Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [adj] and [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wrexham Maelor council has been collecting historical and architectural items of interest for a decade . |
| 2 | The exhibition of ‘ The Cosmological Pictures ’ which has been touring Eastern and Western European cities since autumn 1991 , opens at the Tate Gallery 's Liverpool branch towards the end of this month ( 23 January-14 March ) . |
| 3 | It is ironic that while scientific exploration has been producing incredible and exciting pictures of the world around us the technology it has spawned has had some depressing results — from atomic bombs to chlorofluorocarbons . |
| 4 | He defends himself saying that ‘ for nearly thirty years ’ he has been using black and white and that , what is more , the Documenta logo was also black and white . |
| 5 | She 'd been feeling lonely and vulnerable . |
| 6 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 7 | In fact she had been feeling tired and queasy for the past few days ; and that night , when the leading man laid her on the sofa , suddenly turned her head and , without letting the audience see , vomited quietly down the sofa back . |
| 8 | I 've been feeling headachy and dizzy for a few days now . ’ |
| 9 | Similarly , post-war fascists have been using psychological and anthropological material in their racist ideology ( Billig , 1978 , 1981 ; Seidel , 1986 ) . |
| 10 | Groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have been campaigning long and hard to put across their views . |