Example sentences of "[noun] they have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But other Jews … the ones who have suffered like your zeide … for centuries they have been praying ‘ To next year in Jerusalem ’ and meaning it . |
| 2 | They show the Deee-Lite dictionary they have been compiling — nearly 400 words that includes slang from around the world , Esperanto and Deee-Lite 's own language . |
| 3 | In the western provinces they have been distributing leaflets , many carrying the warning : Pros tvoeu chi , neari tvoeu pouch — ‘ We will make the men into fertiliser , and keep the women for reproduction ’ — to deter collaboration with the government . |
| 4 | read aloud to the class or teacher and talk about the books they have been reading ; |
| 5 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 8 | Over the past 18 months they have been arriving , hundreds at a time , crammed into cargo space and sometimes half-starved during a circuitous voyage . |
| 9 | In general these movements have operated only at grass-roots level , but in some areas they have been joining up to form networks of organisations of the urban poor . |
| 10 | And with Teddy Sheringham , back at the City ground for the first time since his move to Spurs , and Durie performing like statues , Forest quickly found the self-belief they have been lacking . |
| 11 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 12 | Since December they have been pouring from a new fissure in Etna , 7,500ft above sea level . |
| 13 | For several decades they have been studying superbly preserved fossils from the rocks of the Burgess shale , found in the Canadian Rockies , which are among the earliest fossils of complicated organisms . |
| 14 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 15 | CLEARING up operations began yesterday after a group of travellers moved , under the threat of eviction , from a site they have been occupying in the centre of the Co . |
| 16 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 17 | For a number of years they have been producing the yachts in their range in both standard and Master versions , the latter being more luxuriously appointed and intended for private ownership . |
| 18 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 19 | In the last 20 years they have been using invisible nylon gill nets half a mile long and more . |
| 20 | The forestry commission were once regarded as the covering the country with grand conifers but in the last twenty years they have been changing their ways , they now go half way to square yard their land . |
| 21 | For years they have been making effectively equity investments in developer traders at debt margins . |
| 22 | They have provided a wonderful opportunity to get to know dolphins in the wild , and several of the females have given birth over the years they have been frequenting Monkey Mia , thus enabling study of their maternal care and child development . |
| 23 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 24 | In general , most people reckon that the cost of credit they have been using is more or less as they had planned . |
| 25 | I 've watched Howard Kendall 's side recently , and the stuff they have been serving up has been bordering on the pathetic compared to earlier performances this season . |
| 26 | But despite severe financial problems they have been growing in number and now produce around 40 per cent of Israel 's agricultural output and almost seven per cent of its industrial goods . |
| 27 | FOR teenagers , Wayne 's World is just the video they have been waiting for . |
| 28 | talk to the teacher and each other about the books and stories they have been reading or listening to ; |
| 29 | By Claire 's watch they have been waiting eleven minutes . |
| 30 | ‘ The message they have been giving is totally irresponsible , ’ he said . |