Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] has be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicola , dressed in jeans and a white polo-neck sweater , left Blackpool 's Victoria Hospital where she has been undergoing tests this morning to be driven by an ambulance car with her parents to North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 2 | One thing I think I know now , though — where she has been hiding all this time . |
| 3 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 4 | Not allowing yourself or your children to be passengers in a car if the driver is the primary sufferer and he or she has been drinking . |
| 5 | He or she has been eating a very large quantity of food and has recently embarked on a calorie-counting slimming programme . |
| 6 | An elderly person has very delicate skin ; and if he or she has been lying or sitting in bed all day , they may develop pressure sores on the bony parts of the body — the base of the spine , the heels , the elbows or on the shoulders . |
| 7 | It may be that he or she has been working quietly away in the background or it could be a single , dramatic act of true heroism in harrowing circumstances that we hear about but often goes unrewarded . |
| 8 | A person who has a migraine or who has been spinning round and round , may feel as if he is reeling over , although there is no movement to be seen by people watching him . |
| 9 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 10 | Over the weekend he has been at the Spring Thing folk festival at Darlington Arts Centre , where he has been selling home-made ear-rings and Asian crafts . |
| 11 | Labour 's bash will be at 4 Millbank , where it has been holding its morning press conferences . |
| 12 | FOR the first time in more than 20 years the Drummond Locomotive Society 's Class M7 locomotive No. 30053 hauled a passenger train at the East Anglian Railway Museum where it has been undergoing major restoration work . |
| 13 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 14 | Either he has just woken up or he has been grinding his face into his pillow . |
| 15 | Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches . |
| 16 | ‘ The figures mean that someone has been defrauding the company and it was n't Craig Grenfell because if you look at the dates you 'll see that the fiddling went on even when Craig was in prison . ’ |
| 17 | And thirdly , I have certain highly specialized information about this planet , worrying enough in itself , that somebody has been trying to prise from my mind . |
| 18 | When you put all these factors together it concerns me that nobody has been advancing the case that as with other districts , some other districts in York , it would be appropriate , even more appropriate in my view , that the migration assumption should be discounted , there are in my view special reasons why this should be the case , special reasons over and above tho those that have been applied , to the other districts , this in my view would be that the Greater York housing provision for all those reasons I 've just highlighted , should be reduced , should be reduced to the seventy five percent level , in other words that would be reducing it by between a thousand and twelve hundred and fifty houses , now I wo n't get on to the reason that the fact that that 's one reason why there 's no need for a new settlement , erm but it is a reason in its own right just to protect the character and the capacity requirements and the environmental sensitivities of the Greater York area . |
| 19 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 20 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 21 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 22 | One might almost think , says Robert — our Robert , must I call him ? — that she has been directing affairs herself ! |
| 23 | When it emerges that she has been doing her voluntary work in York for just six years , her enormous commitment becomes clear . |
| 24 | When the same scene happens night after night , his mother realizes that she has been doing the wrong thing , so instead she puts him to bed no matter how long or hard he cries . |
| 25 | Analysis of the nuclear DNA of the mole salamander Ambystoma has shown that there has been crossing with males of related sexual species . |
| 26 | He said in a Commons written reply that there has been mounting concern over the costs of veterinary supervision , with hourly fees reaching £40 . |
| 27 | Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains . |
| 28 | ‘ Its concentration on domestic mortgages makes it more like a building society than a bank and , although it has been making losses with the rest of them , it has just managed to climb back into profitability . ’ |
| 29 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 30 | Although it has been declining slightly among men under 65 during the past 20 years , it is still rising in women . |