Example sentences of "[pron] has be [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 2 | The user can also lock out his floppy disk drive or input-output port , if the computer 's log-in count indicates someone has been using it illicitly . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sorry , cariad , ’ he said wearily , sinking into a chair , ‘ I 've done my best to keep things going but someone has been poaching my customers . |
| 4 | Somebody has been spraying my aftershave . |
| 5 | The company already applies its US parent 's ‘ Earthsense ’ creed which has been spreading its ‘ reduce , re-use and recycle ’ message for several years ( thousands of US freshmen are not given an Earthsense re-usable beaker at the beginning of their college careers in the hope of steering them away from disposables ) . |
| 6 | Investors do not usually grasp the minutiae of the trading experiences of the businesses in which they invest , but it is unsettling when a company such as Pentos , which has been proclaiming its readiness to do battle with the big boys over the Net Book Agreement , has a financial setback . |
| 7 | He remains synonymous with Manchester United which is more than will ever be said about the principal figures in that disturbing saga of boardroom intrigue which has been occupying our attention this season . |
| 8 | Many Mediterranean fishermen have been subsidised into the use of drift-nets through the European Community , which has been paying them to convert from bottom trawling — supposedly because of its detrimental effects on the seabed . |
| 9 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 10 | And we have constitution since nineteen sixty two , which is a democratic constitution , which has been governing our country unlike our neighbours . |
| 11 | Since the object of the session in the first place was to play a part in helping the patient to deal successfully with a problem which has been troubling him , provided the session fulfils that role we do not need to worry unduly about whether it was a real regression experience or not ( although , as I have already stated , I feel quite strongly that the majority of cases are indeed genuine ) . |
| 12 | ‘ On the very eve of going to press we are happy to be able to announce what promises to be a satisfactory solution of the lady member problem which has been troubling us . |
| 13 | At a ceremony attended by Chris Green , managing director of InterCity , locomotive 91003 which operates on the high-speed East Coast route will be given the name of this newspaper which has been celebrating its 175th anniversary . |
| 14 | Improved cost control — nowadays more important than ever for local businesses — as invoices can list who has been buying what and when on your Shell account , and the card can remove the need to settle your account with cash or cheques . |
| 15 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
| 16 | I 'm happy to say I 'm going to marry the young man who has been courting me , Sergeant Troy . |
| 17 | There is a Swede called Birger Dahlerus who has been aiding him . |
| 18 | Tigrett , who sold the Hard Rock chain and set up the charitable Rama Foundation , falls readily into the cranky crackpot mould : he is even married to Maureen , former wife of Ringo Starr who has been supporting his friend George Harrison 's Natural Law Party . |
| 19 | Ivars has spoken of a Soviet based in the country who has been building what he terms a ‘ Sky Bug ’ but what we in the FlyPast office think must be a Flying Flea of sorts . |
| 20 | Firms may not wish to prosecute an employee who has been fiddling them but may prefer to deal with the matter informally , to avoid bad publicity or appearing inefficient and the Possible loss of the confidence of their clients . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |
| 23 | ‘ And who has been filling you with canards about Honoria Greville ? |
| 24 | But who has been clutching whom ? |
| 25 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 26 | Mention earlier of the out-and-out-all-round entertainer , Mr Donovan leads me to Miss Kylene Minogue , the law of diminishing returns , who has been turning her thoughts to matters matrimonial . |
| 27 | The chateau of Pau was the birthplace of King Henry IV of France , who has been edging his way into my text all along . |
| 28 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 29 | It is widely assumed that the general , who has been doing his best to fan the speculation , will try to become prime minister after he leaves the army . |
| 30 | ‘ These show who has been doing it . ’ |