Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular . |
| 2 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 3 | Shirley branch has now been trading for 3O years , and to celebrate its birthday a dinner-dance is being held at the Novotel Hotel in Southampton on October 16 . |
| 4 | Pleass has recently been working on a demo tape with producer Mike Moran . |
| 5 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 6 | In further and higher education , the gap has also been declining in recent years . |
| 7 | At this period in time Highlander had also been working on a community health program , the broad aim of which was ; |
| 8 | Opposition parties had also been pressing for an early poll , especially in view of the poor performance by ANAP in local elections since 1989 [ see p. 36528 ] . |
| 9 | Falconer had apparently been playing with the letters of the name , breaking them up , distancing each from the other . |
| 10 | The snow had obviously been falling for hours , probably while she was still watching The Blue Angel . |
| 11 | And yet the end of the Second World War was such a celebration of the defeat of the fascist enemy that there was a failure to grasp the fact that the universal Enemy had merely been rehearsing for Armageddon . |
| 12 | Footnote : NSS readers have apparently been enquiring about the welfare of my cat , Euclid , who , as I reported last week , went missing after the earthquake . |
| 13 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 14 | The first candidates have now been enrolling for the new , operational system , following the successful completion of the pilot phases of the Advanced Courses Development Programme during 1988–90 . |
| 15 | The repatriation of Yugoslavs had now been proceeding for a week . |
| 16 | With this increasingly active role which Highlander was playing in the civil rights movement , it was only a matter of time until the reactionary extremism , which the blacks had long been fighting against , began to be directed at Highlander itself . |
| 17 | Jane had indeed been hinting at the opportunity for her husband 's murder , but she could not admit as much . |
| 18 | The political winds had also been blowing from a different and more conservative direction . |
| 19 | Wordsworth had also been experimenting with blank verse , and with the example of Coleridge 's Frost at Midnight before him , was able to reproduce ‘ the movement of the mind ’ in Tintern Abbey . |
| 20 | Companies have also been looking after their shareholders . |
| 21 | Well I 'll be going up to watch that match that Hugh 's just been talking about . |
| 22 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 23 | Astra has already been talking to officials of the Commons about its planned service , based on the American C-Span cable network , which performs a similar function . |
| 24 | Capitalism had always been baffling to Ceauşescu , now his involvement with it was a curse . |
| 25 | Although in their own eyes the rebels had simply been fighting for what was rightfully theirs , from the point of view of Henry II and Richard they were disturbers of the peace , and as princes maintaining the peace within their dominions , the Angevins could generally rely on the support of the church . |
| 26 | The UKAEA had already been working on two prototypes — a high temperature successor to the AGR ( called the Dragon ) and the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor , another uniquely British concept . |
| 27 | The immigration process had previously been proceeding at a hectic pace following a " family reunification " agreement signed by the two countries in January . |
| 28 | The affected fish had previously been swimming on its head and it spine had become deformed due to its awkward position . |
| 29 | UN officials had reportedly been negotiating with Somali clan leaders to obtain approval for the troops ' dispatch . |
| 30 | Well I 'm certain that if you looked at every post in the City we could certainly save one or two , I do n't think anyone would deny that , but the sort of cases that Queenie 's just been talking about , I think she 's talking absolute nonsense . |