Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1978 an organisation called the Liberal Association for the Movement of People ( LAMP ) has been striving to address these problems . |
| 2 | Originally from California , Toni has been striving to achieve musical recognition for the past ten years , playing in LA bands and doing backing vocals for Berlin . |
| 3 | Nelson has been struggling to implement this grand vision ever since but , in the course of his work , he established the hypertext model as a means of getting around a huge database . |
| 4 | Unlike other UK retailers in the Canadian market — Boots came out last year and Marks & Spencer has been struggling to break even — WH Smith has shown profits growth . |
| 5 | Moreover , though the majors may all be global in reach , only some , like BOC , has been investing to create global interdependence for some of the key functions of the business . |
| 6 | The Giuliani campaign — advised by Roger Ailes , the media guru who turned the Bush campaign around — has been trying to persuade Jewish voters that Mr Dinkins is a clone of Jesse Jackson and no friend of Israel . |
| 7 | The minister of agriculture and resettlement , Kumbirai Kangai , has been trying to reassure white farmers . |
| 8 | The Wissenschaftsrat has been trying to sort this one out , but the political factors seem to have prevented progress . |
| 9 | And about 500 yards away in Neasham Road , Mr John Atkinson , company director of Profix Fabrication , has been trying to find new markets for his steel products . |
| 10 | This is negotiated on an individual basis , but Mike Lester has been trying to relate all new contracts to turnover between a range of £5,250 ( turnover £80,000 ) to £7,500 ( turnover £200,000 plus ) . |
| 11 | In Britain , the government has been trying to encourage commercial recyclers such as waste-paper merchants to join forces with the packaging industry to give more packaging a second life . |
| 12 | On April 1 this year the college became independent of local education authority control , and since then the college 's management has been trying to introduce new employment contracts , as recommended by the College Employers ' Forum . |
| 13 | For 10 years the centre has been trying to breed African Fish Eagles . |
| 14 | A Tory friend of mine who has been trying to write nice things about the Conservative campaign has been tearing his hair out in desperation , not just because they are doing so badly — but because they deserve to . |
| 15 | China is North Korea 's closest ally and has been trying to defuse recent tensions . |
| 16 | The multinational group has been getting to know each other in the Darlington convent ever since . |
| 17 | Souces indicated Matshushita Electric Industrial Co , Solbourne 's major stakeholder with investments in the firm totalling more than $50m , has been attempting to exert tighter controls of late . |
| 18 | While there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that Syria has been attempting to develop nuclear devices , it continues to purchase large quantities of heavy weapons and missiles from China and has illegally proscribed certain areas in Syria from IAEA inspection . |
| 19 | For some time , SCOTVEC has been working to harmonise both the quality assurance systems associated with these different kinds of unit , and the unit specifications . |
| 20 | ‘ He has been threatening to do that all season and this was his best performance to date . ’ |
| 21 | She knew that I 'd have to keep Dawn in my bedroom to start with , and she 'd been beginning to have second thoughts about letting me do that . |
| 22 | Though why she 'd been trying to do that , heaven only knew . |
| 23 | Their bodies were discovered when friends who 'd been trying to contact one of the women became worried and called the police . |
| 24 | I talked to the boy who 'd been trying to help this Frome — trying to get him to vomit it up , and so on . |
| 25 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 26 | He 'd been going to say important or fashionable . |
| 27 | I had telephoned various nursing homes in the vicinity whose staff would , I thought , be more conversant with these vagaries of conduct , but they were all full up and I 'd been starting to feel desperate . |
| 28 | Ian Botham ca n't have been expecting to have such a free winter , but he 's certainly filling it innovatively with a national tour of his show , An Evening With Ian Botham . |
| 29 | But the way Brian Harley is playing at the moment he must have been hoping to double that at least . ’ |
| 30 | She certainly did n't want his sympathy ; in all probability she could n't even have coped with it — but still , it would have been reassuring to detect some trace of humanity in the man . |