Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bush has been having trouble with his speed , no doubt about it . |
| 2 | Doug has been having his paw pulled . |
| 3 | The Japanese would like such a declaration to involve regular summit meetings , perhaps as often as twice a year , between the Japanese prime minister and the Community president — like the informal meetings that Toshiki Kaifu has been having with President Bush . |
| 4 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 5 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 6 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 7 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 8 | The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late . |
| 9 | Mr Frank Sinatra , the popular entertainer , has been having his life chronicled by that fine gazette , the Sunday Mirror . |
| 10 | Ever since Courtney indecently assaulted her at his Harley Street clinic in October last year , the girl known to the jury as Miss C has been having nightmares about the attack . |
| 11 | Senna admitted yesterday after his third win that he has been having talks with Williams . |
| 12 | Coach Intikhab Alam said : ‘ He has been having rest and regular medication and he is most likely to play . ’ |
| 13 | How can you tell when a motorcyclist has been having fun speeding on the motorway ? |
| 14 | ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately . |
| 15 | Siemens AG has been having such a tough time in the former Soviet Union with its nuclear safety and telecommunications projects that it has been cutting back and recalling expatriates early ( CI No 2,043 ) , but Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG does have some work . |
| 16 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 17 | The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields . |
| 18 | DEC , on the other hand , which has been having COSE talks at both the strategic and technical levels , feels there might still be a few loose ends to tie up , some of them perhaps circulating around the ‘ Process Paper ’ that is expected to be made public soon . |
| 19 | For the moment , however , they seem more relevant to Europe , which has been having a spot of bother with its own system of exchange-rate target zones . |
| 20 | DEC , on the other hand , which has been having COSE talks at both the strategic and technical levels , feels there might still be a few loose ends to tie up , some of them perhaps circulating around the ‘ Process Paper ’ expected to be made public soon . |
| 21 | Mr Brown has been having increasing pain and a " dragging " sensation in his right groin . |
| 22 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 23 | MELVYN BRAGG has been having a busy year . |
| 24 | " Did you hear about the trouble the big Michelin plantation as Phu Rieng has been having with " red peril " agitators ? " |
| 25 | And Tim has been having a go of his sinus plus conjunctivitis and something else he describes as angst and is being generally unsupportive . |
| 26 | Not everyone has been having a bad recession , and not everyone believes they must prune radically their investment and marketing budget . |
| 27 | It is precisely to deal with those problems that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has been having so many discussions over the past year . |
| 28 | I have been asked to reply My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been having important discussions today with President Yeltsin , who is on his first visit abroad as President of an independent Russia . |
| 29 | ‘ He has been having a good rest , and by the time the middle of next month comes round when the big money tournaments start , he wo n't be knackered like some of the others . |
| 30 | McCallen has been having problems with the RVF Honda for which he had a new engine during final practice and as a result , his times have not been up to scratch . |