Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [v-ing] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , she pointed out that as far back as 1980 , the Sports Council had been recommending all governing bodies to charge a minimum subscription of £2.00 per person . |
| 2 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 3 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 4 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 5 | It seems that for some time the firm had been issuing such promissory notes and having them endorsed by its local bank in Bihać ( where , incidentally , the partisans held the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Liberation of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 6 | Mining operations for oil-shale and coal had been providing much new information which showed that the original maps of Central Scotland were inaccurate in places . |
| 7 | William IV died shortly afterwards and it has been written that , a search being instituted , it was found that that bluff and breezy monarch had been using this unique ancient artifact as a shaving mug ! |
| 8 | I take on the role of the mayor to ask — " What on earth has been causing all this damage ? " |
| 9 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 10 | ‘ You can have too much of anything , ’ was Gay 's sage rejoinder , ‘ and I rather think her mother 's been overdoing this entertaining stunt . |