Example sentences of "[conj] you have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get a true feeling for the plan it should also be applied to the Principal because although you have been paying a fixed amount in each month the value of this has also decreased due to inflation . |
| 2 | But if you set a personal best indoors , on the heavy training that you have been undertaking , it is a tremendous incentive . |
| 3 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 4 | That way the surface area is restored and there is little sign that you have been digging underneath . |
| 5 | I trust that you have been reading my peerless prose this lovely morning . ’ |
| 6 | Imagine that you have been studying for 20 years for a qualification that will change your life , or waiting the same length of time to hear about a job you have applied for , the only job you have ever really wanted . |
| 7 | When you think of a subject that you have been studying , do you know which part of it is of greatest importance ? |
| 8 | And if I hear so much as a whisper that you have been broadcasting our private affairs around the country … ’ |
| 9 | Once you feel more able to control symptoms we can set about confronting situations that you have been avoiding , such as meeting people and going to work . |
| 10 | What you should recognize is that it is a warning sign that you have been doing too much , and that you need to get away from the patient , at least for short periods in the day , if not for some days or weeks . |
| 11 | Erm , and so , but we do need to do that , and I believe the work that you have been doing erm , I do n't know when that 's to be published , er , but will I 'm sure assist us in developing the criteria which will help voluntary organisations to decide what they properly should be doing . |
| 12 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 13 | After a couple of days of complete rest you can do all the things that you have been meaning to do for ages — jobs around the house ; shopping for clothes ; meeting friends for lunch ; having day trips out to places of interest ; doing the garden ; sunbathing ; fruit-picking at the local pick-your-own farm and filling up your freezer ; writing a book you have always meant to write or painting ; seeing all the shows that you are too tired to see during a working week ; and so on . |
| 14 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 15 | Call the Department of Environment 's air quality information line and a lady with a cheerful voice will most probably inform you that you have been breathing ‘ good ’ or ‘ very good ’ air for the previous 24 hours . |
| 16 | ‘ Your uncle Orrin tells us that you have been missing for months , not travelling with the Parslows as we thought , and when you surface again you have the gall to question us . ’ |
| 17 | How many of you have been hearing whispers in your mind that you have been ignoring ? … . |
| 18 | ‘ So you have been thinking about them . |
| 19 | ‘ So you have been thinking , Friar ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So you have been waiting . |
| 21 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 22 | At this point , your chances of success are actually considerably reduced , since a power on recovery requires a different technique to a power off landing- and you have been practising the wrong thing ! |
| 23 | Complete removal of weeds , including all the roots , is important , preferably by hand or while digging ; incidentally , do remember that some of them may be the very plants you are intending to grow , though if the area contains horsetail it is better not to try growing perennial plants in it until you have been clearing out this weed for some years . |
| 24 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 25 | If you have been saving under the Homeloan scheme for two years or more you may qualify for an extra £600 loan and a cash bonus of £110 , provided you buy a house or flat below a certain price limit for each region . |
| 26 | You will have lost your latest changes to the document , but if you have been saving your documents regularly , as you should , this should not be too much of a problem . |
| 27 | If you have been using a code driven system then it 's likely that you can drive alternative systems directly ; GO Graphics ' Deskset talks to Compugraphic systems , for example . |
| 28 | If you have been fiddling with the boot files a lot anyway , you should have no bother with this , and will be able to use the in-built editor to make any changes you want . |
| 29 | Remember , if you have been building circuits from previous parts of the series , check your stock of components before ordering new ones . |
| 30 | If you have been holding off before making changes , now is the time for making some new beginnings . |