Example sentences of "[conj] it have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 2 | He was standing back to admire the conflagration when the full weight of its rightful resident landed on him from a bough above , where it had been watching . |
| 3 | She was wasting her time ; without knowing exactly where it had been lying , there was no means of identifying the spot from where it had fallen . |
| 4 | Labour 's bash will be at 4 Millbank , where it has been holding its morning press conferences . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 10 | Although it has been declining slightly among men under 65 during the past 20 years , it is still rising in women . |
| 11 | The MOD ordered Challenger when the tank that it had been developing , known as MBT80 turned out to be too complicated and expensive . |
| 12 | Earlier this month Bear Stearns , the New York investment bank , distributed 10 million shares that it had been holding as part of a deferred payment plan . |
| 13 | The Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board went into liquidation last month amid allegations that it had been living beyond its means . |
| 14 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
| 15 | The Commission subsequently issued an interim measures decision which , amongst other things , required Akzo 's UK subsidiary to return to the profit levels that it had been applying before the alleged threats were made and implemented . |
| 16 | It gave her great qualms that it had been lying in the hall since the morning 's post , as if it had an atmosphere capable of permeating the whole house . |
| 17 | Narasimhan Ram , associate editor of The Hindu , a Madras-based daily , said at a press conference that it had been preparing to publish documents about the £550m Bofors contract to supply the Indian army with 155mm howitzers . |
| 18 | Most damningly of all , Sir Anthony concludes that in 1985 the Department already knew that Barlow Clowes did not maintain proper records , that it had been trading without a licence and that investment watchdogs were worried about the group 's activities . |
| 19 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 20 | He will be glad to know that we have set up a noise review working party and that one of the issues that it has been considering is traffic noise and how to deal with it more effectively . |
| 21 | However , this sector of the Environment Services Division has expanded greatly in the ten years that it has been operating |
| 22 | Assume that it has been trying to help you , in some misguided way . |
| 23 | It says that it has been urging motor manufacturers to make cars more secure since 1961 . |
| 24 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that if the Labour party implemented even a fraction of the spending priorities that it has been spreading around over the past year or two , to the tune of £30 billion or £40 billion extra expenditure , it would not only have to face the problem of raising taxation , but would have to resort to massive borrowing , which would increase interest rates and greatly damage the economy ? |
| 25 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 26 | Novell Inc has finally produced the big restructuring that it has been planning and ( sort of ) denying for so long and which led to the departure of Tony Scrivens as UK managing director . |
| 27 | The new ruling , which Advanced Micro plans to appeal , means that it will have to write new microcode for the Am486 chip that it has been sampling to a few potential customers and had hoped to ship by the end of the year . |
| 28 | Siemens AG has been having such a tough time in the former Soviet Union with its nuclear safety and telecommunications projects that it has been cutting back and recalling expatriates early ( CI No 2,043 ) , but Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG does have some work . |
| 29 | From a technical point of view this is mainly nip and tuck stuff , but Microsoft is betting that the innovative use of existing technology will be a winner and is finally cashing in on all the application programming interfaces , dynamic data exchange , object linking and embedding facilities that it has been burying in its applications and operating systems for the last couple of years . |
| 30 | Rainow , Cheshire-based Eden says that it has been working with unnamed telecommunications operators and user groups on the design of the phone , and envisages both business customers and consumers being interested in the device . |