Example sentences of "have [adv] be [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the abundance of reserves , coal production in the USSR has not been increasing at any significant rate . |
| 2 | This scheme has already been operating in some London boroughs but it has prompted criticism from anti-poll tax campaigners who have branded the technique as ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 3 | This scheme has already been operating in some London boroughs but it has prompted criticism from anti-poll tax campaigners who have branded the technique as ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 4 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 5 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 6 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 7 | It was an untidy sort of buildup but the ball fell invitingly for on the edge of the area and who has n't been scoring at all this season finished with all the aplomb of a player who 's full of confidence . |
| 8 | oh no you could n't you 'd not been messing with that all that long |
| 9 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 10 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 12 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 13 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 14 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 15 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 16 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 17 | This was an idea that appealed strongly to me , though Unamuno had not been thinking of some of the ‘ brothers in solitude ’ — the outcasts from social and sexual ‘ normality ’ — who were the brothers that first sprang to my mind on reading that sentence in Corsham . |
| 18 | Two years ago , before he received an honorary doctorate at Stirling University , he told The Scotsman that the researchers had not been speaking to each other . |
| 19 | We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further . |
| 20 | Although fitted with an alarm courtesy of the Venice in Peril Fund , this had not been working for some time . |
| 21 | I 've , I 've just been dealing with that in a booklet . |
| 22 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 23 | Indicate erm tt what the percentage was , because we 've always been sitting round this table patting ourselves on the back , saying that er |
| 24 | If the river had still been working with any serious use of its productive capacity , this presentation of delightful monuments would not have been possible . |
| 25 | I 'm influenced by street , jazz , and I 've also been looking at some African dancing ’ |
| 26 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 27 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
| 28 | Now if I had n't been poking around that shop and in an |
| 29 | Well , we had n't been wondering at all , we 'd come straight along the corridor , but of course he was speaking in a wider sense . |
| 30 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |