Example sentences of "have be working " in BNC.

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1 No it 's erm , on , on Monday , on Monday morning they could 've been working
2 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 .
3 Since 1964 it has been working with people of all ages and varying needs .
4 Sony has been working on a new Walkman which allows you to watch films as you go around .
5 Instead , the UK accountancy bodies would rather see the Commission adopt the guidelines of the International Accounting Standards Committee ( IASC ) , which has been working progressively towards the international harmonisation of the rules by which companies report .
6 If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit .
7 If there is no formal agreement between the band members , and if the band has been working in practice as a partnership , I have always viewed the band as operating as if there were a formal partnership agreement .
8 This year the Treasury rumour mill has been working overtime .
9 The British Refugee Council has been working with and providing services to refugees in Britain since 1981 .
10 It has been working miracles .
11 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 .
12 I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years .
13 Sometimes , when he has been working in the garden , he will come in and sit down , then out again and does a bit more .
14 Recently , she has been working closely with the stylist Judy Blame , ‘ as his sort of taste bud ’ , styling Neneh Cherry , Tackhead and new artist Harriet .
15 Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better .
16 Williams has been working out in Miami under the supervision of Muhammad Ali 's old trainer , Angelo Dundee .
17 It appears significant that this unraced filly — who has been working well — is the sole survivor of five John Gosden entries in the fillies ' classic and none of her rivals has a similar entry .
18 Most Saturdays , assuming he has been working the night before , Young is up by 10 am for breakfast with his wife and three children : two teenage boys and Hannah Harley , four , named after his beloved motorbike .
19 More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long .
20 The ESO has the advantage of offering greater scope for really getting to the root of truancy problems by keeping the education welfare service in close contact with the families with which it has been working .
21 The National Council for Women 's ‘ Charter for Women 's Health ’ launched in September calls for the right to knowledge , participation in health-care decisions , opportunity for choice , provision for quality care , accessible health care & the right to a healthy lifestyle ( All issues that the NCT has been working towards for a long time ) .
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 That Kevin is certainly growing into a fine young man , he has been working with his shirt off in this weather and you can see he is going to be just as much an athlete as his father was .
24 David Cox studied the horn in New Zealand and has been working in London since 1984 , with Quintus , the Albion and Almeida Ensembles , the Sixteen , the Hanover Band and the Academy of Ancient Music .
25 Almost from the outset , the measure provoked fierce ethical debate , and while the 12 nations of the European Community continued to grapple with commercial aspects of biotechnology , the 26-nation Council of Europe has been working toward an international convention on human rights questions in bioethics .
26 It is natural for a person who has been working towards a survey for several months to overlook the fact that the respondent has never heard of this wonderful enquiry and may be utterly baffled by it ; but in this lies a great danger of asking poor questions , insufficiently considered from the respondents ' viewpoint .
27 He is part of a multidisciplinary team which has been working together since 1984 .
28 Professor Mott , who has been working on the cancers of childhood for almost 20 years , is the new Professor of Paediatric Oncology .
29 Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post .
30 In March it was learned that there is in existence a French organisation which has been working towards the provision of a water supply to the village of Atea and the construction of a better quality road to the village than had previously existed .
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