Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [verb] [det] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Wissenschaftsrat has been trying to sort this one out , but the political factors seem to have prevented progress . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The multinational group has been getting to know each other in the Darlington convent ever since . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ He has been threatening to do that all season and this was his best performance to date . ’ |
| 8 | Though why she 'd been trying to do that , heaven only knew . |
| 9 | I talked to the boy who 'd been trying to help this Frome — trying to get him to vomit it up , and so on . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But the way Brian Harley is playing at the moment he must have been hoping to double that at least . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Sir Cyril Taylor , the Government 's adviser on CTCs , who had earlier been successful in persuading Mr Baker to commit more government funds to the 20 schools , had been hoping to get more money for a new round of schools . |
| 15 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 16 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 17 | Poor had been trying to remove this panel in the control room when we appeared and was surrounded by contractors trying to get in to start redecoration . |
| 18 | While everyone else had been trying to solve this problem by heating … to millions of degrees , we had apparently stumbled on the solution involving low temperatures instead . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , if I do , I 've chosen a pretty safe place to do it in , I think , ’ she responded tenderly , exploring the commanding contours of his face with fingers that had been aching to do this for months . |
| 20 | They were of special interest to Mr Dalyell as he had been attempting to get more information from ministers about the sinking of the General Belgrano . |
| 21 | Alice then , all clean and brushed , and in a nice blouse with the small pink flowers and the neat round collar , walked out of the house and went next door , to No. 45 , as though she had been planning to do this all day . |
| 22 | As McLeish had observed to a colleague at the ti me , he 'd have understood the whole performance if the solicitor in question had been going to marry either of them , but there had been no question of that , it was just obfuscation for its own sake . |
| 23 | It was just the sort of set-up that attracted Dustin , who had been itching to have more power over his films for some time . |
| 24 | The little girl was on her own a few yards from the rug where she had been sitting eating some moments before . |
| 25 | There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late . |
| 26 | He had been hurrying to finish this latest copy before the meal ended , and seeing through the slit that his wife was heading out across the clearing with his two small sons to begin collecting the dishes , he put aside his pencil and hastily read over what he 'd written . |
| 27 | ‘ If you knew how much I 've been wanting to do this . ’ |
| 28 | And that 's what you 've been wanting to say all evening , Merrill thought : a nice , discreet ‘ keep off ’ instruction . |
| 29 | I 've been wanting to say this for a long time . ’ |
| 30 | I 've been trying to vacuum this through all morning I have n't even done it |