Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adisa has been staying At the home of Michael Durgut in Kidlington , a native Bosnian . |
| 2 | Adisa has been staying At the home of Michael Durgut in Kidlington , a native Bosnian . |
| 3 | As the charity Oxfam moves into its fiftieth year , Central News South has been looking at the work it does away from the headlines of war and natural disaster . |
| 4 | Mike Rowbottom has been looking at the history of this remarkable experiment in Christian co-operation . |
| 5 | The Centre has been looking at the productivity record of profit-sharing and non-profit-sharing firms , and the extent to which Japanese experience supports the idea that profit-sharing is a defence against stagflation . |
| 6 | A House of Commons select committee , which has been looking at the feasibility of using ‘ combined heat and power ’ ( CHP ) , last week reported that the idea is about to come into its own in Britain . |
| 7 | To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d per cent up to that day . |
| 8 | Ron Coatman has been working at the pool for 26 years . |
| 9 | As the minimum economic scale of production in the assembly plant has been decreasing , it has been increasing at the level of the firm for engineering , design and marketing . |
| 10 | The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion . |
| 11 | Twice a day for the best part of four decades a box has been arriving at the Palace containing the reports from British ambassadors overseas . |
| 12 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 13 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
| 14 | But of course , th , I 'd been living at The Haven then , next to the butcher 's shop . |
| 15 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 16 | Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing . |
| 17 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 18 | However , if , by the date of trial , it can be shown that the deceased 's income would have risen since his death , then the dependency will be calculated by reference to what he would have been earning at the date of trial , rather than what he in fact was earning at the date of his death . |
| 19 | Thus Castro was in dire need of a Soviet commitment to preserve his revolution , and in a speech given to the United Nations on 26 September 1960 the Cuban leader may have been hinting at the price he might have been willing to pay when he said , ‘ We understand how terrible the subordination of the economy and life in general of nations to foreign economic power is . |
| 20 | Then she looked swiftly , secretly with her large eyes back to where Conchis must have been sitting at the harpsichord , and then again at me . |
| 21 | There were also significant correlations with the actual accident statistics , r(1064)=0.142 , average weekday traffic flow , r(1064)=0.236 , accident estimate , r(1064)=0.278 , the time spent at the junction , r(1064)=0.246 , the number of vehicles visible in the film , r(1064)=0.201 , and the average speed at the junction , r(1064)=-0.118 , all of which are to a large degree measures of how much would actually have been happening at the junction . |
| 22 | Luke and Sonny knew he was coming on the afternoon train ; they should have been waiting at the railway station with the horse and trap . |
| 23 | The best known is that , where there is a gift to a class of children living at a particular date , a child en ventre sa mère at that date but later born alive will be treated as having been living at the date and thus included in the class . |
| 24 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 25 | ‘ Mr C S Jones ( Lab ) , Leicester NW — Will the Government now publish the report on which Mr S J L Summerchild is known to have been working at the time of his death ? — The report has already been published as Cmnd. 4078 . ’ |
| 26 | Robert could not have said why , but he had the strong impression that the engineering master , too , had been listening at the door . |
| 27 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 28 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 29 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |
| 30 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |