Example sentences of "[adv] they have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they have been finding our simulated version of you know , to be there early , and to be there late , and sometimes be there Saturday and Sunday as well . |
| 2 | Mr Fallon fired back : ‘ Education in this country is run by the councils and largely they have been running it very badly . |
| 3 | Q. I have two six-inch Temporales , which I bought as a pair when they were three inches long , and lately they have been showing signs of breeding , such as locking their jaws and tail slapping . |
| 4 | And increasingly they have been clustering into the outer South East . |
| 5 | Up until today they have been winning praise for the quality of their football but everything seemed to go wrong this afternoon . |
| 6 | So far today they have been studying how orders for an operation are given and the particular way in which the Army goes about explaining a complex undertaking . |
| 7 | " Maybe they have been drinking tizwin , " he said . |
| 8 | Since then they have been effecting a gradual programme of repair , restoration and alteration . |
| 9 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 10 | There they have been exploiting the advantages of low pollution , the ability to stop and restart every few hours — sorry , every few yards — and electric cars may be introduced as much for their ability to produce low pollution , low noise , and as petrol becomes more expensive and electric cars become more widespread and better engineered and more efficient and cheaper , and more socially acceptable , then I think we will see electric cars . |
| 11 | There they have been working with individual patients who , for one reason or another , spend most of their lives sitting down — some of them in wheelchairs , unable to walk at all . |
| 12 | As refugees from the war in Bosnia this holiday camp at Korcula near Dubrovnik is in stark contrast to the camps where they have been living . |
| 13 | A group of them , maybe as many as half a dozen , will slowly get to their feet from where they have been lying with the rest of the pride and , leaving the cubs and the males behind , walk off in a fashion which , although leisurely , has a grimly purposeful air . |
| 14 | I 've filmed the training sessions where they have been practising collapsing on purpose to cancel out our traditional strength in this department . |
| 15 | Wherever they have been operating , persons whose dishonesty has infringed the criminal law , on the basis of reliable and admissible evidence , will continue to be prosecuted . |