Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 32 | It solidified the tentative ideas that had been evolving in Whitehall since the drafting of the 1952 Global Strategy paper ; and it was , in many respects , ahead of thinking in Washington , where traditional military orthodoxy still held sway . |
| 33 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 34 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 35 | A vice-president of the Huddersfield League , he had been active in promoting junior cricket in Huddersfield for over 40 years and had been organising their Joe Lumb sides since the competition started . |
| 36 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 37 | NEEDLE Gun and Boloardo have the credentials and have been working well enough this Spring to land a Kempton double today for the Clive Brittain-Michael Roberts combination ( writes our Newmarket correspondent ) . |
| 38 | Resisting the temptation to ask for answers to some of the questions that had been plaguing her , Luce shook her head . |
| 39 | She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed . |
| 40 | Which is more than you ever were with me — until , of course , that last day at the office when you took the lid off and let it all boil over — all the things that had been bugging you . ’ |
| 41 | Thus the expedition is neatly manipulated to include many of the requirements of the national curriculum : ‘ We are very keen to make sure that we do n't lose all the good things that have been going on in schools , ’ she says . |
| 42 | Right , I just thought the Chair would like to thank Councillor for the immense amount of work I know that he 's been putting in over certain things that have been going on lately and I now take councillors ' questions if any of you got any for me . |
| 43 | and outside the porches , to light their number up outside their house , erm people do n't seem to have erm , really changed their ideas very much , we still sell the same type of fitting to people , er the one that goes over the garage doors , on the corner of the , of the house wall , er lanterns er outside the front door with coloured glass in them er things that have been going for |
| 44 | Frankly some of the other things that have been going on weeks . |
| 45 | It requires courage and support from sympathetic colleagues to admit that the things that have been happening in classrooms or schools over the past 20 years have been wrong , pigheaded or simply inefficient . |
| 46 | One , one er stress in my , on what happens so that , that it 's companying it 's been manufacturing leg irons that 's been going out there to the Nile , has n't it , was n't it to . |
| 47 | The dramatic shake-ups during those periods do not suddenly appear out of nowhere but should be seen as resulting from the more gradual and less fundamental changes that had been occurring within the old structure 's context over previous decades . |
| 48 | Chapters 5 and 6 have discussed the changes that have been taking place in rural and urban areas and the effects these have had on social structure , poverty and inequality . |
| 49 | The changes that have been taking place in Latin America and the economic growth that the region has experienced have not brought about any redistribution of income in favour of the low-income groups , the trend has been if anything slightly towards a greater polarisation of wealth . |
| 50 | Europe is now experiencing the political consequences of several changes that have been taking place over the past few years . |
| 51 | The discussion in this chapter has so far not explicitly recognized the changes that have been taking place and will continue to take place in manufacturing methods . |
| 52 | Because the senior members on the flats that have been living here since it was put up , when they came to live on complex , they reckoned it was the place to come and live . |
| 53 | These efforts by the government were given more force through the White Paper Better Schools , which outlined the aims that had been emerging through the previous documents . |
| 54 | ‘ An accumulation of socioeconomic problems that have been developing for 25 years are closing in on blacks like a vice , ’ says veteran African-American author and social theorist Harold Cruse . |
| 55 | You should be able to solve some problems that have been bothering you for some time , especially those connected with your work . |
| 56 | Because of the long-term nature of the business ( many funds run for five years or more ) , there are comparatively few firms that have been going long enough to supply relevant data . |
| 57 | The newly-appointed C E O , Gary who took over at the end of the year when Gill retired has been very involved in these restructuring efforts and has been working very effectively and is on top of the situation , and although three swallows may not make a summer , I can at least tell you that Camco has traded profitably in each of the first three months of nineteen ninety three and now I 'd like to hand you over to Frank , who will talk about the rest of our business . |
| 58 | We pray for those who are unwell ; for those who have sick relatives and have been caring for them ; for those who are housebound , or are reluctant to come out of their homes ; for those who have had to work today ; for students away on courses ; for those who are away from Exeter today . |
| 59 | Ah 'm worn to a frazzle fighting off the toffs that have been swarming round this door since she was nine and three quarters . |
| 60 | She hid more success with the identities of various names that had been puzzling her since their last encounter , and most satisfactorily of all , she placed the baby . |