Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , however , some scientists have been trying a new approach , ‘ cold fusion ’ , which involves ‘ changing ’ the behaviours of atoms at room temperatures . |
| 2 | I have been trying a new range of foods from OSI , an American company with a good reputation in the States , which manufactures a massive range of both freshwater and marine food products . |
| 3 | Recently some people have been trying a different approach , seeing if they can change the nature of the atoms such that fusion can occur at a useful rate even at room temperature . |
| 4 | But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true . |
| 5 | So far we ( and he too , perhaps ) have been imagining a dark animal : an American brown bear , a Russian black bear , a reddish bear from Savoy . |
| 6 | Schoolchildren have been getting a helping hand with their nature studies — from a world famous expert . |
| 7 | Scientists have been holding a one-day strike in an attempt to get the same pay as their European colleagues . |
| 8 | In Swindon 's council parks and gardens , ponds in hot houses have been accumulating an unwanted collection of the American reptiles ; large and small . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ The fans have been wanting a new face up front because of our recent goal drought . |
| 11 | You will be aware that Nancy Brown and Reception staff have been considering a staggered approach to Reception staff hours especially given the computerised directory system currently being introduced . |
| 12 | In the above discussion we have been considering a word-oriented computer where each instruction occupies one word . |
| 13 | Since then they have been effecting a gradual programme of repair , restoration and alteration . |
| 14 | At Tyrone County Hospital in Omagh surgeons have been using an advanced laser — the only one of its kind in Northern Ireland — to perform tonsillectomies and sinus surgery . |
| 15 | I have been thinking a good deal , as I 'm sure you have , about the decline in income and the urgent need to improve matters . |
| 16 | I have been thinking a great deal about it , and I really think there was much force in what your friends said … |
| 17 | The water is intended to wash away the contamination of sacredness of persons who have been acting a priestly role . |
| 18 | We have been lacking a wee bit of professionalism recently . |
| 19 | ‘ United have been enjoying a decent run and will arrive at Pittodrie looking for both points , ’ said Miller , who has told his players to forget all about their recent Scottish Cup win over McLean 's team . |
| 20 | Many people now reaching forty plus , have been enjoying a full sex life as a single person . |
| 21 | Since then , the fundamentalists have been waging a steady war on the government , at one point demanding the resignation of the Education Minister because of his plans for reforming the teaching of Islam in schools . |
| 22 | INDIA 'S troubled northern state of Kashmir , where militants have been waging an armed struggle for independence since 1990 , has a new governor . |
| 23 | It might still be a little premature to consign famous old clubs Nottingham and Rosslyn Park to relegation , but both have been well beaten by a resurgent Bristol — whose youthful side have been setting a blistering pace at the Memorial Ground so far this season — and their other results indicate that they face an uphill struggle to maintain their First Division status . |
| 24 | To get a true feeling for the plan it should also be applied to the Principal because although you have been paying a fixed amount in each month the value of this has also decreased due to inflation . |
| 25 | I have been walking a great deal , he wrote . |
| 26 | My hon. Friend may have noticed that the Opposition have been floating a similar idea among themselves and discussing again in an internal memorandum the possibility of a luxuries rate of VAT . |
| 27 | ‘ Everyone knows that we , like Comet , have been suffering a temporary downturn . |
| 28 | Emblem have been negotiating an exclusive agency here in Malta … ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | For too long , local planning authorities and local civic societies have been fighting an uneven battle against strong-arm tactics by the multiples . |