Example sentences of "[noun] have be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | OVER the last two weeks special couriers have been delivering mysterious brown paper packages to literary editors around London . |
| 32 | For behind the public posturings , there 's no doubt that both of these gentlemen have been having more than a little local difficulty with their respective parties . |
| 33 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 34 | The world 's top fashion designers have been creating spectacular outfits to help raise funds for the charity Oxfam in its fiftieth year . |
| 35 | Recently , car manufacturers have been offering big discounts in a bid to sell more in a depressed market . |
| 36 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 37 | But already candidates have been holding informal sessions , enticing potential voters with great banquets of slaughtered sheep . |
| 38 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 39 | Farther north , in the Jaffna peninsula , where the rebels are strong , government aircraft have been bombing civilian areas . |
| 40 | ‘ Fan have been growing bored with the sex and drugs and rock and roll syndrome . |
| 41 | To talk up the prospects of change , some note that Japanese life insurers have been demanding bigger dividends lately . |
| 42 | ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years . |
| 43 | ‘ Alexei has been diverting all his energy towards our venture . |
| 44 | THE Bill Wells Octet has been exploring some unusual stylistic directions in the context of the Scottish jazz scene , but this appearance did not live up to expectations . |
| 45 | Russia has been showing former dissidents and émigrés in Moscow 's and St Petersburg 's best museums but almost all the exhibitions have had Western sponsors . |
| 46 | The Metropolitan Museum has been examining some of its most treasured paintings with the aid of the latest technology , and it has come up with a result which confounds the hitherto accepted history of art . |
| 47 | And our consultant has been running varied recycling for the last four years , and they are currently recycling seventy percent of the waste in that town . |
| 48 | Wrexham Maelor council has been collecting historical and architectural items of interest for a decade . |
| 49 | British Telecom has been installing extra lines ‘ in terraced houses all over the capital ’ so that some stockbrokers , bankers and insurance agents can work from home . |
| 50 | The rise means that wealth has been increasing faster than incomes . |
| 51 | However , now in the hands of Cyril Stein 's Ladbroke group , Vernons has been making bullish noises about capturing extra market share . |
| 52 | Police said that their two accomplices arrested in Ireland had been carrying several addresses of safe houses in France . |
| 53 | A Planning Committee had been meeting weekly in 1969 , but the College had not wanted to be too rigid in imposing teaching methods . |
| 54 | Previously Gould had been making other extraordinary discoveries from Darwin 's collection . |
| 55 | He had spent many pleasant evenings here ; and Catherine 's parents had been trusting enough to withdraw to the morning room , leaving them alone together . |
| 56 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 57 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 58 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 59 | One family tea-time , when Auntie had been sitting silent for some time , she said : " It 's lucky there 's never anyone left in those offices at night . " |
| 60 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |