Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] has be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | All he has been trying to do is to trying to ensure that there 's been even-handed play here on all the stadium sites and it 's disgraceful that his name has been dragged into this ! |
2 | That is the update on the outside of the Lincoln Turbine Service building , so what has been happening on the inside ? |
3 | Lately she has been working as a $10-an-hour dresser at local fashion shows and answering phones at an aerobics studio . |
4 | But lately he has been losing rather too many important matches . |
5 | Lately he has been working on paintings of trees , large-sized drawings of nudes , painted low-reliefs in wood and a series of portraits of poets in which snippets from their work are inscribed ( Beats Alan Ginsberg and Gregory Corso appear in the show ) . |
6 | It could also stop the central government from imposing half-baked measures in the guise of reform , which is largely what has been happening until now . |
7 | Since her two daughters have left home she has been researching 18th Century records preparatory to writing biographies of some political reformers . |
8 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
9 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
10 | For 17 years now he has been hovering — camera at the ready — on the edge of parties , outside nightclubs or in restaurant doorways . |
11 | Now he has been talking of being ‘ more in control ’ . |
12 | Previous results showed that the subpolar North Atlantic had warmed between the early 1950s and early 1970s , whereas since then there has been cooling . |
13 | Maybe it has been charging too little for the uncertainties involved , but that is another matter . |
14 | I think that since then it has been damaging . ’ |
15 | We met at lunch , once , and since then he has been bombarding my house with letters and phone calls . |
16 | Mr Duff said : ‘ His life all went wrong in 1986 but since then he has been putting it back together again . ’ |
17 | Now , he finds people are beginning to be more open about their sexuality , and consequently he has been promoting the activities of the centre for sexual problems in Istanbul . |
18 | This is precisely what has been happening in recent years , to such an extent that we can without exaggeration speak of a ‘ committals explosion ’ in addition to the remand explosion which we have just outlined . |
19 | It began with a love of children , but recently she has been making important speeches about the role of the family as a whole , and the dangers of drug abuse . |
20 | ‘ Recently he has been working on American films and he was very keen to get back home and work with some of his old mates . |