Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some return to the surface with scars on their snouts which suggest that they have been battling with creatures possessing suckers 13 centimetres across , and squid beaks even bigger than that of the Norwegian giant have been found in their stomachs . |
| 2 | It might help you to know that I have been writing down my dreams on waking , an accepted practice , I believe , in some circles , and perhaps of more use in my case than in some as I am by profession a writer . |
| 3 | Your patience is appreciated and we apologise if we have been overpaying you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I trust that you have been reading my peerless prose this lovely morning . ’ |
| 6 | He says that they have been using the shaft for dumping substances . |
| 7 | In addition to normal responsibilities , which include making new investments , approaching new potential customers and keeping existing customers happy , Mr Queen says that they have been trying to educate the professional community to recognise when a company is going to need more working capital . |
| 8 | The statistics for ’ dangerous occurrences ’ show that they have been increasing during the past few years — so there is no ground for complacency . |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West ( Mr. Randall ) assumes that I have been sitting drinking cups of coffee and not talking to people about the issues . |
| 10 | You may feel that we have been exaggerating about the goodies we like to consume causing us shape and health problems . |
| 11 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 12 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |
| 13 | The kind of imprinting that we have been considering so far is called ‘ filial ’ imprinting . |
| 14 | ‘ Although if you read the American papers , you can see that they have been accusing our troops of committing ‘ atrocities ’ in Palestine . |
| 15 | Sometimes we feel we have been deeply asleep and at others we recall that we have been dreaming . |
| 16 | This may occur if you have been playing a game or using a program that has somehow corrupted your system files . |
| 17 | So Iraq has now formally asked the Turks to shorten the cut-off period but the Turks reply that they have been releasing more water down the river and the Iraquis should have been able to build up stocks . |
| 18 | The research-oriented approach to teaching that I have been proposing here obviously sets a high premium on teacher preparation , and that in turn raises the issues of the education and training of teachers . |
| 19 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 20 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 21 | ( a ) Spouses living together There is no charge to capital gains tax on a transfer of assets between husband and wife provided that they have been living together in the year of assessment in which the transfer takes place ( Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 ) ( " TCGA 1992 " ) , s58 . |
| 22 | Without defining ethics , they believe that we have been acting unethically : they describe a typical case in which elective ventilation might be considered — a patient with a clearly diagnosed fatal cerebral injury who undergoes respiratory arrest . |
| 23 | ‘ I feel that we have been working together for much longer , ’ says Sandra , ‘ because even when we had our own businesses we would ring each other up for advice . |
| 24 | It is very hard to fight like I have been doing these last few months . |
| 25 | aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month |
| 26 | I might mention that I have been using these movements since the commencement of my business in 1983 , with outstanding performance both as to accuracy and reliability . |
| 27 | I ask because I have been throwing out a raft of old notebooks and discovered some scrawled lines from years ago about the open air factor . |
| 28 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 29 | We do n't really know a lot about how much sediment load they 've been carrying because we have been measuring the amount of material being carried by Sussex rivers for the last decade to two decades , so our level of information is very , very low . |
| 30 | To maintain motivation and strengthen will-power you can use simple , practical aids to monitor progress and highlight the changes that have happened while you have been losing weight . |