Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [v-ing] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 2 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 3 | Millions of parents have been saying this for months . |
| 4 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 5 | Tod 's been doing this quite a bit lately — grunting : Shtib . |
| 6 | BANKS have been reeling this week with the news that customer complaints to the industry 's Ombudsman have risen by 60 per cent . |
| 7 | Theologians have been arguing this for two thousand years … ’ |
| 8 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 9 | And this is what TV viewers have been watching this year … |
| 10 | Hundreds of people have been auditioning this week for the chance to be one of the faces in the crowd . |
| 11 | Probably , most people have been doing this for ages , but I ca n't remember seeing it , so if it helps anyone , great . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State has been awaiting this advice for sometime . |
| 13 | Apparently the old man has been hammering this into them for weeks . ’ |
| 14 | A consultative panel on badgers has been meeting this week ; it 'll make recomendations to the Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , which may include the introduction of widespread TB testing . |
| 15 | One or another young kid has been watching this place since I left . |
| 16 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 17 | Geoff Boucher has been running this unofficial sanctuary for more than four years . |
| 18 | Following upon the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , a whole succession of English bishops had been publishing this legislation and adding to it their own diocesan statutes ; Pecham himself in 1281 drew upon the legislation of two archbishops — Langton ( 1222 ) and Boniface ( 1261 ) — and two papal legates — Otto ( 1237 ) and Ottobuono ( 1268 ) . |
| 19 | Me and all my friends had been having this really great scuttle . |
| 20 | Seaside entrepreneurs had been feeding this appetite , building this market , for several generations already . |
| 21 | Violet Mapping had been running this massage parlour for five years . |
| 22 | Keyboard players have been doing this for years , but it 's a revelation to most guitarists . |
| 23 | And I think Peter 's been saying this for almost well since he 's come back anyway that , I ca n't work because the stock figures have not been updated . |
| 24 | Volunteers at the centre have been videoing this pair of kingfishers and so far it looks as though the experiment is a success . |
| 25 | he erm , he 's given Stuart our phone number and Stuart 's been shouting this , this is Geoff 's phone number I mean he 's , he 's been telling every body our phone number , I says yeah you just let somebody ring us up and I 'll bloody well be round their house like a shot if they phone , they |
| 26 | The West Germans had been using this technique to stimulate postwar rebuilding since the 1950s , and the Department of the Environment clearly saw some parallels . |
| 27 | The Edinburgh Green Belt Trust has been discussing this matter with its funding partners and it will be important for David Oldham to discuss the various views with the Urban Forestry Advisory Group . |
| 28 | William IV died shortly afterwards and it has been written that , a search being instituted , it was found that that bluff and breezy monarch had been using this unique ancient artifact as a shaving mug ! |
| 29 | Here , here , I second that on H on page thirty one very important one , the county council welcomes the recognition by the joint working party of the importance of meaningful support services to the elected members and the recomme recommendation that the Secretary of State should review and clarify the powers of local authorities to meet costs of services provided to members to enable them to carry out their duties as councillors Now the erm members appointments , appointments of member services sub have been discussing this issue and I would like to point out to members that we are not claiming the amount allowable for the paying members allowances we erm we 're way below the limit that 's allowable by the government Now before anyone say well what have you done about it ? |
| 30 | Since the start of the summer the papers have been saying this and that about us . |