Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] has be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicola , dressed in jeans and a white polo-neck sweater , left Blackpool 's Victoria Hospital where she has been undergoing tests this morning to be driven by an ambulance car with her parents to North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 2 | One thing I think I know now , though — where she has been hiding all this time . |
| 3 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 4 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 5 | Over the weekend he has been at the Spring Thing folk festival at Darlington Arts Centre , where he has been selling home-made ear-rings and Asian crafts . |
| 6 | Labour 's bash will be at 4 Millbank , where it has been holding its morning press conferences . |
| 7 | FOR the first time in more than 20 years the Drummond Locomotive Society 's Class M7 locomotive No. 30053 hauled a passenger train at the East Anglian Railway Museum where it has been undergoing major restoration work . |
| 8 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 9 | Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches . |
| 10 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 11 | Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains . |
| 12 | ‘ Its concentration on domestic mortgages makes it more like a building society than a bank and , although it has been making losses with the rest of them , it has just managed to climb back into profitability . ’ |
| 13 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 14 | Although it has been declining slightly among men under 65 during the past 20 years , it is still rising in women . |
| 15 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 16 | We believe that German unification will prove more troublesome than anyone has been expecting , keeping interest and exchange rates higher than expected . |
| 17 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 18 | The experts say that for a woman over about 40 , SERPS is definitely going to be better , and if she has been paying into a contracted out PP scheme up to that time , she should change over then . |
| 19 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 20 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 21 | Thus , if we know of an author who wrote a very good book or article a few years ago on our chosen topic we can look up his name to see if anyone has been citing that article recently . |
| 22 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 23 | Now it 's all because somebody has been messing about with . |
| 24 | If there is an incident when friends walk away because she has been ordering them around , explain to her why that happened . |
| 25 | But I 'm happy with my decision to rest him because he has been competing since January , and Ever is an improving horse . ’ |
| 26 | Spurs chief executive Terry Venables said : ‘ I 'm thrilled for Gordon because he has been suffering with this ‘ cheat ’ slur hanging over him . |
| 27 | The House will be grateful to the right hon. Gentleman , because he has been making a clear statement and drawing a clear distinction between the two sides of the House . |
| 28 | Shortly after the abolition of the CPRS , Professor George Jones noted : ‘ While she has been strengthening her own personal staff resources , she has weakened those at the disposal of her Cabinet colleagues for the performances of their collective deliberations by abolishing the CPRS . |
| 29 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |
| 30 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |