Example sentences of "have [adv] be [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , for all the vast growth in the range of government activities — which has meant that civil servants have effectively been making major business decisions on the allocation of resources — the Treasury made little attempt to devise fundamentally new and appropriate methods of training and re-training [ Fulton Report , 1968 ; Chapman and Greenaway , 1980 ] . |
| 2 | So far we have just been using linear demand curves , with a linear demand curve the slope is constant , however , elasticity varies everywhere along its length . |
| 3 | ‘ The way you and he have just been pawing each other about just has to mean that , in your own sweet way , ’ he inserted thunderously , ‘ you 've been endorsing the fact that your affair with him is over ! ’ |
| 4 | Thanks so very much for getting me Bloomfield 's annotated NT , vol I. I 'm delighted to have it , and have just been spending some time revisiting a few cruces to see what explanations are offered . |
| 5 | And we have just been noticing that Brentano , like the British empiricist , John Locke , thinks of believing , expecting , hoping , and so on , as things — Locke called them ‘ operations ’ , Brentano called them ‘ phenomena ’ — as things we perceive in ourselves . |
| 6 | We have also been receiving wonderful gifts ongoing I hope from individual contributors . |
| 7 | Age patterns have also been undergoing major changes in recent years . |
| 8 | Matthews and his coworkers have also been trying high concentrations of VOCs in water — up to 100 ppm of each chlorinated solvent . |
| 9 | ‘ We in BP and Unipart have also been introducing each other to potential customers in the Ukraine and Russia . ’ |
| 10 | Other big firms , some of which are also informally relaxing their rules on unpaid leave for juniors , have also been making large-scale job cuts . |
| 11 | It would be easy to demonstrate , moreover , that all our judges , including those who decided our sample cases , have really been following that advice all along . |
| 12 | Magistrates in Didcot have today been hearing more cases against non-payers of the poll tax . |
| 13 | We have actually been spending net amounts similar to Scum , Scouse and Blackburn over this period . |
| 14 | In addition to these foods , I have recently been feeding frozen mice , which are available from shops which supply reptiles . |
| 15 | I have recently been making sculpted furniture , using a variety of power carving methods for fast timber removal . |