Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pron] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The size of the waves is governed largely by the time during which they have been moving under the influence of the-wind . |
| 2 | The period during which I have been writing this chapter has seen one of the worst staffing levels ever at the women 's flat . |
| 3 | Though debt levels could be dramatically reduced through the sale of Pilkington 's Solaglass wing , for which they have been seeking a buyer . |
| 4 | classes of which I have been giving a history … a committee which labouring afterwards with Mr. Wilberforce as a parliamentary head did , under Providence , in the space of twenty years , contribute to put an end to a trade which … was the greatest practical evil that ever afflicted the human race . |
| 5 | I would now like to turn my attention to something which is in a sense a mirror image of what we have been considering . |
| 6 | It may be that we can learn from computers something of what we have been missing in the game ; or , that chess is so rich , that only a symbiosis between man and machine can explore it adequately . |
| 7 | The extraordinary collection of 20th century art that opens this month to the public at New Hall , Cambridge gives us all a chance to see how rich this history is and much of what we have been missing . |
| 8 | Erm I 'd like to refer to my page three or er section four in my conclusions because I think if I if I heard Professor Lock correctly I think he and I are at one in in a suggestion which is is put to you in in if you like without prejudice to the generality of what I have been saying in support of the council 's policy . |
| 9 | Here is a possible list which fits in with what I have been saying earlier : |
| 10 | If they are lax they are realised as short vowels , if tense as diphthongs ( this category including what I have been calling long vowels ) . |
| 11 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |
| 12 | Compost in which they have been growing should also be removed . |
| 13 | That is the right way to help people , it is the right way to achieve long-term prosperity for this country and it is the way in which we have been developing our policies . |
| 14 | The works of Freud are full of warnings against the very danger which is described in the study from which I have been quoting . |
| 15 | This facet of conversational discourse quite naturally leads to a consideration of the individual speaker 's topics within what we have been discussing as the conversational topic . |
| 16 | I hope that , whatever the outcome , Peter and his colleagues will have ceased to regard the IoT as an ‘ enemy ’ , and recognise the merit in what we have been saying and abandon the separate examination proposal . |
| 17 | While it is perfectly valid for children to step back from what they have been doing in drama and write about it , the exciting alternative of writing ( or drawing , or carrying out scientific experiments ) within the context of the drama , as the characters they are playing , produces lively and highly motivated work . |
| 18 | My normal reaction would have been to attack back but I was too tired , so I said : " If I understood from what I have been saying what you obviously understand — then I would agree with you . " |
| 19 | This argument about the policy aspects of regionalism could be extended to cover different theoretical approaches to the basket of problems to which we have been referring . |
| 20 | Between the two , so to speak , in the organizational and cultural space between them , or the Third Area , come the psychic and political relations to which I have been pointing . |
| 21 | That is not to say that it is enough to do deliberate actions which , in fact , obstruct ; there must be an intention that those actions should result in the further state of affairs to which I have been referring . ’ |
| 22 | This captures the screen on which you have been working and brings up the Pizazz Plus Main Menu . |
| 23 | The period of calm after the year-end 1992 figures were out of the way and digested ended with a bang this week as Wall Street woke up to what we have been flagging over the past month — that estimates for IBM Corp 's first quarter performance were far too high , and that virtually no business was being done . |
| 24 | Wall Street yesterday finally woke up to what we have been saying since January — that IBM Corp sets its dividend for one quarter at a time , and that there is no guarantee that the level declared for fourth quarter 1992 will be maintained quarterly this year : market dealers in Europe say a rumour surfaced here yesterday morning that another cut may be coming . |
| 25 | ‘ We maintain that we can not afford the rent being asked for by Mr Butters as it would amount to a 60 per cent increase on what we have been paying and we refuse to put the club in that sort of liability . |
| 26 | ( Referring to whatever we have been discussing : hooliganism ; child abuse ; industrial unrest ; pollution — whatever has been in the news … ) |
| 27 | We ca n't we devise publishing concepts which capture children 's imaginations in such a way that they are confident to spend as much time talking about what they have been reading as they are about last night 's episode of ‘ Neighbours ’ ? |
| 28 | It is in periods of reflection that the real learning occurs in drama , when people are given the chance to think about what they have been doing . |
| 29 | The most useful activities are those which stimulate children into thinking dynamically and constructively about what they have been doing . |
| 30 | Drunks and drug-takers are less susceptible to pain , because their senses are numbed by whatever they have been drinking or taking . |