Example sentences of "have [adv] be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM had originally agreed to help finance the project through to the end of 1992 , and has since been helping Supercomputing Systems to meet its payroll on a week-by-week basis . |
| 2 | Against this dearth of local information , Cuba has nevertheless been receiving religious broadcasts and publications from outside the country , but these are frequently alien to the Cuban people 's own expression of the Christian faith . |
| 3 | The company has also been rethinking other aspects of library management . |
| 4 | Who would be dropped , if anybody , for Michael O'Neill ( Hibernian ) has also been producing consistent form since his transfer from Dundee Utd . |
| 5 | Sir Richard has also been making final adjustments to his latest film Chaplin , the biography of Charlie Chaplin , the subject of a Royal Film Premiere next month . |
| 6 | The board has also been having ongoing talks with potential investors , but it was understood last night that the present worrying situation remained unchanged . |
| 7 | After he graduated from London 's Faculty of Astrological Studies , his star talents were spotted by veteran astrologer Patrick Walker and he has now been casting daily horoscopes for The Sun for over ten years . |
| 8 | Rumour has it that The High had all been living separate musical lives — Andy in particular having just split with the Stone Roses — when they met in Manchester 's Hacienda club , and decided to put a new band together … |
| 9 | By 1920 the government had already been giving public support to 7,667,769 children in need . |
| 10 | The night she got pregnant she had already been feeling depressed , and afterwards she immediately regretted what had happened . |
| 11 | He 's gone part of the way along the r road by doing what you 've just been describing non-executive directors but erm it could be a weakness if he 's seen as a er erm a business man and cavalier as opposed to somebody who fits in with the style that the city 's always looking for . |
| 12 | I know I should n't talk like this , but Brendan was the best fuck I ever had , and I guess I 've just been feeling guilty towards my family for enjoying it . ’ |
| 13 | Then Pike , or Pike 's body anyway , fiopped all over Quigley as if the two of them had just been exchanging bodily fiuids . |
| 14 | I had always been singing energetic music from the time I was just a little girl , and when I started getting songs like Sweet Nothings , I loved those songs , and I wanted to sing them . |
| 15 | Furthermore , the consolidation of Bernician domination of the northern Britons had probably been proceeding unhindered . |
| 16 | While putting these changes in place , the BBC had also been developing local radio . |
| 17 | Concern was heightened by the knowledge that , since the late 1970s , the North Koreans had also been developing ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads . |
| 18 | In its less dogmatic and more amateur way the ILP had also been giving serious consideration to the United Front . |
| 19 | Serb forces had also been pounding Croatian positions between Zadar and Biograd. — Reuter |
| 20 | He had clearly been sobbing fit to burst , but he was now past that . |
| 21 | One of his crosses was Perdita Macleod , who had now been working full time for Ricky for nine months and felt she knew everything . |
| 22 | IBM had indeed been making OSI product announcements since summer 1985 , as had its rivals , notably DEC . |
| 23 | It was a ‘ sad indictment ’ that some reporting accountants had evidently been issuing unqualified reports in circumstances subsequently giving rise to claims on the fund . |
| 24 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 25 | Thus , for all the vast growth in the range of government activities — which has meant that civil servants have effectively been making major business decisions on the allocation of resources — the Treasury made little attempt to devise fundamentally new and appropriate methods of training and re-training [ Fulton Report , 1968 ; Chapman and Greenaway , 1980 ] . |
| 26 | So far we have just been using linear demand curves , with a linear demand curve the slope is constant , however , elasticity varies everywhere along its length . |
| 27 | We have also been receiving wonderful gifts ongoing I hope from individual contributors . |
| 28 | Age patterns have also been undergoing major changes in recent years . |
| 29 | Matthews and his coworkers have also been trying high concentrations of VOCs in water — up to 100 ppm of each chlorinated solvent . |
| 30 | Other big firms , some of which are also informally relaxing their rules on unpaid leave for juniors , have also been making large-scale job cuts . |