Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great-grandmother Shay , 75 , from Walton , has been collecting in memory of fallen heroes since 1942 . |
| 2 | James Schoenwetter , of Arizona State University in Tempe , has been digging in New Mexico . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 4 | Sharon Turnbull has been training in articles with Newcastle City Council for nearly a year . |
| 5 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
| 6 | Harris , who has been living in Minnesota and will eventually have to relocate , is to chair SCO 's executive committee , which includes vice presidents Doug Michels , Sam Spadafora , Dan Steimle and Lars Turndal . |
| 7 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 8 | The Marble Palace , a section of the Russian Museum , has seen an exhibition of works by Vladimir Nekrasov , who since 1976 has been living in America . |
| 9 | Former drug addict Jamie , who served a prison term for driving offences , has been living in London with girlfriend Arabella Tait since the split with his wife . |
| 10 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 11 | The Pushkin Museum is holding an exhibition by Mikhail Kulakov , who has been living in Italy since 1976 . |
| 12 | Lynn Schofield ( Mrs Haight ) has been living in Toronto since 1974 , where her husband is an E.N.T. specialist , and is at present Executive Assistant to the President of Scotiabank . |
| 13 | An old man who has been living in exile returns to Prague in 1998 . |
| 14 | The Dalai Lama , the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people , has been living in exile at Dharamsala , India , since 1959 . |
| 15 | At Benjamin Rhodes , there are new paintings by Simon Edmondson ( 17 June-7 August ) , who has been living in Madrid for the last twelve months and previously showed with Nicola Jacobs . |
| 16 | Sabine , whose mother is German and father is Irish , has been living in Stuttgart for one year . |
| 17 | He has been living in Thailand , has a Thai wife and speaks Thai . |
| 18 | The whole community has been living in fear for far too long , menaced equally by both sets of paramilitaries . |
| 19 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 20 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 21 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 22 | She has been teaching in North Kensington . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Bob Woolmer has been easing in bowler Dougie Brown at Sunday League level . |
| 24 | Leighton , who returned to Scotland via Reading and Arsenal , has been languishing in Dundee 's reserves after a loss of form . |
| 25 | In an experiment carried out at Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1989 , microscopic floating ocean plants ( phytoplankton ) were taken from the nearby bay and brought into the laboratory , where they were subjected to levels of ultra-violet radiation estimated to be equivalent to the amount of ultra-violet being transmitted through the ozone hole which has been developing in Antarctica each spring in recent years . |
| 26 | The telephone has been ringing in Glasgow for over 100 years . |
| 27 | My husband has not paid the community charge which has been operating in Scotland for a year . |
| 28 | The Open School has been operating in Johannesburg for more than 20 years . |
| 29 | A mobile eye screening unit has been operating in Tayside since 1990 . |
| 30 | The Safer City Project , has been operating in Wirral since 1989 . |