Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 4 | Since the 1950s parents have been accumulating more ( and always better ) consumer goods , domestic appliances , automobiles and luxuries . |
| 5 | Millions of parents have been saying this for months . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If Barnes is this irreplaceable in the nation 's best club side it again raises the question of what England have been missing all these years . |
| 8 | It is as much as US companies have been spending each year to advertise cigarettes … |
| 9 | The increase will not be matched by dividend rises — too many companies have been paying more than they could afford over the past two years and need to repair their reserves and ratios — but 7 p.c. growth looks reasonable . |
| 10 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 11 | In brief , the four regions of the South have been absorbing all the ( admittedly rather limited ) national increase in population and have been pulling in people from the rest of Britain . |
| 12 | But few Japanese beverage companies yet make drinks-cans with tab openers that remain attached to the cans — even though companies in the US and Canada have been manufacturing these for almost 15 years . |
| 13 | Air Force doctors from Wroughton in Wiltshire have been examining those selected for the airlift . |
| 14 | State governments have been closing these hospital based services to help save money on their capped budgets , on the assumption that patients will be able to obtain such services in the community , funded by the open ended Medicare budget from the federal government . |
| 15 | BANKS have been reeling this week with the news that customer complaints to the industry 's Ombudsman have risen by 60 per cent . |
| 16 | Floods have been causing more problems for motorists . |
| 17 | Theologians have been arguing this for two thousand years … ’ |
| 18 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 19 | As the UNCTC notes , ‘ the sharp decline in FDI flows to developing countries does not mean that TNCs have been ignoring those areas . |
| 20 | For months , American executives have been reviewing all aspects of the airline for cost savings . |
| 21 | And this is what TV viewers have been watching this year … |
| 22 | Hundreds of people have been auditioning this week for the chance to be one of the faces in the crowd . |
| 23 | Probably , most people have been doing this for ages , but I ca n't remember seeing it , so if it helps anyone , great . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ Throughout the 1980s more people have been working each year in Darlington . |
| 25 | More recently , record company and music publishing A&R staff have been assessing much of the same talent from different standpoints . |
| 26 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 27 | The KM rides have been attracting more participants every year — and the strain on the facilities is beginning to tell . |
| 28 | Keyboard players have been doing this for years , but it 's a revelation to most guitarists . |
| 29 | While the employment rates of lone mothers have been falling those of married mothers have been rising . |
| 30 | Volunteers at the centre have been videoing this pair of kingfishers and so far it looks as though the experiment is a success . |