Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agribusiness , which has been moving into the luxury end of the market , with the growth of carnations in Colombia and strawberries in Mexico for sale in the United States , has contributed to the high level of exports . |
| 2 | THERE 'S little doubt that over the past decade the British public has been moving towards the Tory party 's ideal of a nation of home owners . |
| 3 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 4 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 5 | The sight of the greyish kettle beside the gas-ring , and of the yellowish mug which has been drying on the little draining-board for the last fifteen years , makes me think of tea . |
| 6 | Her novels have the same honest sensitivity as the photographs she has been taking since the 1930s — photographs of rural poverty in Mississippi , of back streets with laundry drying on a line , of proud school teachers , of plum-pickers with their tin buckets . |
| 7 | I 've watched Howard Kendall 's side recently , and the stuff they have been serving up has been bordering on the pathetic compared to earlier performances this season . |
| 8 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 9 | For many years AI has been calling for an independent judicial inquiry to investigate the pattern of disputed killings by security forces in Northern Ireland in order to help prevent unlawful killings . |
| 10 | The owner has been calling by every few days to check on progress , but now is in Barbados . |
| 11 | The representative collection of 20th century art which Lancaster University has been amassing since the 1960s and 1970s by purchase , gifts and bequests , is to be housed in a worthy new purpose-built annex to the already existing and refurbished Peter Scott Gallery . |
| 12 | ‘ Kenny has been competing since the junior level and he has done so very successfully , ’ said Mr Sullivan . |
| 13 | Data to be published shortly draws on experiments including observations of Freddy , the dolphin that has been living off the Northumbrian coast for four years . |
| 14 | STEPHEN HENDRY has been living under a Fatal Attraction nightmare since September . |
| 15 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 16 | For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world . |
| 17 | Sandi Toksvig , the comedy actress , has been advising on the seventy fifth birthday plans with television , book and consumer magazine support , she 'll be visiting Zimbabwe in October with a B B C television crew to film a documentary and will be visiting and filming Save The Children Fund projects while she 's there . |
| 18 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 19 | Although Mr Lamont has been staying in the Imperial Hotel with the rest of the Cabinet , he has held most of the talks in more down-market hotels along the Promenade . |
| 20 | ‘ Five Bellies ’ , who earns nearly £40,000 a year as Gazza 's companion and minder , has been staying in the Italian capital since the soccer star joined Lazio . |
| 21 | Another man has been existing in a tiny cell in Georgia for 20 years — waiting to die . |
| 22 | Since you left me so abruptly , my mind has been teeming with a whole variety of things I 'd like to do to you . ’ |
| 23 | The reader is reminded that all that has been written so far has been dealing with the First and Second Periods into which the development of the Created God has been divided . |
| 24 | This morning for instance the Scottish executive of the people 's party will have an opportunity to examine the fruits of some of the labours of the Scottish Trades Union Congress , which has been functioning as the honest broker following the swiftly evaporating euphoria of the 25,000 souls who turned up on 12 December . |
| 25 | He has been stonewalling throughout the whole month since Lamb told the world , through the Daily Mirror , how the Pakistanis scuff and scrape and scoop at an old ball until it swings as though it was factory fresh . |
| 26 | Gossips down in Houston insist that Compaq Computer Corp will announce its withdrawal from the Advanced Computing Environment initiative within a couple of weeks because its business is making very high volume personal computers , and it ca n't see the MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based machines ever reaching those kinds of volumes ; no-one was available to comment at Compaq but its strategy has been shifting over the past year — the investment in Silicon Graphics Inc has been sold , and founder and president Rod Canion was ousted from the company after differences over strategy . |
| 27 | Unix System Labs ' top brass has been meeting with the Russian Minister of Higher Education about getting Unix made part of the curriculum . |
| 28 | The playgroup , at Cam in Gloucestershire , has been meeting at the United Reform chapel in the village for 10 years . |
| 29 | But quite a few samples are thought to have nitrogens of about 1.4% , and for that quality of sample the suggestion in the trade is that a premium of up to £20/t could be available , though this is compared with a spot feed market that has been weakening over the past week . |
| 30 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |