Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The E-culture has only been raving since 1986 , so perhaps it is too early to tell if it can cause long term mental changes . |
| 2 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 3 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 4 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 5 | In times past , Shiptonthorpe has not been lacking in interesting characters . |
| 6 | Also , the pilot will be in very good flying form and his instructor will have made sure that he has not been getting into bad habits . |
| 7 | Despite the abundance of reserves , coal production in the USSR has not been increasing at any significant rate . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In further and higher education , the gap has also been declining in recent years . |
| 12 | Nicholas Brown has now been languishing behind Indian bars since the end of 1990 . |
| 13 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 14 | THE paper recycling pilot scheme at LASMO 's Broadgate office has now been running for six months — and the amount of paper being collected each week has doubled . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | oh no you could n't you 'd not been messing with that all that long |
| 18 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | At almost a year old , Piment would have already been experimenting with solid food for a few months , though probably more in play than serious eating . |
| 21 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ This is an ideal situation for us , ’ says Gaynor , ‘ having both been working with other companies mainly as dancers having a home setting for us to be creative in our own right . ’ |
| 23 | Wh erm Terry 's feelings there do they you 've obviously been speaking to large numbers of protestors do they marry with the other opinions that you hear ? |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 26 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 27 | I heard some uncertain footsteps and he lurched on , waving a jug of orange juice , which was not the drink he had obviously been consuming in huge quantities . |
| 28 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 29 | All this would be understandable , of course , if these local forces had merely been dealing with minor coastal raiding , and one can not always be sure that their enemies were very numerous . |
| 30 | The mobile radio truck , belonging to the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand , had apparently been interfering with military radio frequencies , and the armed forces sought the removal from the Cabinet of Police Capt. Chalerm Yubamrung , a Minister attached to the Prime Minister 's Office , when Chalerm publicly criticized the military over the affair . |