Example sentences of "we have been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we have been made children of God ; we carry the family likeness through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit ; we want to live so as to please our Heavenly Father ; and we enjoy his Fatherly protection and generous provision . |
| 2 | ‘ What pleases me is the fact that we have been creating chances and I personally feel it will only be a matter of time before we get it right . ’ |
| 3 | In the preceding two chapters we have been developing ways in which questions of locale and locality can be systematically introduced into social theory . |
| 4 | Production finished at the end of May and since then , as you know , we have been moving broadlooms to Elderslie and some narrow looms to Runcorn . |
| 5 | For the last 60 years we have been organising holidays to Italy , and only to Italy . |
| 6 | In England , we have been taking steps through the Housing Corporation to increase the accountability of housing associations to their tenants by , for example , promoting tenant membership of management committees , and by requiring management committees to consult much more effectively . |
| 7 | ‘ We have been evaluating SuperSparc capabilities for high-performance commercial application environments , and we are impressed with the results , ’ said Andrew Roberts , managing director of ICL 's mid-range systems division . |
| 8 | Erm we have been monitoring land availability since about nineteen eighty nine , nineteen ninety and our records for Ryedale show that there are approximately fifty hectares available . |
| 9 | Whereas until now we have been considering changes that are forming an underclass , we now turn to examine a reform already enacted that will ensure that the underclass , and other vulnerable groups , continue to be the least privileged in old age . |
| 10 | ‘ We have been telling people children should n't play with matches for years but the message is n't getting across . |
| 11 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 12 | It is clear that the majority of students entering higher education on the basis of non-traditional qualifications are mature students , and the research which we have been discussing deals almost exclusively with students who are not just non-traditional entrants but also mature . |
| 13 | So far we have been discussing behaviour within groups . |
| 14 | We have been recycling rhodium and platinum for some leading car makers for years , without any of the environmental problems associated with nuclear waste . |
| 15 | ‘ We have been given reassurances that the water is safe to drink and it was just the long hot summer but we are not so sure . |
| 16 | We have been drawing attention to the defects of the Labour party campaign , and I shall give just one example . |
| 17 | ‘ We have been controlling games but still conceding goals and I do n't know why . |
| 18 | We have been granted city status , the Polytechnic is to become a university and Sunderland are on their way to Wembley . |
| 19 | We have been talking apples — the rights and concerns of women — while they have been talking oranges — the rights and concerns of fetuses . |
| 20 | More intensely ) We have been spinning coins together since — ( He releases him almost as violently . ) |
| 21 | We have been spinning coins together since I do n't know when , and in all that time ( if it is all that time ) I do n't suppose either of us was more than a couple of gold pieces up or down . |
| 22 | FOR almost a quarter of a century we have been keeping records of farm fatalities . |
| 23 | The United Kingdom has quite as much skill and technical resources as France , yet we have been worsted time and again by the French in the field of space , simply because the French have a centrally directed , planned , national space programme and we have not . |
| 24 | Although we have been playing teams which have been going through crap periods , I think this has worked against us as all the opposition players and fans etc have been desperate for some sort of result . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman may already have guessed that we have been pressing others to play their part in the important work in which the United Nations is engaged . |
| 26 | After all we have been working examples like this since age seven or so . |
| 27 | Coun Carr told the policy and resources meeting , which set a tax of £353 : ‘ We have been short-changed £800,000 by the Government and that has inevitably had an effect on the level of the charge . |
| 28 | ‘ I also want to point out we have been refused access to the match referee 's and umpires ’ reports as to the reasons for the change of ball on August 23 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In we 've had a menopause clinic in Glasgow for the last twenty four years erm , it 's run by a male doctor erm but we have been treating patients for that length time . |