Example sentences of "[verb] been have [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 2 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately . |
| 4 | ‘ He has been having a good rest , and by the time the middle of next month comes round when the big money tournaments start , he wo n't be knackered like some of the others . |
| 5 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 6 | MELVYN BRAGG has been having a busy year . |
| 7 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 8 | The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late . |
| 9 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 10 | Not everyone has been having a bad recession , and not everyone believes they must prune radically their investment and marketing budget . |
| 11 | The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity . |
| 12 | Micro Focus has been had an object-oriented research programme under way since 1989 to explore what it really means to have re-usable code in practice . |
| 13 | Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered . |
| 14 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 15 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 16 | So your ideal system would have been to have a few strategic Cabinet committees beneath the Cabinet that would have done all the most controversial business ? |
| 17 | As for the levels of owner occupation , there are 3.5 million more owner-occupiers today than there were in 1979 and no doubt 3.5 million more than there would have been had the right hon. Gentleman been in government . |
| 18 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 19 | It would just have been having a good time . |
| 20 | These subjects may therefore have been having the same sorts of experience as " dreamers " , but did not label their REM sleep experiences as " dreams " , but " thinking " . |
| 21 | ‘ All the more reason why he should have been having the full attention of you both , ’ Doctor Staples said sharply . |
| 22 | Plan A almost fell at the first fence as Trippy and the rest of the squat seemed to have been having an end-of-season sale in Trippy 's medicine chest . |
| 23 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
| 24 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 25 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |
| 26 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 27 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 28 | ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ? |
| 29 | At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit . |
| 30 | As Maisie and Mr Malik 's relative were clearing away the destruction ( the Huysan twins had been having a mashed-potato fight with school spoons ) , he made his way up to the headmaster 's study . |