Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been thinking a great deal about it , and I really think there was much force in what your friends said … |
| 2 | I have been thinking a good deal , as I 'm sure you have , about the decline in income and the urgent need to improve matters . |
| 3 | I have been trying a new range of foods from OSI , an American company with a good reputation in the States , which manufactures a massive range of both freshwater and marine food products . |
| 4 | Odilo and I have been airing the new apartment until it is heavy with her smell . |
| 5 | In all the time I have been writing the bass analysis column , I can not remember receiving any requests for the very influential playing of John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin , and now I get two in the same month . |
| 6 | During the past week I have been watching the Germanic guru , Ralf Dahrendorf , on the box , telling us Britishers just where we are going wrong . |
| 7 | Therefore , there must be value elsewhere and I have been studying the other prices . |
| 8 | I have been examining the Liberal Democrats ' environmental document called , ’ Costing the Earth ’ . |
| 9 | I have been giving a great deal of consideration towards the most effective Council Tax structure to be adopted based on the experiences of Community Charge to date . |
| 10 | And he answered : ‘ Yes , I have been waiting a long time , waiting to hear you say that . |
| 11 | I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly . |
| 12 | I have been walking a great deal , he wrote . |
| 13 | Tam Dalyell is wrong to say that I have been predicting a total European ban on lead in petrol as from June this year ( Forum . |
| 14 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 15 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 16 | I have been following the hon. Gentleman carefully . |
| 17 | If you have been following a normal varied British pattern of eating you have probably been consuming less dietary fibre than you need for health protection , but it is unlikely that you are deficient in minerals and vitamins . |
| 18 | You have been doing the right thing by cutting out the dead wood you found in spring , but these plants do get very straggly , and to get the best out of it you will need to be a bit more ruthless . |
| 19 | At this point , your chances of success are actually considerably reduced , since a power on recovery requires a different technique to a power off landing- and you have been practising the wrong thing ! |
| 20 | Have you not read novels , been to the cinema and watched the hero and heroine embracing and realized you have been missing a great deal ? |
| 21 | To get a true feeling for the plan it should also be applied to the Principal because although you have been paying a fixed amount in each month the value of this has also decreased due to inflation . |
| 22 | We have been lacking a wee bit of professionalism recently . |
| 23 | In the last year we have been developing an occasional series to respond to this demand — the Survivors ' Guide . |
| 24 | But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true . |
| 25 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 26 | ‘ We have been monitoring the downward trend over the last 10 years , and our impression is that the decline is beginning to bottom out : there may have been 5m fewer loans last year , but the drop was 15m in 1991–92 . |
| 27 | In the above discussion we have been considering a word-oriented computer where each instruction occupies one word . |
| 28 | We have been reversing the Labour Party 's neglect of the prison service in the 1970s . |
| 29 | So far we have been discussing the intentional aspect of language in our comparison of human with other animal communication . |
| 30 | To date we have been permitting an additional smoking break in the morning and again in the afternoon for smokers within the office as part of the agreement to have no smoking throughout the main parts of Chesser House . |