Example sentences of "[verb] been have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 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 | MELVYN BRAGG has been having a busy year . |
| 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 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 10 | Not everyone has been having a bad recession , and not everyone believes they must prune radically their investment and marketing budget . |
| 11 | The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity . |
| 12 | Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered . |
| 13 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 14 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 15 | It would just have been having a good time . |
| 16 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
| 17 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |
| 18 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 19 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 20 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 21 | ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ? |
| 22 | As Maisie and Mr Malik 's relative were clearing away the destruction ( the Huysan twins had been having a mashed-potato fight with school spoons ) , he made his way up to the headmaster 's study . |
| 23 | And Jonathan would never have recognised her as the girl to whom he had become engaged , the easygoing girl whose only concern had been to have a good time , however much money it took . |
| 24 | Says 24-year-old Alex : ‘ We have been having a great time in Blackpool and are all so excited about coming to Liverpool . |
| 25 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 26 | I goes ah Shrimpy 's been having a massive go at Pete he 's threatened to punch his face in and all this business ! |
| 27 | Your husband 's been having a busy week . ’ |