Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latterly , Lima has been receiving more migrants from the poorest and remotest departments . |
| 2 | Mr Ashdown , buoyed up by the latest opinion poll results , has been touring both constituencies . |
| 3 | The Government needs to find extra money from somewhere and has been considering all sorts of options . |
| 4 | Dr Dafydd Griffiths , at the Institute of Archaeology , has been using these techniques to find answers to these questions , which could throw considerable light on past trading routes and cultural contacts . |
| 5 | Cloud has been affecting most parts of the Midlands today but not quite as much as up there in Scotland although that 's gon na make a bit of an impression on us tomorrow . |
| 6 | The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields . |
| 7 | But Decca has been releasing such goodies since 1950 , EMI adopting a wait-and-see policy . |
| 8 | But Professor Cizek of Vienna has been putting these ideas into practice for the last thirty years , with the results you may see exhibited . |
| 9 | VAUXHALL has been giving more details of changes and additions to its range for the sales year . |
| 10 | Russia has been showing former dissidents and émigrés in Moscow 's and St Petersburg 's best museums but almost all the exhibitions have had Western sponsors . |
| 11 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 12 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 13 | One evening , after he 'd been answering more questions from Coombs and Beeding , Quigley came into my room when I was doing my homework . |
| 14 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 15 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 16 | He must have been causing some problems . |
| 17 | But such people forgot that for most Americans television is an inherently incredible medium , and to the extent that in the King case it might be believable , demonstrated merely that Los Angeles police officers were subduing a human who , out of sight of the video camera , might have been threatening these officers with fists , machine pistol or portable Scud missile . |
| 18 | I must have been arranging those flowers , and setting the lighted candles round them , at the very moment my father was dying . |
| 19 | They were the two he had talked to on the previous search , the ones who had been taking such pains with the dovecot . |
| 20 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 21 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 22 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 23 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 24 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 25 | Aplin had been asking many questions about Putt , not only in connection with the robberies but with the rape of Anna too . |
| 26 | Indeed , objects used for inspiration by the artists in the nineteenth-century Paris studios were from parts of West Africa which had been making such images for European consumption for centuries ( Donne 1978 ) . |
| 27 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 28 | I had been repelling all visitors with even the slightest suggestion of a cold but had no power over the internal workings of his cancer . |
| 29 | They came mainly from Stockholm or , at least , southern Sweden and most had been trudging these paths for decades . |
| 30 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |