Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . " |
| 2 | The Old Berkshire Hunt , based at nearby Faringdon , has been hunting in the area since 1830 . |
| 3 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 4 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
| 5 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 6 | This was chiefly aimed at Pumas captain Pablo Garreton who , since moving from his native Tucuman to Buenos Aires for work purposes , has been wallowing in the Belgrano club 's lower teams . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Britain has been steering in the direction of low-tax economy for the last ten years . |
| 8 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 9 | Already the world 's largest independent manufacturer , Bunzl has been expanding in the US and plans joint venture in India . |
| 10 | To what ex what I 'm saying is , To what extent has been living in the flats , has contributed the life on the flats that they 're in . |
| 11 | The young man has been living in the USA . |
| 12 | Unemployment has been rising in the United States , Italy , France and Canada , and in every country of the European Community . |
| 13 | Astrophil has been trying in the sonnet to proceed by imitation and been singularly unsuccessful in doing so . |
| 14 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 15 | Although Mr Lamont has been staying in the Imperial Hotel with the rest of the Cabinet , he has held most of the talks in more down-market hotels along the Promenade . |
| 16 | ‘ Five Bellies ’ , who earns nearly £40,000 a year as Gazza 's companion and minder , has been staying in the Italian capital since the soccer star joined Lazio . |
| 17 | Caroline Little , soon to move with her husband to the West Country , has been teaching in the Sussex and Hampshire area for 20 years . |
| 18 | The deal , said by sources to be ‘ very valuable to Pyramid , ’ will also allow ICL to OEM the company 's high-end MIServer ES machines — this follows on from an informal Pyramid-ICL sales teaming that has been operating in the UK for the last few months . |
| 19 | The region 's largest gardening show has been drawing in the crowds on the edge of the Malvern Hills . |
| 20 | AMERICA 'S Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) has set a sturdy hare running , one that has been lurking in the undergrowth for 15 years . |
| 21 | Ever since Munro visited the area on his mammoth feat of cataloguing , and inexplicably rejected the locals ' claim of its 3000 foot stature for his original table of 283 Munros ( the figure has now been cut to 277 ) , Foinavon has been lurking in the wings . |
| 22 | Ever since then , under various ideas of devolution and home rule , especially ‘ home rule all round ’ , the federal idea has been lurking in the background . |
| 23 | Or has been going in the past , and violence obviously can result in serious injury or at least death . |
| 24 | Welcome back : One of Britain 's best loved racehorses , Desert Orchid has been pulling in the crowds at the Three Counties Show . |
| 25 | Sometimes , when he has been working in the garden , he will come in and sit down , then out again and does a bit more . |
| 26 | Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time . |
| 27 | But when I put the phone down I find he has been standing in the doorway . |
| 28 | Yet almost exactly the same phenomenon of rising wealth matched by falling savings has been occurring in the US , as the second graph shows . |
| 29 | The papers say there has been shooting in the centre of Tripoli far to the north . |
| 30 | We can plausibly infer that crime has been increasing in the last two to three decades , presenting a problem for explanation and policy . |