Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem ironic to onlookers that the very parents who have been complaining loud and long about the difficulty of sharing their home with impossible teenage children , should be lamenting the fact that they 've left , only a few months later . |
| 2 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 3 | Now governments and cities are starting to listen to economists , who have been telling them for years that the use of road space should not be a free gift to motorists . |
| 4 | Not a classic illustration of the thesis of Aggleton and colleagues , who have been looking at the lifespans of cricketers and report a two-year gap in favour of right-handers , much of it ascribable to fewer deaths in accidents or in war . |
| 5 | They are the couple who have been looking after the twins , and it was they who first contacted my mother earlier this morning . |
| 6 | Here we are we have children who are paralysed , who have been looking after themselves while others have died . |
| 7 | ‘ We have customers who have been using the same set for more than 20 years , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Members range from major companies who have been using home-based workers for years to self-employed solicitors , translators and public relations people . |
| 9 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 10 | He said this would be paid for by ‘ speculators and those who have been living off the state like cannibals ’ . |
| 11 | Those who have been living near to parents or who have remained in very close touch with them , are going to feel the immediate absence of the parent they loved more keenly than those who have broken away from close family ties and kept up only a dutiful contact with father or mother . |
| 12 | The TV presenters , who have been living apart since May , sadly told of their decision to separate . |
| 13 | She is certainly not one of those who have been living on mung beans for as long as they can remember . |
| 14 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
| 15 | A number of his fellow Cheshires who have been serving in war-torn Bosnia were also honoured for their gallantry . |
| 16 | Gordon 's favours Umbrian juniper berries — and the Scarponis , who have been harvesting juniper for Gordon 's for over 40 years , use their local knowledge to find the very best juniper Umbria can offer . |
| 17 | Advertising revenue seems to be , there seems to be sometimes that there is some slight pick up , the advertising associations predicting a pick up there , one or two companies who have been reporting , have been talking about a little upturn in the first quarter of this year . |
| 18 | They have built up a list of people all over the world who have been sending them football songs and now send Beatles covers as well . |
| 19 | One Canadian official told New Scientist that scientists from the US have been replaced by ‘ people with less relevant experience , and some who have been acting as political commissars ’ . |
| 20 | I 'm Nick and I 'm the development director for Moat , responsible for all of our new development activities and I have with me tonight Sally our assistant development manager for Essex , who 'll be responsible for this project and also two of our consultants dealing with the scheme , Alan from Anglian Design who are acting as architects on the scheme and Howard from Space , who have been acting as our employer 's agent and consultant and will administer the building contract for , for all the phases of this , this project . |
| 21 | The water is intended to wash away the contamination of sacredness of persons who have been acting a priestly role . |
| 22 | Well , there will be a certain amount of explanation that will have to be done , because Geoffrey Howe is a well known , well liked figure among many people that I deal with er but now , and for some time now , for a year now , it 's I who have been dealing with them and I hope I 've inherited some of the work and some of the trust which he helped to create . |
| 23 | who have been receiving underpayments from their husbands when the courts maintenance agreements . |
| 24 | Manager Ted Pearce has not ruled out a merger with the reformed Shots who have been drawing crowds of more than 2,000 to the Recreation Ground after their blistering start in the Diadora League Division Three . |
| 25 | A MORE considered , romantic and melancholy version of the above , with Henry Fonda 's Wyatt Earp cleaning up the nightmarish town of Tombstone , making the community safe for the church-going , square-dancing just plain folks who have been hiding in the shadows while the Clanton gang runs riot . |
| 26 | I hope to visit relevant training programmes in the Philippines and Southern Africa , where possible participating as a trainee , in order to learn from the experience of those who have been undertaking this work for some years ; and to identify elements in the training processes which may be transferrable or adaptable to a UK situation . |
| 27 | The vast majority of them are non-Kuwaiti nationals leaving Kuwait , erm Bengalis , Thais , Sri Lankans , Phillipinos , erm never mind Arab nationals who have been leaving to Egypt , Sudan , Lebanon , Syria and Jordan themselves . |
| 28 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 29 | Mr Clarke effectively slapped down the Cabinet dissenters — John Redwood , Peter Lilley and Michael Portillo — who have been calling for the already-tight £254 billion spending target to be cut . |
| 30 | Mr Clarke effectively slapped down the Cabinet dissenters — John Redwood , Peter Lilley and Michael Portillo — who have been calling for the already-tight £254bn spending target to be cut . |