Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be talk [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The Queen has been talking to prime ministers every week since the early fifties : when it comes to practical experience , she is better placed to give advice than her own advisers . |
2 | An eighty five year old man who was beaten up and robbed at knifepoint at his home has been talking about his ordeal . |
3 | GMB union official Mary Kenny said today ‘ Management have been talking about measures like pay cuts but we never expected anything like this . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I know the mental health on th on the health service side are facing the same problems and I was wondering to what extent the director had been talking to the District Health Authority on , on those lines . |
6 | Alright , and I 'll talk about , well , the lesson finishes at twelve , so if you have about a quarter of an hour , twenty minutes on that , then what I want each group to have someone who will report back on what the group 's been talking about in the next twenty minutes or so . |
7 | Mama 's been talking of sugar beet . ’ |
8 | The victim of a vicious assault has been talking about the attack which left him unconscious and with a broken jaw . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | A sixty seven year old woman who was raped as she returned home from church on Christmas day has been talking about her horrifying ordeal . |
11 | ‘ 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 . |
12 | A great deal of rubbish has been talked about the seasoning of timber by craftsmen and by romantic but ignorant amateurs . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
15 | A woman had been talking to him , but she had gone away . |
16 | The Home Secretary has been talking to Peter Murphy about the siege and the efforts to end it . |
17 | ‘ I can see that your uncle has been talking to you about us , ’ Sophie said drily , ‘ but you do n't understand . |
18 | According to last week 's gossip , Sparc licencees Fujitsu Ltd and LSI Logic have been talking to DEC about Alpha ( UX No 385 ) . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | A man whose house was twice hit by lightning in a fortnight has been talking about the experience , which bookmakers say is a two-billion-to one-chance … |
21 | A front panel has been talked about but nothing practical has been mentioned . |
22 | That looks pricey , missing both the personal computer and sub-$5,000 price points the company has been talking about , even if it does offer more floating point performance than Intel Corp 's high-end 486DX-50 chip . |
23 | He immediately saw what the ferrymaster had been talking about . |
24 | Conversation had started up among the customers in the tavern again , although two had left while the company had been talking amongst themselves . |
25 | Surprise , the raid had been talked about in Waco for days . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | He guessed at once that his son had been talking to Yuan , and even though the casual disclosure of information had been prearranged , he regretted the unavoidability of the confrontation which was about to occur . |