Example sentences of "of [pron] has be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’ |
| 2 | Erm I must confess to doubting whether such a pool of talent exists and I share the views er of the Noble Lord , Lord Motterstone who in a very powerful and commonsense speech made this point an and a number of other ones , but I have to say that what I do think exists is the temptation to create posts for friends of the Government , a process of which has been going for far too long and I mem and I wonder if er members on the other side would defend this position as my Noble Friend Lord Allen said earlier , quite sincerely if , say , another party were in power before when such a time arrives it will then be of little avail for them to run around complaining , for they will have sown the seeds of their own dissatisfaction . |
| 3 | Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all . |
| 4 | Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all . |
| 5 | I know it 's him , this man — what was his name ? — Luke Denner , that 's got you so worked up ; you 've not been the same since those few days in the country and that plan of his has been sitting on your desk untouched for days on end . |
| 6 | Of what has been collecting centuries |
| 7 | a a step back in time over the last five years of what has been delivering and there are many thousands of customers using in that manner . |
| 8 | I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country . |
| 9 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
| 10 | The list of libraries will come as a shock to anyone who is unaware of what has been happening . |
| 11 | If any of your friends are aware of what has been happening , take them with you . |
| 12 | To understand the force of these interpretations of what has been happening we must be clear as to what the contrasting but implicit concept of order is supposed to comprise . |
| 13 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 14 | The International Motor Vehicle program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , which has studied eighty assembly plants around the world , provides hard evidence of what has been happening ( Krafcik , 1988 ; Krafcik and MacDuffie , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | Graphs are often used to show information in a way that gives the reader a quick picture of what has been happening or is likely to happen , in the future . |
| 16 | The elite theory shares with pluralist writings a very well developed descriptive sense of what has been happening . |
| 17 | Third To make the public aware of what has been happening to the badger . |
| 18 | We 're not talking of a conversion of ten to fifteen thousand dwellings with erm new building being reduced considerably , we are talking something in the order of magnitude of what has been happening in the past . |
| 19 | He said to protesters : ‘ I think the Timex situation is an indication of what has been happening in the country over the last 10 to 15 years . ’ |
| 20 | The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago . |
| 21 | This brief outline gives some idea of what has been going on and where we have got to , a brief outline of the key tasks , and the progress made on these . |