Example sentences of "[conj] have been [v-ing] in [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Or has been going in the past , and violence obviously can result in serious injury or at least death . |
2 | Whether you have just moved into a new home or have been living in the same place for years the main thing is that you are alone and you must make your home your pride , your joy , your sanctuary . |
3 | In case you had n't figured it out already , or have been vacationing in the Amazon rain forest , ACE is well and truly dead . |
4 | About 90% of rural adults in Mexico have friends or relatives who are or have been working in the United States . |
5 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
6 | The deal , said by sources to be ‘ very valuable to Pyramid , ’ will also allow ICL to OEM the company 's high-end MIServer ES machines — this follows on from an informal Pyramid-ICL sales teaming that has been operating in the UK for the last few months . |
7 | AMERICA 'S Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) has set a sturdy hare running , one that has been lurking in the undergrowth for 15 years . |
8 | Recently , in fact , with only bathroom tissue , hand soap and water , I cleaned up an acrylic painting that had been hanging in a office for 24 years . |
9 | They were on the dusty painted dresser , on the shelves , and on a tin tray before a freckled old mirror that had been hanging in the bathroom . |
10 | When the political and moral credibility of the Soviet system collapsed in 1956 , something that had been slumbering in the depths of Sartre 's consciousness was suddenly reawakened . |
11 | The storm that had been circling in the distance wandered far off , only an occasional casual flicker of light low in the sky showed that somewhere the enormous battle was going on . |
12 | Children were playing on the green , a wet labrador that had been swimming in the beck was drying out by the village cross , and there was just room amongst the people sat at the table outside the pub for one man and his dog . |
13 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
14 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
15 | Meantime , do n't throw away the sloes that have been steeping in the gin ; use them instead to make a wicked fruit pie with the bitter taste of sloe sweetened by the addition of sugar . |
16 | Since these results are obtained in animals that have been living in a normal environment , they mean that the clock originates , at least in these animals , from an abnormal ‘ internal ’ structure , the chromosome . |
17 | Golden shares will prevent the French water companies that have been investing in the British water industry from bidding outright for five years . |
18 | Unix System Labs is apparently looking at the Tiny 386BSD boot disk ( the one that 's been circulating in the academia , which derives from Bill Jolitz 's work and is not from Berkeley System Design Inc ) checking that it does n't infringe their property rights . |
19 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |