Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , however , his contribution to the cinema has been disappointing compared with his work for the legitimate theatre and the opera house . |
| 2 | The Wissenschaftsrat has been trying to sort this one out , but the political factors seem to have prevented progress . |
| 3 | Reports that have reached us suggest that the Inland Revenue has been attempting to shake off its former austere image by offering some visitors refreshment . |
| 4 | Colombian and other diplomats at the Organisation of American States were furious at the legalistic wranglings the US delegation has been using to buy time at the OAS meetings in Washington . |
| 5 | Whoever was driving the car had been trying to kill her , it was as simple as that . |
| 6 | With a shortage of money , Mr Eyton-Jones 's department had been trying to ensure there was no serious disruption to buildings , closure or breaches of the law . |
| 7 | After our visit to Baghdad and Amman , the Women 's International Peace Delegation had been planning to visit the US to meet with George Bush , but this was postponed when the attack on Iraq began on January 16 . |
| 8 | Only this weekend , industrial users in the electricity industry have been looking to break up power generators and introduce competition , and there is a suggestion that the Director General of Electricity Supply might yet refer the electricity industry to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on the issue of industrial prices , as happened with British Gas . |
| 9 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |
| 10 | A committee of three ministers — Roger Freeman ( transport ) , Francis Maude ( Treasury ) and John Redwood ( trade and industry ) — has been working on the railway sell-off ; and the group drafting the Tory election manifesto has been trying to distil the trio 's ideas into an appetising few paragraphs . |
| 11 | On April 1 this year the college became independent of local education authority control , and since then the college 's management has been trying to introduce new employment contracts , as recommended by the College Employers ' Forum . |
| 12 | The council has been trying to sell the half-timbered historic mansion in Royden Park for more than two years and has put a £1m price tag on it . |
| 13 | The council has been trying to sell the halftimbered historic mansion in Royden Park for more than two years and has put a £1m price tag on it . |
| 14 | He says the county council has been trying to find out for 6 years about the planning of the east-west route because we were very worried about the effect it would have on Oxford and the countryside around Oxford . |
| 15 | Since she was rejected last year , the council has been trying to find an alternative service for the island . |
| 16 | For years the International Stock Exchange has been attempting to reduce the flow of paper on share transactions through the evolution of a computerised system known as Taurus . |
| 17 | The hunting lobby has been trying to improve its public image with a campaign to put the case for its controversial sport . |
| 18 | As the storm raged about them , the bier unaccountably broke and the corpse tumbled into a meadow the bailiff had been trying to extort . |
| 19 | The stool on which the boy had been sitting tipped over and hit the floor with a loud crash . |
| 20 | The underlying message of the weapons , that the Woodvilles , by planning a resort to force , threatened the political stability which the council had been struggling to maintain , may , however , have been more persuasive . |
| 21 | The underlying message of the weapons , that the Woodvilles , by planning a resort to force , threatened the political stability which the council had been struggling to maintain , may , however , have been more persuasive . |
| 22 | As McLeish had observed to a colleague at the ti me , he 'd have understood the whole performance if the solicitor in question had been going to marry either of them , but there had been no question of that , it was just obfuscation for its own sake . |
| 23 | Harp Lager have been trying to attract English horses and although this is never easy I 'm sure that if the right money was available , then the barriers would come down . |
| 24 | One other area , rather controversially that the Council 's been considering extracting gravel from , is Finmere . |
| 25 | ‘ For 20 years ’ , said Mr Beckman , ‘ the European Community has been trying to agree on air fares . |
| 26 | Dounreay has been attempting to fill a gap in the international market which has appeared since the United States energy department decided in 1989 to ban the import of research reactor fuel pending an environmental assessment . |
| 27 | The multinational group has been getting to know each other in the Darlington convent ever since . |
| 28 | This group has been doubling resolving power of the SAM ( its ability to see detail ) every year since its invention , and the device can now surpass the resolution of the best optical instruments . |
| 29 | Meanwhile fears were growing that the sect has been attempting to recruit followers in Ireland . |
| 30 | Roger Bootle , chief economist at stockbrokers Greenwell Montagu , said yesterday : ‘ I think the recovery has been waiting to happen for the last couple of months . |