Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children on the streets of developing countries have been doing it for years . |
| 2 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |
| 3 | Washington seems content to let the United Nations disband the Contras , but Mr Pickering and other US officials have been linking it to the disbanding of the FMLN , without explicitly making it a condition for Washington 's cooperation . |
| 4 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 5 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 6 | Women have been doing it for years . |
| 7 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
| 8 | Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes . |