Example sentences of "[adv] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regional officers also wrote to the Chilean authorities calling for the prompt introduction of legislation which will give official licenses to the many community radio and TV stations that hitherto have been operating under severe restrictions . |
| 2 | Next Saturday my Medau friend Camilla and I are each going to swim 100 lengths non-stop ( as the ‘ Medau Duo ’ ) in the national charity swimming marathon ( as you might guess , it 's called a ‘ swimathon ’ ) , so have been collecting sponsors , which is rather more arduous than doing the actual swimming . |
| 3 | But that 's cold comfort to the players who for the past two months or so have been attempting to qualify for the PGA European Tour . |
| 4 | Independent British film makers from all over have been writing letters of complaint . |
| 5 | The metric system was then built up on the decimal system , which you already have been studying . |
| 6 | Celebrities also have been voicing their opinions of the end to the ‘ fairytale romance ’ . |
| 7 | Newcastle though have been flying all season … on top of the table since September they 've lost just one of their last ten league games … some thought they were beginning to slip … five goals against Brentford last weekend proved that Kevin Keegan 's team are still the ones to beat … |
| 8 | So , did you , should you have really have been helping them ? |
| 9 | ‘ I really have been trying my best — ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We have used our experience and our ability to sharpen up our image and our content and for six months now have been using full colour every week . ’ |
| 11 | In the centre of the front two Iraqi oil wells and a gas well have been burning in no-man's-land since the last days of the war . |
| 12 | More than a hundred children who survived the Chernobyl nuclear disaster seven years ago have been experiencing life in rural England . |
| 13 | The last thing I heard you say before I left the receiver to its own devices was something like ‘ Some of us here have been reading your books … ’ |
| 14 | GCSE students here have been studying the truancy problem . |
| 15 | A large number of smaller companies there have been receiving regional selective assistance since the middle 1980s . |
| 16 | I was stuck in hospital for three weeks and since then have been shuffling around behind that thing . ’ |
| 17 | The travellers who 've moved on voluntarily have been creating problems elsewhere . |
| 18 | In a small way , private schemes also exist in Maryland and Ohio , though these too have been struggling of late . |
| 19 | Recently , even those outlets have been drying up because they too have been selling the big breweries ' beer in return for cheap loans . |
| 20 | But they too have been losing this battle . |
| 21 | BP 's customers too have been following the trend by producing their plastic products more efficiently . |
| 22 | Salerooms too have been resisting over-exposed trade pictures unless at realistic reserves . |
| 23 | Although numbers have declined , 14 of them still survive , and recently have been appearing in colourful advertising liveries , as seen on this page . |
| 24 | See , you see it 's okay this guy being funny like that but we er we , I think we 've got every right to be D' ya mean if we had n't actually have been starting the work , heaven knows how long it would have been before we 'd actually got the invoices paid ! |