Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular . |
| 2 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 3 | Shirley branch has now been trading for 3O years , and to celebrate its birthday a dinner-dance is being held at the Novotel Hotel in Southampton on October 16 . |
| 4 | Pleass has recently been working on a demo tape with producer Mike Moran . |
| 5 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 6 | In further and higher education , the gap has also been declining in recent years . |
| 7 | At this period in time Highlander had also been working on a community health program , the broad aim of which was ; |
| 8 | The snow had obviously been falling for hours , probably while she was still watching The Blue Angel . |
| 9 | And yet the end of the Second World War was such a celebration of the defeat of the fascist enemy that there was a failure to grasp the fact that the universal Enemy had merely been rehearsing for Armageddon . |
| 10 | Dot had n't been thinking of her . |
| 11 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 12 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 13 | Capitalism had always been baffling to Ceauşescu , now his involvement with it was a curse . |
| 14 | The immigration process had previously been proceeding at a hectic pace following a " family reunification " agreement signed by the two countries in January . |
| 15 | That striped blouse had n't been lying on top . |
| 16 | Rain had not been thinking of doing that . |
| 17 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 18 | ‘ A military gentleman has n't been asking for me , has he ? |
| 19 | Ohtake has recently been experimenting with objets trouvés , transforming them into architectural forms ; these are not , however , completely divorced from the spirit of the assemblages , collages , ink drawings and graffiti typical of his earlier work . |
| 20 | The E-culture has only been raving since 1986 , so perhaps it is too early to tell if it can cause long term mental changes . |
| 21 | General Morillon has also been negotiating for the placing of six Muslim towns or enclaves to be put under UN protection . |
| 22 | Now there are occasionally criticisms from members that there is too much concentration on the elite end of sport in the Sports Federation in this instance the R Y A but what is important about the is an effort to produce a very high standard as a finished product so to speak to go to the Olympics but it also helps to concentrate minds on the bit that is missing before and help to recycle everybody 's concentration into the training area and Rod has just been talking about the year of youth and of course it follows on very naturally in a post- olympic year to launch that year of youth . |
| 23 | From 1973 the Health Protection and Environment Directorates of the European Commission had also been working on measures to control wastes and ‘ trace ’ substances in water : they adopted a 50mg/litre nitrate limit for the 1980 Directive Relating to the Quality of Water Intended for Human Consumption ( 80/778/EEC ) , which also controls pesticides and metals . |
| 24 | Maeve agreed that the old nun had probably been referring to Lady Eleanor 's hands . |
| 25 | Determination , aggression and commitment have all been missing from their recent displays , but a lack of concentration denied them their first much-needed double of the season . |
| 26 | However , this year the Speaker has also been reaching outside his Sacramento stronghold : convening an economic summit in Los Angeles to examine the state 's recession ; pushing laws to reform California 's hated workers'-compensation scheme ; leading a team of legislators to Washington to plead for the state 's interests ; putting himself forward as a mediator in a fractious dispute over teachers ' pay in Los Angeles . |
| 27 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 28 | And if the tape recorder had n't been rolling with me playing around on guitar , some of the songs would never have happened ; I would never have remembered them . |
| 29 | The Finnish government had hitherto been pressing for a change in the plans , to incorporate a special section allowing passage for rigs over 65 metres high . |
| 30 | If the river had still been working with any serious use of its productive capacity , this presentation of delightful monuments would not have been possible . |