Example sentences of "[num] [conj] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	At all material times he and his family have been homeless within the meaning of section 58 of the Housing Act 1985 and have been living in temporary accommodation provided by the council , the local housing authority , under section 63 of the Act .
2	I was playing against the West Indies and I scored eight off a Cummins over without hitting a four , and for Natal |I 've build some 80s and 90s that have been matchwinning performances , but this time I 've just got far too excited ’ .
3	LCH was incorporated as a company in 1888 and has been providing market services continuously for more than a century .
4	You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement .
5	I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted .
6	‘ He joined the RAF when he was 17 and had been flying 35 years .
7	She 's twenty-three and has been nursing babies since she was fourteen .
8	The first course began in 1978 and has been recruiting satisfactorily ever since on an annual basis .
9	Mrs Bootyman said Naomi had visited the weekend before her death on January 14 and had been acting differently .
10	Mr Telford , who took redundancy from the pit in 1988 and had been working as a mining contractor at Rossington , near Doncaster , allegedly threatened a man with the gun to gain entry .
11	The company was a victim of the mania for leveraged buyouts of the late 1980s and has been staggering under its burden of debt .
12	My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years .
13	David Salter , eighth last year and fifth in 1991 , will be joined again by Tom McKeith , who was third in the initial Ipswich success in 1990 but has been missing since .
14	Japanese banks were all-powerful in the 1980s but have been reducing their international involvement for the past 18 months in order to focus on their domestic problems .

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