Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [noun] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the High Street bank has been discussing plans to log untouched Brazilian jungle with Edinburgh forestry consultancy , Land and Timber Services . |
| 2 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 3 | And , according to the Nihon Keizai Simbun , the semi-public TV network NHK has been running HDTV broadcasts eight hours a day on a test basis since last year . |
| 4 | At five minutes to five , Shirley , the typist who had been helping Ianthe to file some cards , covered up her typewriter , put on the black imitation leather coat she had just bought , and hurried away singing . |
| 5 | Evidently he had been expecting Hazel to speak first and was somewhat at a loss . |
| 6 | The most interesting effect in Kleiman 's experiments emerged when the shadowers were asked whether a sentence such as Pizzas have been eating Jerry made any sense . |
| 7 | In fact for many years , the banks have been telling people to seek legal independent advice er since March nineteen ninety two , this has been a requirement of all loans . |
| 8 | On Earth , progressive tabernacles called ethical investment schemes have been using currency to support social causes for some time . |
| 9 | To this end , I have been visiting universities to give half-day courses on the datasets ; this includes a general description of the Census Initiative and the datasets , followed by a live demonstration of about fifteen programs illustrating the functionality of SASPAC91 . |