Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 2 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 3 | The jury in the James Bulger murder trial at Preston have been hearing how the two eleven year old boys accused of murder blamed each other for most of the violence . |
| 4 | Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | For the past 23 years Unionists have been saying exactly the same thing with regard to both security policy and political policy . |
| 6 | At Warwick University ( England ) , doctors Steve Van Toller and George Dodd have been carrying out a great deal of research in recent years into the relationship between smell and emotion . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , forensic experts have been carrying out a thorough examination of the lonely cottage where Jonathan and Tania had met shortly before she disappeared . |
| 8 | Researchers at Gloucesters public health laboratories have been carrying out a long term study into more than three hundred cases of meningitis . |
| 9 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |
| 10 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |