Example sentences of "that they have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 2 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 3 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 4 | Yes sir he told me that er would know because they ha had been together in prison and that he also had information that they had been planning armed robberies together . |
| 5 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 6 | In a recent South African trial resulting from a rail accident , the drivers concerned denied responsibility on the grounds that they had been working compulsory 18-hour shifts . |
| 7 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |
| 8 | So Iraq has now formally asked the Turks to shorten the cut-off period but the Turks reply that they have been releasing more water down the river and the Iraquis should have been able to build up stocks . |