Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disease front has been moving ahead by fits and starts for most of the last two decades and three years ago crossed the Italian frontier into the provinces of South Tyrol and Venice . |
| 2 | Apparently not , for he has been thinking hard for months and his decision is now solid . |
| 3 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 4 | Martinez , another Spaniard , has been rising steadily for years and seems to be reaching her peak after a great three-set victory over Sabatini in the Rome final this month . |
| 5 | The man behind the take-over bid is understood to be a key figure in the Jersey tourist industry and has been trying unsuccessfully for years to get a Channel Island summer soccer tournament off the ground . |
| 6 | IBM Corp has been rumbling uncomfortably about repositories for Unix and Waltham , Massachusetts-based Cortex Corp has leaped into the breach with Version 5.0 of its repository-based application generator CorVision , now available for Unix where the company has hitherto concentrated the product on the Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS market . |
| 7 | Cheshire 's chemical industry has been lobbying hard for cuts in electricity pricing . |
| 8 | Goering has been negotiating secretly for months . |
| 9 | The Church 's music can also be taken into the street and market-place , as the Salvation Army has been doing successfully for years . |
| 10 | In fact Arlene has been working here for years . ’ |
| 11 | In Newcastle a mental health consumer group has been working closely with purchasers over the past two years . |
| 12 | Although it has been declining slightly among men under 65 during the past 20 years , it is still rising in women . |
| 13 | Although lung cancer during the past 20 years has been declining slightly among men under the age of 65 , it is still rising in women . |
| 14 | The DSS has been arguing successfully for years that if a claimant was ignorant of his entitlement , that did not justify his failure to claim or justify his having a back payment . |
| 15 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 16 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 17 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 18 | As the porter said , the corpses might have been lying there for days , even weeks . |
| 19 | For these reasons Parliament can not be taken to have been legislating only for transactions with the two classes of persons within Hambros Jersey 's suggested limitation . |
| 20 | The expediter — ‘ Joy ’ — was the envoy of a client of mine : the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines ( CDCP ) , a local company my bank had been courting unsuccessfully for years . |
| 21 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to the holiday with his son , who attended business meetings in the US capital . |
| 22 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to a holiday in the States with his son . |
| 23 | The Sikhs , ignoring him , had been digging steadily for hours ; now they were beginning to shovel up wet earth . |
| 24 | The French , who had been staying away in droves , would also be targeted with a splashy new advertising campaign . |
| 25 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 26 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 27 | They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years . |
| 28 | Although previously I had been walking only on weekends , I was now walking up to five times a week for half an hour at a time . |
| 29 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 30 | The new body had been growing steadily for weeks . |