Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally from California , Toni has been striving to achieve musical recognition for the past ten years , playing in LA bands and doing backing vocals for Berlin . |
| 2 | Unlike other UK retailers in the Canadian market — Boots came out last year and Marks & Spencer has been struggling to break even — WH Smith has shown profits growth . |
| 3 | Moreover , though the majors may all be global in reach , only some , like BOC , has been investing to create global interdependence for some of the key functions of the business . |
| 4 | The Giuliani campaign — advised by Roger Ailes , the media guru who turned the Bush campaign around — has been trying to persuade Jewish voters that Mr Dinkins is a clone of Jesse Jackson and no friend of Israel . |
| 5 | The minister of agriculture and resettlement , Kumbirai Kangai , has been trying to reassure white farmers . |
| 6 | And about 500 yards away in Neasham Road , Mr John Atkinson , company director of Profix Fabrication , has been trying to find new markets for his steel products . |
| 7 | In Britain , the government has been trying to encourage commercial recyclers such as waste-paper merchants to join forces with the packaging industry to give more packaging a second life . |
| 8 | On April 1 this year the college became independent of local education authority control , and since then the college 's management has been trying to introduce new employment contracts , as recommended by the College Employers ' Forum . |
| 9 | For 10 years the centre has been trying to breed African Fish Eagles . |
| 10 | A Tory friend of mine who has been trying to write nice things about the Conservative campaign has been tearing his hair out in desperation , not just because they are doing so badly — but because they deserve to . |
| 11 | China is North Korea 's closest ally and has been trying to defuse recent tensions . |
| 12 | While there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that Syria has been attempting to develop nuclear devices , it continues to purchase large quantities of heavy weapons and missiles from China and has illegally proscribed certain areas in Syria from IAEA inspection . |
| 13 | He 'd been going to say important or fashionable . |
| 14 | I had telephoned various nursing homes in the vicinity whose staff would , I thought , be more conversant with these vagaries of conduct , but they were all full up and I 'd been starting to feel desperate . |
| 15 | Pearce , set to be named as England 's captain for the World Cup qualifying campaign , had been hoping to renegotiate new terms despite signing a five-year contract worth £1m two years ago . |
| 16 | He had been trying to put inorganic chemistry into an intelligible form for his students at the University of St Petersburg , when ( in common with various contemporaries in various countries ) he realized that if the elements are set out in order of increasing atomic weight , they display periodicity : similar elements recur at regular intervals . |
| 17 | Although a number of influential parties had been trying to have New Year 's flay changed from the old style 13th of the month to 1st , the majority of the natives were loath to change and both days were partially observed . |
| 18 | The Coal Board had been trying to introduce new mechanical processes into coal mining in order to increase productivity , but the innovation provoked severe industrial unrest . |
| 19 | Then the toilet flushed and we wrenched violently apart , as though each of us had been struggling to get free all along . |
| 20 | The Frasque had been scheming to sponsor civil war in the system , setting world against world . |
| 21 | The Location of Offices Bureau , which for many years had been attempting to move commercial development out of London , was given the task of promoting office employment within the cities , including London itself . |
| 22 | DPP ( 1954 ) D , who was sexually impotent , was taunted about his impotence and kicked in the groin by a prostitute with whom he had been attempting to have sexual intercourse , whereupon he lost self-control and killed her . |
| 23 | ‘ And then Crom Croich eats the hearts , ’ said the soldier , and Cathbad , who had been very busy all afternoon supervising the skinning and jointing of an ox and had been planning to serve braised ox heart for tomorrow 's midday meal , turned quite green and tried to remember if they had any salted pig left . |
| 24 | A brutal military campaign launched by Iraqi government troops in late March rapidly crushed the Kurdish guerrilla insurgency , which had been threatening to overrun wide areas of northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Iraqi defeat in the Gulf war . |
| 25 | The pleasure she had been feeling turned sour , and she pushed him away . |
| 26 | They 've been trying to find alternative berths for incoming cargoes and negotiating the release of ships waiting to sail on the night time . |
| 27 | I 've been trying to find loose stones again . |
| 28 | Do you realize we 've been trying to get ready for twenty minutes ? |
| 29 | Harp Lager have been trying to attract English horses and although this is never easy I 'm sure that if the right money was available , then the barriers would come down . |
| 30 | We have been trying to breed Red Pandas for some time but they are very difficult . |