Example sentences of "[conj] have be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An accumulation of socioeconomic problems that have been developing for 25 years are closing in on blacks like a vice , ’ says veteran African-American author and social theorist Harold Cruse . |
| 2 | There are some TNCs that have been operating in Latin America , Africa and Asia for decades and have won enviable reputations as model employers . |
| 3 | Ah 'm worn to a frazzle fighting off the toffs that have been swarming round this door since she was nine and three quarters . |
| 4 | Among the host of popular classes that have been running for several years — upholstery , art , body conditioning , keep fit , body talk , jazz dance , electronic organ , and two levels of French — there are also the more recent additions of appreciation of poetry , yoga for beginners and dressmaking . |
| 5 | Yes but then thinking about those that have been running for some time . |
| 6 | I think it enables the young people that have been coming to those meetings to find out too the problems that Councillors and Local Authorities have in actually trying to carry out the sort of things they want . |
| 7 | I think it enables young , the young people that have been coming to those meetings to find out too the problems that councillors have and local authorities have , in actually trying to carry out the sorts of things they want . |
| 8 | ‘ There it is — the bush — trees that have been standing for hundreds of years . ’ |
| 9 | At all material times he and his family have been homeless within the meaning of section 58 of the Housing Act 1985 and have been living in temporary accommodation provided by the council , the local housing authority , under section 63 of the Act . |
| 10 | Members may well be aware of , of some of the actions that the A T C have been taking on this , and have been calling on that to actually look at that to list of alternate . |
| 11 | They are part of a BMS Action Team and have been working for six months of mission in France . |
| 12 | Mr Petrakov is one of the band of influential economists who have made the mental leap to the market ( ‘ We need a normal , civilised market , ’ he says ) , and have been saying with growing urgency that Mr Gorbachev must join them , and bring the country with him . |