Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due .
2 Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness .
3 She is certainly not one of those who have been living on mung beans for as long as they can remember .
4 This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system .
5 A number of his fellow Cheshires who have been serving in war-torn Bosnia were also honoured for their gallantry .
6 One Canadian official told New Scientist that scientists from the US have been replaced by ‘ people with less relevant experience , and some who have been acting as political commissars ’ .
7 Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ?
8 For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house .
9 There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years .
10 Our apologies to all our readers who have been struggling with this .
11 Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance .
12 Well Done , all those Teachers and Class members who have been contributing in many ways , and keep it up in 1985 .
13 POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days .
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