Example sentences of "they have be [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 50,000 children are admitted into hospital each year because they have been drinking harmful products . |
| 2 | In the last 20 years they have been using invisible nylon gill nets half a mile long and more . |
| 3 | They have been pestering other UN agencies , embassies and local traders , so far without success . |
| 4 | They have been paying ridiculous rents of up to DM120 for the little decent office space that now exists in eastern Berlin — about twice as much as they would pay for similar space in the western part of the city . |
| 5 | They have been protecting dissident groups and appealing for non-violence . |
| 6 | ‘ They have been leading separate lives for years now . |
| 7 | By Claire 's watch they have been waiting eleven minutes . |
| 8 | As they have been fighting each other on much of it , any agreement to stop must represent progress . |
| 9 | XYZ Foods are well-known for their pioneering work in the field of slimming foods and they have been researching this pack for the last year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They have been backing smaller movies in previous years , but now things are changing . |
| 12 | Some of them have been getting strong criticism lately . |