Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been pushing for more effective action from the NIO for years and it is utter nonsense to say otherwise , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Rail fares have been rising at around 1 ½ per cent over inflation in recent years and the new corporate plan also warns that BR has 12 months to assess whether passengers would pay even more for a better service . |
| 3 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 4 | Those attached to long subduction zones , such as the Pacific Plate , have been moving at comparatively high velocities ( 60–90 mm a- 1 ) , whereas plates lacking extensive subducting boundaries have experienced slower rates of movement ( below 40 mm a-1 ) . |
| 5 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 6 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 7 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 8 | In Canada retail sales have been growing by as much as eight per cent a year , even after inflation . |
| 9 | I have been playing for about 13 years now , and doing so for pleasure . |
| 10 | We have been waiting for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 11 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 12 | Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out . |
| 13 | Thunderbirds have been going for over half a century … and with the next generation Its they 're set to continue for another twenty five years Fab . |
| 14 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |
| 15 | MY work has been written in sand and after my death will disappear in a decade or so , ’ wrote August Bournonville ( 1805–79 ) , the Danish choreographer whose ballets are still in the repertory , and whom the Danes have been celebrating with yet another Bournonville festival in Copenhagen . |