Example sentences of "they have [be] [v-ing] the [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 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |