Example sentences of "that [noun] have been [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I admit that Toby has been stirring things up in his newspaper . |
| 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 | Moreover the novel takes up the remark to Katkov that the criminal ‘ himself morally demands ’ his punishment ( which on its own might mean no more than that Dostoevsky had been reading Hegel or popularized Hegel ) , and builds some marvellous effects upon it . |
| 4 | It need n't mean that Dostoevsky had been telling lies and is now telling the truth in the privacy of his own notebooks . |
| 5 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |
| 6 | Roger revealed that Clarissa had been buying Christmas presents since the summer ; little bundles would be secreted in cupboards . |
| 7 | He did n't believe like his Mum , that Lee had been making trouble , knocking and then running off . |
| 8 | ‘ Because if you do n't , ’ said Owen , ‘ I shall let it be generally known that Andrus has been giving money to the Moslems for them to use against Copts . ’ |
| 9 | It is not until Stanley overhears that Blanche has been calling Stanley ‘ an animal ’ that he decides that he will have to destroy her to save their marriage . |
| 10 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |
| 11 | So we always this has always been the case for the four five hundred years that people have been doing etching , so they go by a rule of thumb . |
| 12 | Erm I 've got a note , or I had a note to write to the admin at the university and I have done , erm saying that Derek 's been approaching people , apologising for not writing beforehand and saying that Derek 's been approaching people and if they 've got a problem they should write back P D Q. |
| 13 | Erm I 've got a note , or I had a note to write to the admin at the university and I have done , erm saying that Derek 's been approaching people , apologising for not writing beforehand and saying that Derek 's been approaching people and if they 've got a problem they should write back P D Q. |
| 14 | ‘ Not directly but we did find out that Inez had been getting letters with Spanish stamps . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Only that Humber 's been raising Cain all day about having to carry D.I.L.s in Marcus proper and Marcus Small Ward , and how , though she 's willing , she ca n't be in two places at once . ’ |
| 16 | It was known that Ramos had been seeking Aquino 's endorsement as her favoured successor as president , but she had stated that she would not announce her choice until 1992 . |
| 17 | It has come to my attention that students have been copying software with staff encouragement . |
| 18 | Although the British Government ruled out the prospect of the US company buying Austin Rover , within days of it leaking out that talks had been taking place , Bob Lutz , Ford of Europe chairman , said : ‘ I honestly believe it would have been best for Britain . ’ |