Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Church & Co has been producing shoes in Northampton since 1873 and here is an excellent opportunity to see the many processes that make up the manufacture of men 's welted shoes . |
| 2 | It would not have been followed by the effect if some other event or condition had been missing . ) |
| 3 | Mr Robertson suggested the possible end of timber-cutting in 62 out of 156 national forests , covering 24m hectares ( 59m acres ) of land , where cutting has been costing more to administer than the Forest Service has been able to recoup from sales . |
| 4 | If characters who have the ability to speak either prose or verse have been talking prose among themselves , or if the medium is prose for some other reason , the entry of a person of rank or status can be the signal for the move to the higher level . |
| 5 | They must be the ones that Mum had been eating when you I came in . |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 7 | The paper says that Sun has been working on the project for two and a half years under the code-name Green at its SunLabs unit under former Apple Computer Inc executive Wayne Rosing , and is forming a new company , First Person Inc , to exploit it . |
| 8 | Gabriel went back to her table , conscious that Cat had been listening , but probably could n't make more of it than he already knew . |
| 9 | The rise means that wealth has been increasing faster than incomes . |
| 10 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 11 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 12 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |
| 13 | He put aside being lonely for a moment , and realized that hunger had been waiting for an opportunity to make-itself felt . |
| 14 | Following this direct action , BP Coal flew in its executives to meet LAG , a meeting that LAG had been attempting to organize for a year and a half . |
| 15 | Welcome back : For hundreds of years people with more money than sense have been putting up strange buildings on their land that seem to have no point whatsoever . |
| 16 | This administration believes that government has been attempting to do too much . |
| 17 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman is aware of the fact that unemployment has been rising in most European Community countries and that it is higher than it was a year ago in every EFTA and G7 country . |
| 18 | Sure enough , next day saw a procession , only Lamb and Hussain passing thirty , although Smith batted for an hour with a broken finger and it was revealed that Hussain had been playing for five weeks with a broken bone in his wrist and Lamb had a cracked elbow . |
| 19 | I know from my personal experience of the valuable work that Apex has been doing . |
| 20 | Volunteers from both east and west have been making mercy missions to the thousands of refugess caught up in the fighting . |
| 21 | On the second day of the Macari trial at Winchester Crown Court , Swindon players past and present have been giving evidence . |
| 22 | Scanner appeal co-ordinator Jack Froggatt said : ‘ The town centre bombings raised awareness of the need for a scanner in Warrington and money has been coming in much quicker since then . ’ |
| 23 | But the truth is that if Parliament had been sitting , Mellor would have gone weeks ago . |
| 24 | That 's what I 'm worried about : if your people are … working along those lines again , and Dot 's been helping out , somebody might think she 'd got your lists . |
| 25 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 26 | There can be little doubt that since the 1944 Act , and more particularly since 1974 , power and influence have been moving significantly from the local scene to the national stage . |
| 27 | Non-pay items such as drugs and equipment have been running above 7 per cent as inflation generally has risen . |
| 28 | Negotiations between the National Trust and MoD have been taking place for two years and have reached a critical stage . |
| 29 | Now he 'd know she and Candy had been discussing him . |
| 30 | Burgon and Ball have been making shears in Sheffield for over 200 . |