Example sentences of "have [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 5 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 12 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 13 | I 've , I 've just been dealing with that in a booklet . |
| 14 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 15 | Indicate erm tt what the percentage was , because we 've always been sitting round this table patting ourselves on the back , saying that er |
| 16 | If the river had still been working with any serious use of its productive capacity , this presentation of delightful monuments would not have been possible . |
| 17 | I 'm influenced by street , jazz , and I 've also been looking at some African dancing ’ |
| 18 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 19 | If we had simply been moving to another site we would just roll everything up and take it with us . |
| 20 | But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win . |
| 21 | I have also been listening to this wonderful young singer from Dresden , Olaf Bär . |