Example sentences of "they have [be] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And can I just comment on one point by Mr , he said about they 've been using the local government erm housing Act . |
| 2 | They 've been testing the top-of-the-range model , the one with the voice activated selector , on site … |
| 3 | They 've been restoring a battered old narrowboat . |
| 4 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 5 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 6 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |
| 7 | Students who are entitled to transitional relief will receive ⅕ of the relief they would have received if they had been paying the full community charge . |
| 8 | After hearing that they had been attending a high school graduation party , they were released by the judge on the condition that they were each driven to their parents ' home exactly as they appeared in court — with only a blanket for |
| 9 | One moment they had been crossing a burning glade of shoulder-high grass in the full glare of the sun and the next they descended abruptly into a dark , silent , mysterious world where the air was cool and moist , the earth soft and spongy underfoot , and dazzling orchids blazed suddenly among the deep green undergrowth . |
| 10 | Most of the ‘ masters ’ of torture said that they had been fighting a desperate unseen war , whose atmosphere could not be imagined by people from democracies . |
| 11 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 12 | If they have been taking a prescribed drug this is likely to have been methadone , and if the daily dose can be established this can be prescribed . |
| 13 | Since then they have been effecting a gradual programme of repair , restoration and alteration . |
| 14 | Women are particularly vulnerable to diseases such as arthritis , osteoporosis ( brittle-bone disease ) and heart attacks in their middle years if they have been leading a sedentary life , sitting slumped in front of the television , losing muscle tone and even bone mass . |
| 15 | ‘ They have been doing a fantastic job putting the Berlitz name in a leading position since the move from Lausanne and through the process of merger with Fukutake , ’ said Mr Kirkpatrick . |
| 16 | They have been fighting a real war , a race war , a class war , a war over resources and territory , a war in which real children die every day , a war nobody can win because no territory is conquered and the body counts do not mean victory . |
| 17 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |