Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At all material times he and his family have been homeless within the meaning of section 58 of the Housing Act 1985 and have been living in temporary accommodation provided by the council , the local housing authority , under section 63 of the Act . |
| 2 | I was playing against the West Indies and I scored eight off a Cummins over without hitting a four , and for Natal |I 've build some 80s and 90s that have been matchwinning performances , but this time I 've just got far too excited ’ . |
| 3 | LCH was incorporated as a company in 1888 and has been providing market services continuously for more than a century . |
| 4 | You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement . |
| 5 | According to a recent Hollywood Reporter piece , the Runt is currently labelless but has been working on a project which has been hailed as the first interactive album . |
| 6 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 7 | Rigglesford said Hawkins seemed depressed and had been crying . |
| 8 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 9 | Six patients are still alive and have been undergoing tratment for 5.5–24 months ( median 15 months ) . |
| 10 | Wood missed the tour through injury , but is now fully fit and has been working hard in the nets over the last three days . |
| 11 | Well Tony Primmer 's an Australian and has been riding at Eastbourne and we were looking at him prior to this erm sort of amalgamation that came in because erm with our friendship with Bob Dugard , and looking for younger riders , he was sort of earmarked to come here at some stage . |
| 12 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 13 | ‘ He joined the RAF when he was 17 and had been flying 35 years . |
| 14 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
| 15 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
| 16 | Yes but then thinking about those that have been running for some time . |
| 17 | Because of the selective nature of migration , areas that have been growing rapidly tend to have very different population profiles from those that have been declining , the latter generally having below-average representations of young families , owner-occupiers and high-income professionals . |
| 18 | She 's twenty-three and has been nursing babies since she was fourteen . |
| 19 | The first course began in 1978 and has been recruiting satisfactorily ever since on an annual basis . |
| 20 | And on days when you feel altogether too slobby either to run or swim , you can weigh yourself , confident in the knowledge that because you have cut out all alcohol and fat and have been doing the running and swimming , your weight will have fallen . |
| 21 | ‘ The revenue importance of such taxes is small and has been decreasing . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that GP fund-holding has been proving successful and has been extending quite dramatically . |
| 23 | Mrs Bootyman said Naomi had visited the weekend before her death on January 14 and had been acting differently . |
| 24 | ‘ Since the late Sixties , ’ says Richard , ‘ the women have become more active and have been standing up for themselves , as is only right , but men have become more passive . |
| 25 | Mr Telford , who took redundancy from the pit in 1988 and had been working as a mining contractor at Rossington , near Doncaster , allegedly threatened a man with the gun to gain entry . |
| 26 | The company was a victim of the mania for leveraged buyouts of the late 1980s and has been staggering under its burden of debt . |
| 27 | My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years . |
| 28 | David Salter , eighth last year and fifth in 1991 , will be joined again by Tom McKeith , who was third in the initial Ipswich success in 1990 but has been missing since . |
| 29 | Japanese banks were all-powerful in the 1980s but have been reducing their international involvement for the past 18 months in order to focus on their domestic problems . |