Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prosecutors may feel that in serious cases of what has hitherto been threatening conduct under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5 might be proceeded against as affrays . |
| 2 | Katharine Over has only been studying Japanese for a year , but she 's already considered good enough to act as an ambassador for Britain . |
| 3 | The Open Software Foundation has apparently been submitting Motif to X/Open Co Ltd on a regular six monthly basis over the last three or four years , sources are saying . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the Harrods personnel department has apparently been giving Geoffrey Bailey a small problem . |
| 5 | The Science Citation Index also indicates that the outside world has not been developing ideas form German scientists : 2 per cent of citations in 1975 were for German papers compared with 4 per cent for the UK and 3 per cent from Japan . |
| 6 | Lucker has not been taking corners well . |
| 7 | John Wain , who is said to reread Johnson 's Rasselas every year , has the heroine of his first novel , Hurry on Down ( 1953 ) , call herself Moll Flanders because she has just been reading Defoe 's novel and scents a resemblance to herself ; and Iris Murdoch , who seldom reads twentieth-century fiction at all , is profoundly immersed in the great realistic fiction of earlier ages , whether English , French or Russian . |
| 8 | Now Cronenberg has finally realised his long-cherished project of making a movie out of The Naked Lunch ( London cinemas from 24 April ) — but he has already been filming William Burroughs for years . |
| 9 | A main preoccupation of the laws of war has always been placing limits on the scope and ferocity of war : hence the large number of rules restricting the use of indiscriminate weapons ; and protecting neutrals , civilians and prisoners of war . |
| 10 | The 68-year-old hero of the World War Two has still been fighting battles of his generation . |
| 11 | Greg Harvey is not only the author of over 30 computer books , but has also been training people in the use of business software since 1983 . |
| 12 | The Good Food Guide has also been dropping Stowell Street like a hot skillet , only the Dragon House among its dozen or so restaurants surviving into the 1992 edition . |
| 13 | The heatwave which stole Ivano 's snowfields has also been wreaking rockfall havoc around the massif , with many normally safe routes becoming places to tread warily . |
| 14 | Exploration of the Variscan thrust province in Belgium , southern Germany , and northern France has also been taking place , though on a much smaller scale than in North America , and so far without commercial success . |
| 15 | Work in generic science has also been taking place . |
| 16 | John Richardson , the St Andrews-born father of Ryder Cup player Steve , has also been dispensing family golf wisdom . |
| 17 | The Group has also been seeking allies in Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | MAS has also been assisting purchasers transact acquisitions . |
| 19 | Hyundai has also been helping Empress Software do a Korean version of its RDBMS and 4GL under X11 and Open Look . |
| 20 | The Senate Judiciary Committee has also been studying evidence that the death penalty discriminates against black Americans . |
| 21 | The Scottish Office has also been giving consideration to reforming school inspection teams , so that members of the public will always be involved . |
| 22 | Sanipet has also been winning clean-up contracts for various dog shows , and show committees have been pleased with the results . |
| 23 | Its SASOL plant has now been making oil from syn-gas using the Fischer-Tropsch process since 1955 . |
| 24 | You 're sure she has n't been making wine out of your dandelions ? |
| 25 | The popular TV star , who first shot to fame with the children 's favourite Crackerjack , has even been swapping jokes with his doctors . |
| 26 | Christopher Robson ( countertenor ) has recently been electrifying audiences with his performances of Arsamenes in Xerxes at the English National Opera , and when he opens his mouth on this recording he may as well be plugging us all into the mains . |
| 27 | Dr Ken Towner , a microbiologist at the University Hospital , Nottingham , has recently been using DNA probes to identify and classify the various DHFRs ( Epidemiol . |
| 28 | The Head Receptionist has recently been showing signs of some disquiet , however : he has invested in a home computer and has been rather tentatively advocating the advantages of word processing and computerized accounting . |
| 29 | The statistical study of style is a discipline which is still in its infancy , but has recently been showing signs of vigorous growth . |
| 30 | This also shows that the ejections are not necessarily triggered by solar flares , a view that has recently been gaining support . |