Example sentences of "[adv] that they have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 2 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 3 | And although you 're right that they 've been selling flowers for a long time , they underwent a massive re-fit recently . |
| 4 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 5 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |