Example sentences of "[num] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annie Griffin came to Britain from New York in 1980 as a student and since 1986 has been devising and performing original work for the theatre . |
| 2 | Joe Walker was famous for his record-breaking X-15 flights and was due to become NASA 's Chief Project Pilot on the XB-70. 20207 had been carrying many millions of dollars worth of sophisticated test equipment in the forward weapons bay for NASA — all of this was lost . |
| 3 | If 2 had been going to choose A , she would work out that 1 would plan to choose B , in which case she would change her planned action to whatever is the best response to B , so falsifying the initial assumption that she would choose A. Thus 1 can not persist in believing 2 will choose A if he knows that she is as rational and well-informed as he is . |
| 4 | But the odd rumour has gone round that Six has been operating someone big , someone quite high up in the KGB . |
| 5 | Arsenal 's slump since they took over the Premier League leadership on November 7 has been startling , but Graham admitted : ‘ I do n't even think about winning the title . |
| 6 | On Jan. 17 the 13-member tribunal , which since March 1991 had been hearing the case concerning the Bank of Crete , acquitted former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou of all the charges against him . |
| 7 | Of these , 44 had been taking delayed release mesalazine as the sole maintenance treatment for at least six months . |
| 8 | Madeline had spent 20 years in education and childcare management and for the last 10 had been running nine nurseries for a charity in London . |
| 9 | Ever since the pharmaceutical company for which he worked had given him the vehicle given , thought Henry grimly ) number 47 had been watching over it in a manner that suggested an emotion deeper than motherhood , more desperate than romantic love . |
| 10 | Since then , about 13,000 who took refuge in the Prague and Warsaw embassies have been transported to the West while 450 to 1,200 have been crossing daily through Hungary . |
| 11 | She was joined by Betsy M. Bryan , Alexander Badawy Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at The Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , who since 1984 has been collecting material on the position of women in New Kingdom society . |
| 12 | Legends of the nation ‘ standing alone ’ in 1940 had been damaging and illusory , contributions to ‘ the glamour of backwardness ’ . |
| 13 | Held motionless in zero gravity by the robots with no input of information whatever , the three had been undergoing sensory deprivation for the past hour . |
| 14 | In February the authorities had said that the three had been providing unspecified international agencies with information on human rights in Egypt and on public opinion with respect to the economic situation . |
| 15 | In January 1991 Özal antagonized conservative nationalist currents within the ANAP by easing restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language , hoping thereby to improve Turkey 's minority rights record and to undercut support for the Kurdistan Workers ' Party ( PKK ) , which since 1984 had been waging a violent campaign in support of separatist demands . |
| 16 | Sixty-seven parties fought the election of 1991 ; 29 won seats in parliament ; a dozen have been jockeying for seats in coalition governments . |
| 17 | All three have been attending Medau classes regularly for over a year now an have taken part in rallies etc . |
| 18 | The Marble Palace , a section of the Russian Museum , has seen an exhibition of works by Vladimir Nekrasov , who since 1976 has been living in America . |
| 19 | Even in the 1660s Charles II had been complaining in London that his correspondence with his sister , the Duchess of Orleans , was being regularly opened in the French post , while from about 1748 Louis XV himself began to take a good deal of interest in work of this kind . |
| 20 | It is clear that throughout the second half of 1184 Henry Ii had been seeking a solution to the problem of the succession . |
| 21 | Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north . |
| 22 | Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north . |
| 23 | Academics have been writing books and articles ; Charter 88 has been campaigning for constitutional reform ; citizenship is to be incorporated in the National Curriculum in the schools ; and a commission under the august patronage of the Speaker of the House of Commons published a report entitled Encouraging Citizenship in October 1990 . |
| 24 | The show emerged from the work of Arielle P. Kozloff , Cleveland 's Curator of Ancient Art , who since 1977 has been compiling a photographic census of eighteenth-century Theban wall paintings in the Valley of the Kings , with an aim towards identifying specific hands among the artisans . |
| 25 | In contrast , Channel Ten had been televising rugby league for 18 years until Channel Nine recently acquired future rights . |
| 26 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 27 | London had been given no such attention , but The London Society since 1912 had been undertaking work which was brought together in essays edited by Sir Aston Webb ( 1921 ) . |
| 28 | In a case of the class I have been considering , the creditor will often , I think , find itself in a position of having to explain the security transaction to the proposed surety if an unimpeachable security is to be obtained . |
| 29 | DHA 1 has been waiting patiently for a new DGH for 25 years . |
| 30 | Millwall with 5 wins in 8 have been roaring towards promotion , but on Saturday Brian Horton 's men were masters of the ring . |