Example sentences of "[coord] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that she actually has officially erm the Prime Minister 's political adviser briefs her on events in the war , or has been briefing her . |
| 2 | Or has been going in the past , and violence obviously can result in serious injury or at least death . |
| 3 | There 's some worry about something — either he 's not going to be able to do the work , someone 's going to laugh or has been laughing at him , he does n't think the teacher 's going to understand , and it 's generally a terrible problem first thing in the morning to get him to get ready and get to school . |
| 4 | Patients were excluded if they had evidence of intestinal obstruction , previous gastric surgery , a contraindication to steroid treatment , or had been receiving more than 7.5 mg prednisolone/ day at the time of relapse . |
| 5 | If other members of the psychogeriatric team had agreed that the development officer should try to support some of these clients , or had been pressing to have them discharged , she would undoubtedly have agreed to try . |
| 6 | Other regions were much richer in cropland and pasture , with good timber and fisheries , and there people prospered and multiplied , or had been doing , it was clear , under this King 's guidance . |
| 7 | Whether you have just moved into a new home or have been living in the same place for years the main thing is that you are alone and you must make your home your pride , your joy , your sanctuary . |
| 8 | In case you had n't figured it out already , or have been vacationing in the Amazon rain forest , ACE is well and truly dead . |
| 9 | Certainly , if you 're familiar with earlier versions of Paradox or have been benchmarking the competition , Version 4 seems remarkably swift.It 's all down to a substantial rewrite , particularly of the disk caching . |
| 10 | If you have been told to aim for a very precise figure , or have been following conventional height-to-weight charts , then you are almost definitely trying for an unrealistic weight . |
| 11 | About 90% of rural adults in Mexico have friends or relatives who are or have been working in the United States . |
| 12 | However , as recently as last week , IBM is said to have realised that its shell technology does not comply with the Object Management Group Common Object Request Broker specifications and has been urging Hewlett-Packard to throw its Object Group-compliant Distributed Object Management Facility into the pot . |
| 13 | However , as recently as last week , IBM is said to have realised that its shell technology does not comply with the Object Management Group CORBA specifications and has been urging HP to throw its OMG-compliant Distributed Object Management Facility into the pot . |
| 14 | As for Master Gates , he came home a war hero and has been enjoying the fruits of his fame ever since . ’ |
| 15 | The former Villa player sustained the injury in a European tie against Panathanikos recently and has been undergoing intensive treatment . |
| 16 | The 29-year-old has been suffering from the problem for several weeks , and has been undergoing regular physiotherapy treatment . |
| 17 | The company launched a a direct VAX-to-Alpha binary translator last November and has been shipping an R-series-to-Alpha translator for the last three months . |
| 18 | The company launched a direct VAX-to-Alpha binary translator last November and has been shipping an R-series-to-Alpha translator for the last three months . |
| 19 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 20 | The Neon Tetra ( Paracheirodon innesi ) is one of the most popular aquarium fish and has been topping the charts since the 1930s . |
| 21 | The Government needs to find extra money from somewhere and has been considering all sorts of options . |
| 22 | The company was a victim of the mania for leveraged buyouts of the late 1980s and has been staggering under its burden of debt . |
| 23 | Barrington has taken over as the Squash Racquets Association 's Director of Excellence , and has been passing on the benefit of his vast experience to young British players like Marshall , Chris Walker ( world ranked 10 ) , Del Harris ( 11 ) , and Simon Parke ( 12 ) . |
| 24 | Bea , 68 , wants to move to London from Hollywood , and has been trying out future homes over here . |
| 25 | The man behind the take-over bid is understood to be a key figure in the Jersey tourist industry and has been trying unsuccessfully for years to get a Channel Island summer soccer tournament off the ground . |
| 26 | His death comes amid a widening split in the party between his loyalists and supporters of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif , who leads a coalition government led by the PML and has been trying to take over the party leadership . |
| 27 | China is North Korea 's closest ally and has been trying to defuse recent tensions . |
| 28 | Saddam Hussein disagrees with what the Kurds would like and has been trying to eradicate them from Iraq by killing them with his powerful army . |
| 29 | She 's twenty-three and has been nursing babies since she was fourteen . |
| 30 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |