Example sentences of "[conj] [det] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 2 | There is no doubt that that has been happening in the country at large and that they have now been rumbled . |
| 3 | When assessing your budget plans , it is as well to err on the cautious side as regards the additional income you will be likely to earn as — although this has been improving — many so called ‘ retirement jobs ’ are notoriously badly paid . |
| 4 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 5 | ‘ 63 teams from all over the UK took part , and it was clear that many had been training for months . |
| 6 | Page 31 Decline encouraging : The $142m deline in Britain 's reserves of gold and foreign exchange to $42.88bn was less than many had been fearing . |
| 7 | ‘ The … ah … manner in which they were found would seem to indicate that both had been drinking heavily . |
| 8 | Gentlemen ushers in knee-length black tunics fuss about , directing last-minute guests to their seats , although most have been waiting for the best part of an hour , making stilted smalltalk to conceal their pride . |
| 9 | There has been one very disturbing factor in keeping this particular type of fish , and that has been discovering the incredible cruelty that is sometimes used in order to increase the sale of them . |
| 10 | This would require a great deal of organisation to ensure compatibility of all the units involved , but ICAO did a similar thing many years ago with ILS air and ground equipment and that has been working successfully now for over thirty-five years . |
| 11 | See , they 've put that million pound into into a fund for him and that 's been getting erm |
| 12 | Were open I mean there 's been lots of things done like that I mean you maybe aware of this sort of jazz in the Gilbey bar on Saturday lunch time and that 's been running some time then it 'll cease to come back again you know if you 'll actually counting on the people actually coming cos of the jazz there I think as your looking at it it was slightly up it was n't a was n't great influx because there was jazz available so yeah we 'll certainly look introducing things into different areas of the theatre but from past experience it does n't automatically follow that if you can do that then you know it 's gon na happen . |
| 13 | Some organisations already implement voluntary eco-audits , and some have been piloting the new British Standard 7750 . |
| 14 | I believe generally good teams are built around a strong defence and this has been lacking all season . |
| 15 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 16 | We wondered if this had been going on since we were moved out of Beirut last May , but there was nothing else to indicate any serious set-back to our chances of release . |
| 17 | If this has been leaking for some time then the transfer box is probably low on oil . |
| 18 | And do you think , if this has been going on all the years it must have , he 's going to stop now ? |
| 19 | Both will be attempting to reach Montpellier this year and both have been trying to experience as much professional golf as they can during the past year . |
| 20 | ‘ He had been working well with Pat 's Jester at home and both have been going extremely well . ’ |
| 21 | They came mainly from Stockholm or , at least , southern Sweden and most had been trudging these paths for decades . |
| 22 | Er but that 's been taking about six years now |
| 23 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 24 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 25 | All seven have full-time jobs but all have been averaging about 50 miles a week in training recently . |
| 26 | Although based in Edinburgh , not one of the quartet is actually Scottish , but all have been playing dance music in that city for many years . |
| 27 | Now , while this had been happening to the fisherman , his poor dumb wife was left alone in the lonely hut . |
| 28 | It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house . |
| 29 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |