Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own career , ( Ursula Everest ) , has been plain schoolteaching in various schools . |
| 2 | In large scale industry ( such as the Automotive Industry ) the use of cordless tools has been steadily increasing in recent years so it is by no means novel technology . |
| 3 | Since 1950 , the population has been steadily increasing from 164 million to 448 million in 1989 . |
| 4 | Mongolia has been desperately looking for some . |
| 5 | Insurance , both life and non-life , has been rapidly expanding in recent years and this is a continuing trend as people and companies become more risk-conscious and because of the growth in the pensions industry . |
| 6 | The expenditure involved with election campaigns has been rapidly increasing since 1976 . |
| 7 | President Jorge Serrano Elias on May 20 publicly dismissed the possibility of a military coup , rumours of which had been widely circulating in recent weeks . |
| 8 | Public and official absorption in the war and its cost delayed action on other measures , such as old-age pensions , which the Conservative Cabinet had been seriously considering in 1899 . |
| 9 | Deng Xiaoping , China 's " elder statesman " leader , had considerable success during March in his effort to reinforce the reformist line which he had been actively promoting since early January . |
| 10 | Nature , produced by Robin Hellier , has a lot of pace as did Horizon 's The Geneva event ( BBC2 , 24 January ) What the latter did not have was much patience with the aspirant but relatively unlearned student of what is going on in the world of high energy physics The main Geneva event — the identification of the W subatomic particle which , with the Z , will enable the theory that the four fundamental forces of nature can be unified within a single framework to be sustained — has yet to be announced , though it is believed imminent Horizon had been patiently filming for four years . |
| 11 | But if I 've been away working for some time , it 's completely different . |
| 12 | Now , sixty one of you said you liked it and you 've been meekly listening to this wha er how would you reply to , to all those various views ? |
| 13 | Since then we have been steadily searching for another prize to go with the vouchers . |
| 14 | All of this ignores the nurses who have been unofficially deputising in medical roles for many years , according to senior nurse advocates . |
| 15 | In only his second start of the season , Snodin provided the spark of midfield inspiration and stong running that Everton have been desperately searching for all season . |
| 16 | As you know , we have been valiantly battling against this awful proposal for the last two years . |
| 17 | To begin with , the sea-trout on which Delphi fishery 's international reputation is founded have been mysteriously dying in large numbers for two seasons , and the volume of fishing business has dwindled to a trickle . |
| 18 | ‘ RCA have been really understanding in all the things we do . |