Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see you 've been having more fun and games ! ’ |
| 2 | A project designed to keep bored youngsters from resorting to car crime by giving them motorbikes to play with has been receiving some expert advice . |
| 3 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 4 | The 28-year-old actor has been taking some time off to get his life back in order after filming three movies due out this year . |
| 5 | The Edinburgh Green Belt Trust has been discussing this matter with its funding partners and it will be important for David Oldham to discuss the various views with the Urban Forestry Advisory Group . |
| 6 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 7 | Mary Anne who has been managing this side of things for us is leaving Birmingham and we are looking for a new manager ( see job description on page 6 ) . |
| 8 | I believe generally good teams are built around a strong defence and this has been lacking all season . |
| 9 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 10 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 11 | The problem for researchers in this country has been getting enough Yew to carry out their work . |
| 12 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 13 | jack ’ , we discover , ‘ has been reading this epistle with a commentary but could get no help from it . ’ |
| 14 | The committee also decided in future to pay the CAB quarterly grants in advance , rather than in arrears which has been causing some cash flow problems . |
| 15 | A consultative panel on badgers has been meeting this week ; it 'll make recomendations to the Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , which may include the introduction of widespread TB testing . |
| 16 | John has been dreading this moment . |
| 17 | One or another young kid has been watching this place since I left . |
| 18 | But no news is good news , and Mr Clarke has been drawing some comfort from the fact that he has n't heard from his own local family doctor . |
| 19 | During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) . |
| 20 | The fine drizzle that has been falling all afternoon has not been enough to stop the match between Scotland and Ireland , but enough to keep the crowds away . |
| 21 | its been , that has been blistering some time that , think its |
| 22 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 23 | The Hydrogeology Group has been doing such work on behalf of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) : repeat drilling at five sites in the Chalk of East Anglia reveals decreased nitrate concentrations in the upper part of the unsaturated zone . |
| 24 | Yeah but but of course this chap has been doing this research in erm Bangladesh was n't it , I think ? |
| 25 | The Secretary of State has been awaiting this advice for sometime . |
| 26 | For this up-dated version of the Romeo and Juliet story , producer Michael Poynor has assembled a large , youthful cast which has been rehearsing all summer . |
| 27 | One project that Warnke has had in mind since he came to Hamburg in 1982 , has been finding more space for the art history department , and to this end he has had his eye on the former Warburg house with its famous oval reading room , conceived by Aby Warburg and opened to readers in 1926 , one year after his death . |
| 28 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 29 | Roll-A-Joint has been disappointing this season and if he runs will be meeting Cool Ground on a stone worse terms , while Little Polveir is a stone better off with Cool Ground , who , at 10-1 , is the other each-way bet . |
| 30 | And , you know , he 's been very wheezy and pro and , and , and er , and has a , er , ha has been suffering some sort fluey cold . |