Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] has be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 2 | Then she marched back to the front of the class , dusting off her hands one against the other like someone who has been handling something rather grimy . |
| 3 | There are no clear-cut signs and symptoms that will identify someone who has been sniffing . |
| 4 | Oh sir , do you look at me and say you see someone who has been doing the ill-treating ? ’ |
| 5 | If someone else is living in your home , for example someone who has been caring for you , this may also mean the value is not taken into account . |
| 6 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 7 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 9 | There has been , over the course of this century , an increase in the number of elderly people , in the levels of pension available from private funds and the state , and in the number of people leaving work , voluntarily or through redundancy , before the accepted retirement age ( which itself has been failing ) . |
| 10 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 11 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 12 | Crews are fairly divided according to age and experience , and all 130 competitors had to raise £14,850 for their berth — Justine is jointly sponsored by Price Waterhouse and Blackburn-based accountancy firm Porter Matthews and Marsden , for which she has been working . |
| 13 | This weekend she has another opportunity to show her talent , and a special throw which she has been perfecting , when she competes in the British Open at Crystal Palace . |
| 14 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 15 | One field in which there has been misunderstanding , and which has attracted some adverse publicity , has been the provision of sheltered housing . |
| 16 | But more important than that , the title also represented a triumph in the battle against time which he has been waging since he learned that he might soon be forced to quit the Tour . |
| 17 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 18 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |
| 19 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 20 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 21 | He also enthuses about the extraordinary steam trains he has recently seen for himself , reading from a journal which he has been writing while away . |
| 22 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
| 23 | A survey of the career of Robert Ryman , the American artist noted for the white paintings which he has been making for nearly forty years , is the most significant exhibition of contemporary art to be taking place in London this spring . |
| 24 | An iconoclast , Engel may find the job sedate after the hurly-burly of the general election , which he has been covering for his newspaper . |
| 25 | That has been a reflection of the numerical constraints under which it has been operating . |
| 26 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 27 | However , I am confident that the European Community will continue to progress in the direction in which it has been driving — and rightly so — for the benefit of all our citizens and citizens on the mainland of Europe . |
| 28 | The ESO has the advantage of offering greater scope for really getting to the root of truancy problems by keeping the education welfare service in close contact with the families with which it has been working . |
| 29 | ( a ) A wrasse emerging from the mouth of a grouper ( Plectrotromus maculatus ) which it has been cleaning up . |
| 30 | Sir Stephen Brown , President of the Family Division , was hearing arguments from lawyers representing the 14-year-old girl , who can not be named , her parents and the mother of the 18-year-old boyfriend who she has been living with . |