Example sentences of "[conj] have been [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roy Mackintosh is MD of a local foundry that has been supplying Pringle 's with castings for many years . |
| 2 | She smiled to herself , reflecting that this was the question that had been torturing Richard all his life . |
| 3 | 1991 , 27 , 1151 ) failed to mention that the special exhibition on the work of Sir William Henry Perkin was in addition to a poster exhibition that had been touring Essex and east London over the previous six months . |
| 4 | That fits Waugh 's 1930s fiction well enough , and in an age that had been reading Proust , Joyce and Virginia Woolf it must all have looked startlingly diagrammatic and technically reactionary : a reactionary politics aptly matched by a technical reaction . |
| 5 | By the summer the paper that had been interviewing Paul Johnson continued its move into youth , with a dose of Australian cultural snobbery directed against the ‘ Alfs ’ : ‘ This bizarre cult of grey , short-haired nine-to-fivers ’ , who worked as ‘ account executives , journalists , bank managers , doctors , lawyers , salesmen , dentists , insurance clerks , civil servants … |
| 6 | The hot and humid weather that had been suffocating Paris continued the next two days . |
| 7 | However , as recently as last week , IBM is said to have realised that its shell technology does not comply with the Object Management Group Common Object Request Broker specifications and has been urging Hewlett-Packard to throw its Object Group-compliant Distributed Object Management Facility into the pot . |
| 8 | But Mr Dare is plainly taking the threat of increased competition seriously and has been touring England and Wales to sell his ideas to farmers . |
| 9 | But all she saw was slow , repeated , stumbling , coughing killings at which she retched in a very conventional English animal-loving way , which upset Monsieur Grimaud , who was an aficionado , and had been lecturing Frederica on the provenance and meaning of that word . |
| 10 | I live in Galway and have been supporting Leeds since 1977–1978 when I think we finished 5th in the first , endured the bad 80 's and have mostly enjoyed the 90's though a couple more trophies would n't go astray . |