Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | The period of calm after the year-end 1992 figures were out of the way and digested ended with a bang this week as Wall Street woke up to what we have been flagging over the past month — that estimates for IBM Corp 's first quarter performance were far too high , and that virtually no business was being done . |
| 2 | All of chemistry now basically is becoming explicable in terms of quantum theory … we are getting , have been getting in the past 20 years , into the age where a sizeable amount of basic chemistry can now be properly understood from basic quantum theory . |
| 3 | At a Sept. 5 news conference Afewerki accused France , Egypt and Saudi Arabia of fostering " conflict on the borders and the blackmail we have been facing during the past three months " . |
| 4 | As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country . |
| 5 | Love admits it will be very difficult for the players , who will be taking on opposition coming to the end of their season and in weather which will be completely different to what most of them have been experiencing over the past six months , though not to captain Bruce Russell , Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , who have spent the winter playing overseas . |
| 6 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |
| 7 | Many manufacturing industries have been destocking during the past few years but now that is slowing down . |
| 8 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 9 | SALES of mistletoe at Christmas have been reducing over the past decade or so . |
| 10 | Applications for undergraduate study in the Department have been increasing over the past few years and are currently four times the number of places available . |
| 11 | The statistics for ’ dangerous occurrences ’ show that they have been increasing during the past few years — so there is no ground for complacency . |
| 12 | Nitrate concentrations in rainwater have been increasing for the past seven years . |
| 13 | I have tried to describe the process of setting the direction for our constituent businesses and the company as a whole , which I and my colleagues have been evolving over the past few years . |
| 14 | Political battle-lines have been hardening for the past three weeks . |
| 15 | ‘ Listen , Piper , first , you have been sleeping for the past hour , and second , I think the Germans are counter attacking . |
| 16 | We have been doing over the past few nights |
| 17 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 18 | Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago . |
| 19 | Academic results have been plummeting over the past decade , thanks largely to the expansion of the underclass and the influx of non-English-speaking immigrants . |