Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local folk have been picking here for generations and always made sure that the beds were not overfished . |
| 2 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 3 | For the province 's future Olympic hopefuls have been brushing up on skills both on and off the sports fields . |
| 4 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 5 | But she and Hilda have been living together for years . ’ |
| 6 | Britain is a late runner in the modern tramway stakes , although such systems have been operating successfully for years in Continental cities . |
| 7 | The milkmen have been watching out for customers who lay their part in the community , are good neighbour , keep a watchful eye on elderly residents , or putting nuts out for the birds . |
| 8 | Some fear reprisals if they did so , although tourists have been coming here for years to fish for trout and salmon . ’ |
| 9 | It contains the first detailed plans for the Himalayas , which all the big names in the business have been working on for years . |
| 10 | They have been working successfully for years and apparently preclude the necessity of fertilisers . |
| 11 | It is important to note that most campaigners have been working quietly in communities for years but despite this , attitudes on genital mutilation have not changed very much . |
| 12 | Ms Nancy Lazar , an economist at C.J. Lawrence , views this as a better measure than M2 , which is growing at a faster 6.1% year-on-year : deposits have been flowing out of savings and loan institutions , which do not show up in M2 , and into banks , which do . |
| 13 | To add to Rocco 's woes , firms have been spending less on functions while he had to splash out £160 million on tarting up his properties , which include the Cafe Royal and the Waldorf . |
| 14 | They have been buggering about with things a lot though … |
| 15 | The reader 's time and money would be better spent reading that classic novel you have been putting off for years . |
| 16 | It serves 38 million vending cups a year , most of which have been ending up in bins . |
| 17 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 18 | Thus the expedition is neatly manipulated to include many of the requirements of the national curriculum : ‘ We are very keen to make sure that we do n't lose all the good things that have been going on in schools , ’ she says . |
| 19 | Celia and I have been battling away for months now and we do n't seem to be getting anywhere . |
| 20 | And all the students in those colleges that are studying education have been doing so for awards at the University of Sussex , so we 're actually a much bigger family than the students we have here on the site at Thelma . |
| 21 | I have been talking only about directors who own their own company but the concept of restricting earnings can often be profitably applied to other employees . |
| 22 | Letters have been flooding in from viewers desperate to see the Spanish soap from the axe in just a few weeks . |
| 23 | Hundreds of dead dolphins have been washing up on shores in the Mediterranean recently , leaving scientists puzzled as to the cause . |