Example sentences of "that 's [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opus Systems Inc , Fremont , California , the Sparc clone pioneer that 's been struggling to keep its head above water for a long time , filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this month , claiming it should n't need the court 's protection after February 11 . |
| 2 | Eh and perhaps were one of the major funders in the past I say General Portfolio until recently were the major funders er in the in the ninety ninety one but there 's been no company that 's been funding the theatre on a regular basis . |
| 3 | And them that 's been drinking and that and did n't come b back |
| 4 | It 's a time bomb that 's been ticking for centuries and the fuse has always been gold . |
| 5 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 6 | ‘ Is there something about my work that 's been bothering you , Headmaster ? ’ |
| 7 | It 's a question that 's been bothering me . |
| 8 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 9 | ‘ He 's a great player who can provide the skill that 's been lacking . ’ |
| 10 | Well maybe , maybe it 's because the person that 's been dealing with is not sufficiently au fait with Peterborough |
| 11 | Did I do it for her or to release the frustration that 's been eating me since I left Deptford ? |
| 12 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that let Windows applications run on Unix desktops . |
| 13 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that enable Windows applications to run under Unix on desktop systems . |
| 14 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |
| 15 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 16 | A hotel that 's been flying the Union flag for more than sixty years has been told to get planning permission , or take it down . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's Dieter 's section that 's been handling this , so I 'll let him fill in the background . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 19 | And that 's been another thing that 's been worrying me over the weekend . |
| 20 | It 's a performance story that 's been adding up for over a decade . |
| 21 | A council that 's been paying for a fourteen-year-old criminal to stay in Spain has been criticised in court . |
| 22 | Well you know this next door neighbour of theirs that 's been driving cars all over the place ? |
| 23 | As we know , the organisation of business er is n't their strong point at the moment , whether its been run ragged by their own rebels or clumsily breaking down the usual channels , seems our non-cooperation policy is merely an extension of the one that 's been working so effectively inside the Conservative party under the present Prime Minister . |
| 24 | Unix System Labs is apparently looking at the Tiny 386BSD boot disk ( the one that 's been circulating in the academia , which derives from Bill Jolitz 's work and is not from Berkeley System Design Inc ) checking that it does n't infringe their property rights . |
| 25 | oh , no wonder that 's been hurting at night |
| 26 | What he can do is instill a sense of purpose and energy that 's been missing for years . |
| 27 | ‘ They 're currently assisting with an inquiry that 's been giving the police quite a few headaches for the last few months . ’ |
| 28 | you know , that G P's that 's been practising for a long number of years you know er , elderly G P's are probably not as up-to-date on these kind of things as they should be . |
| 29 | The young , the young officer who came to me he said of course we 're so glad you got the number , you 're quite right it 's a car that 's been doing the same thing in Wokingham . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've just been asked to take over a leading role in a production that 's been playing in Stratford which they 're taking to the Barbican . |