Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , strike partner While there has been no doubting the high regard Beardsley is held in around Everton , many had begun to question Mo Johnston , whose future at Goodison had been in doubt after two months in the cold , looks to have earned a temporary reprieve following his equaliser against Liverpool . |
| 2 | USL has been discreetly nurturing the unprecedented deal for the past two years , out-manoeuvering IBM 's attempt to get OS/2 adopted . |
| 3 | For example , I mean , if a tutor , say , has been sexually harassing a young woman , and she puts in a complain of any kind or something like that , and then he puts pressure on her to withdraw that complaint and she does , I mean does the college at that stage stay well okay if she 's not going to complain then we wo n't do anything , thereby letting the harassment go ahead , or does the college say even though she does n't want to complain we 're nevertheless going to go ahead . |
| 4 | Earlier that year it had been uneasily digesting the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev 's secret speech denouncing the excesses of the Stalin era . |
| 5 | As he walked up to the house his black bitch , Polly , joined him from behind the compost heap in which she had been happily rootling the past half-hour . |
| 6 | The swans started to build their nest several weeks ago and everyone at the factory had been eagerly awaiting the big day . |
| 7 | For example , the French have been steadily deregulating the international French franc bond market , relaxing listing and authorisation requirements , reducing minimum maturities and allowing French subsidiaries of foreign banks to lead issues . |
| 8 | Helped by heavy subsidies from the European Commission , France 's Thomson and Holland 's Philips have been busily developing a new European standard for high-definition television ( HDTV ) , a new broadcasting technology that offers cinema-quality pictures on a TV screen . |