| 30 | At the centre , community care has been talked of for thirty years and in few areas can the gap between political rhetoric and policy on the one hand , or between policy and reality in the field on the other hand , have been so great . |