Example sentences of "they have been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 2 | Staff from Aberdeen were among 63 representatives of 35 libraries who attended a series of VISCOUNT demonstrations organised by the Library 's Lending Services during November and December , and were so impressed by what they saw that they decided to join the system , which they have been using successfully since January . |
| 3 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 4 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 5 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 6 | ( a ) Spouses living together There is no charge to capital gains tax on a transfer of assets between husband and wife provided that they have been living together in the year of assessment in which the transfer takes place ( Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 ) ( " TCGA 1992 " ) , s58 . |
| 7 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |
| 8 | ‘ In some cases smoking is as addictive as heroin and it is difficult for people to give up when they have been inhaling deeply for a number of years , ’ he told a news conference at the Royal Society in London . |
| 9 | They have been contributing generously to the upkeep of the 800 mosques in Britain ; all they ask in return is a say over the appointment of the imam . |
| 10 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 11 | Borders Regional Council also believes the new fishing dimension in the funding rules , given the fishing industry at Eyemouth , will strengthen the case for access to rural development to finance which they have been working on with Scottish Borders Enterprise for several years . |
| 12 | They have been working successfully for years and apparently preclude the necessity of fertilisers . |
| 13 | That action mainly has to be pressuring the Thames Water Utility Company to er to get its act together , and I must say that er since the last outbreak , they have been working hard at it . |
| 14 | Because of that the reactors had to undergo a licensing procedure from Nuclear , Now that survey , which they have been carrying out for a number of months now , almost certainly would require that a number of major improvements be made to those reactors , and they just have n't got the money to do that at the moment . |
| 15 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 16 | ‘ They have been coming here for the past six years . ’ |
| 17 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 18 | They have been campaigning hard in their Sigma 38 Red Arrow and in their chartered Castro two tonner Oracle Arrow , but John Best has wisely imported professional sailors , as he puts it : ‘ to help us make the jump from weekend sailing to the big league ’ . |
| 19 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 20 | They have been buggering about with things a lot though … |
| 21 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |