Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see you 've been checking up on me . ’ |
| 2 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table — and final agreement was reached barely 48 hours before Wednesday 17 , opening day of the San Francisco event . |
| 3 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table . |
| 4 | The building industry has been cashing in by providing sheltered housing schemes for elderly people , there is a whole holiday industry built around holidays for the elderly and more and more private nursing homes are springing up . |
| 5 | The company , which made its name with the Microdata Reality version of Pick , running on machines built in-house , has been moving over to software and services , which now account for 58% of total business , and on the hardware side , the company now buys in its machines . |
| 6 | The exhibition indicates that Tillyer 's work has been moving away from Hitchens and closer to American landscape-abstractionists , notably Helen Frankenthaler . |
| 7 | Throughout the world , local government has been moving increasingly towards two-tier systems in recent years — often under pressure from the needs of metropolitan areas for overall planning agencies ( Rowat 1980:1 — 3 ) . |
| 8 | The disease front has been moving ahead by fits and starts for most of the last two decades and three years ago crossed the Italian frontier into the provinces of South Tyrol and Venice . |
| 9 | She has been moving well in home gallops and defends her record in the Gainsborough Stud Fred Darling Stakes . |
| 10 | Yes sir , er ever since P P G three was revised at the beginning of last year , I believe that the department has been moving steadily in the direction that indicated but certainly my brief here is quite specific . |
| 11 | A long , narrow band of cloud has been moving down over the country and will continue to do so throughout the night before it moves away eastwards tomorrow , being replaced by clear skies to the west . |
| 12 | Apparently not , for he has been thinking hard for months and his decision is now solid . |
| 13 | Woosnam , currently 25th in the Ryder Cup points table , has been struggling both with his long game and his putting in recent weeks and believes that confidence is the key . |
| 14 | This is a topic which the E E F has been promoting hard since last October . |
| 15 | Rigney has been training quietly on his own over the past few weeks and believes that he will be back in action in the New Year for Greystones . |
| 16 | Barclays Bank in Britain has been casting about for months for a chief executive . |
| 17 | The main market for Japan 's semiconductor makers — the American computer industry — has been sinking deeper into slump since August 1990 . |
| 18 | For a while now the narrow house has been filling up with medical paraphernalia , with doctoring tackle . |
| 19 | er Again it 's difficult to say , the information has been leaking out from the talks , er it does n't look as though a pay formula is being included but Roger Pulne , er even on the onset of this dispute guaranteed the members er that any deal that was struck with management would include a pay formula and er if the deal does n't come out with a pay formula after the ballot as I say , I think people are going to be very disappointed and let-down by our union negotiators . |
| 20 | Heavy snow falls will affect sport , but river has been fishing well with good catches of dace and roach from Conham , especially around the footbridge and Boardmill . |
| 21 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 22 | Use of Ingres products has been expanding rapidly in Eastern Europe over the past few years through local distributors in the Czech Republic , Hungary , Poland , Slovakia , and Slovenia , the company says , with customers including the Polish Central Statistical Office and the Stock Exchange in Budapest , Hungary . |
| 23 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that if the Labour party implemented even a fraction of the spending priorities that it has been spreading around over the past year or two , to the tune of £30 billion or £40 billion extra expenditure , it would not only have to face the problem of raising taxation , but would have to resort to massive borrowing , which would increase interest rates and greatly damage the economy ? |
| 24 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 25 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 26 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 27 | Now it 's all because somebody has been messing about with . |
| 28 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 29 | She has been living there since leaving Keith in the family home a mile away . |
| 30 | In the sandy soils under General Ripper 's airbase , as in aquifers throughout the agricultural Europe , the ‘ time bomb ’ of nitrate pollution has been ticking away since the 1950s . |