Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 2 | It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house . |
| 3 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |
| 4 | While the employment rates of lone mothers have been falling those of married mothers have been rising . |
| 5 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 6 | Theologians have been arguing this for two thousand years … ’ |
| 7 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It is interesting that a major conservation charity like the Trust has been served with a writ now , when we have been doing this for 30 years at Blickling , ’ he added . |