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 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In further and higher education , the gap has also been declining in recent years . |
| 9 | Nicholas Brown has now been languishing behind Indian bars since the end of 1990 . |
| 10 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 20 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 26 | Although the Hervert Laming letter of 13 December 1992 created its own furore about what should be written down , senior managers had already been debating for six months about whether care managers should bluff users and relatives about the money available for them . |
| 27 | Pitmen in Northumberland and Durham were working six or seven hours in 1765 but seem to have been working at least eight by the end of the century , as Whitehaven 's colliers had already been doing in 1765 . |
| 28 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |
| 29 | By the time human beings first came into being , several million years ago , life had already been evolving for three and a half billion years . |
| 30 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |