Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Since these results are obtained in animals that have been living in a normal environment , they mean that the clock originates , at least in these animals , from an abnormal ‘ internal ’ structure , the chromosome .
2 The tastiest lamb comes from animals that have been grazing , but are not yet fully grown — about 10 months old .
3 ‘ Look , I 'm responsible for those rumors that have been circulating about you and damaging your reputation .
4 Anti-terrorist squad officers have been on maximum alert for several months and have been expecting ‘ a spectacular ’ IRA bomb in the run-up to Christmas .
5 Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right
6 ‘ We have been very very supportive of the exchange and all the operations that have been going on .
7 Begin the list with the projects that have been waiting to be finished for the longest period of time .
8 The decision was made last week at a planning process review the COSE people and the Open Software Foundation held April 7 at X/Open offices in Menlo Park , California , one of many meetings that have been taking place lately .
9 The decision was made last week at a planning process review the COSE people and the Open Software Foundation held on April 7 at the X/Open offices in Menlo Park , California , one of many meetings that have been taking place lately .
10 Meantime , do n't throw away the sloes that have been steeping in the gin ; use them instead to make a wicked fruit pie with the bitter taste of sloe sweetened by the addition of sugar .
11 While everyone was careful to avoid the word ‘ black ’ in their statements , the fact remains that the ‘ minority ’ workshop , which was overseen by one Ramona Edelin of the National Urban Coalition , an urban action organisation founded in 1967 , was really a reflection on the efforts of some of the black inspired programmes that have been running for years in America .
12 Because of the selective nature of migration , areas that have been growing rapidly tend to have very different population profiles from those that have been declining , the latter generally having below-average representations of young families , owner-occupiers and high-income professionals .
13 Golden shares will prevent the French water companies that have been investing in the British water industry from bidding outright for five years .
14 However , according to Zakrewski the government has ruled that the duty-free import quotas will only be divided up among home-grown or foreign companies that have been assembling in Poland for two years , while other firms will face levies at the old rates .
15 erm Has that been a concern of unions , or has it been other sorts of organisations that have been pressing for them over the years ?
16 Slow pea harvesting may boost prices by using up stocks that have been depressing the market
17 Among the host of popular classes that have been running for several years — upholstery , art , body conditioning , keep fit , body talk , jazz dance , electronic organ , and two levels of French — there are also the more recent additions of appreciation of poetry , yoga for beginners and dressmaking .
18 All these workshops that have been going on that we have n't been to .
19 Potted primulas and other plants that have been standing in frames can be brought into the greenhouse now .
20 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 .
21 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 ) .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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
25 Frankly some of the other things that have been going on weeks .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Europe is now experiencing the political consequences of several changes that have been taking place over the past few years .
30 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 .
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