Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us assume that agents have been flirting for a while with the use of the adaptive expectations mechanism but that , in the light of the persistent , systematic errors which this mechanism entails , they quickly abandon it . |
| 2 | For a number of years , my wife Ann and I have been fishing with a party of friends at Altnaharra . |
| 3 | The woman , who is married and lives in Formby , Sefton , said : ‘ I have been trying for a child for 19 years . |
| 4 | Wildlife groups such as the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) have been pushing for a ban on fishing , but have been strongly opposed by the fishing industry . |
| 5 | House prices in Greater London have been rising at a rate of around 15 to 18 per cent over the past couple of years . |
| 6 | I HAVE been hearing of a move on at the moment which , if it spreads , could see us all getting our pay in pints . |
| 7 | Toy soldier enthusiasts have been gathering at an auction to try and pick up some bargains . |
| 8 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
| 9 | I know this because I have been glancing at a magazine called Rubiks printed in English and published in Budapest . |
| 10 | ‘ Rail services in the North-East have been deteriorating for a number of years with reduced frequencies , later first trains and earlier last trains , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Senior staff at the Louvre have been smarting after a petition launched by eighty-eight year old French abstract artist Jean Bazaine and an article in Point de Vue — a magazine specialising in coverage of European royalty — accused them of gross negligence in their ambitious restoration of one of the museum 's largest pictures , ‘ The Marriage at Cana ’ by Paolo Cagliari , better known as Veronese . |
| 12 | We have been dealing with an agent so I do n't know how he really feels . |
| 13 | However , the children of your unmarried partner can not inherit from you unless you adopt them or make a will even if they have been living as a family with you both . |
| 14 | McGuigan says his wife , Sandra , and their four children have been living on a knife-edge since Eastwood 's libel action . |
| 15 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
| 16 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |
| 17 | We have been living in a jungle all our lives and we have struggled to bring our minds into cultivation but without hope and suddenly we have found this meadow of cleared land on which we can plant our gardens . |
| 18 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 19 | The animals have been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and are now well enough to be moved into a purpose built set . |
| 20 | They may not be looking for treatment or rehabilitation but er what we can offer them is clean injecting equipment er free condoms , because H I V is transmitted sexually as well , probably more than , more often than in Oxfordshire , er and also we have been prescribing from an assessment clinic in the city centre . |
| 21 | Embarrassed to some extent by their traditional association with the Soviet Union , but at the same time drawing their identity from it , the communist parties of Western Europe have been passing through a period of internal crisis and conflict . |
| 22 | I have been looking for a recording ( with some difficulty ) , since not many shops are prepared to let me listen to different interpretations ) , indeed I purchased the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden/Marc Ermler offering only to be disappointed , all because I wanted CD sound quality to replace a home-made cassette of a live Radio 3 broadcast ( should I be telling you this ? ) |
| 23 | Scientific director Gordon McVie said : ‘ We have been looking for a link between diet and cancer for 20 years now and this could be it . |
| 24 | Darlington councillor Frank Robson , chairman of the town 's twinning sub-committee , said : ‘ We already have twin towns in Germany and France and have been looking for a twin in Eastern Europe for some time . |
| 25 | Everton have been looking for a target man to bring out the best in Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley . |
| 26 | For some years the naval dockyards have been operating in a limbo land . |
| 27 | A serious inquiry into the theory that almost all Australians had no fathers and have been searching for a father figure ever since , only to find it in their own persons , with resultant confusion . |
| 28 | Young musicians have been auditioning for a music academy which plans to become a new centre of excellence for the arts . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been saving for a while now , ’ Yanto began , ‘ and by tonight I shall have a hundred and fifty . |
| 30 | Both have been suffering from a surfeit of squash , according to the man who manages them , Norman Norrington . |