Example sentences of "have been talking [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |
| 6 | The aspects of energy that we have been talking about this evening erm are part of your course , are they discussed in this form by the students taking your course ? |
| 7 | I have been talking to one or two members of s staff at a fairly low level over the last week . |
| 8 | 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 . |