Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think we would 've been standing outside the gates . |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | The Old Berkshire Hunt , based at nearby Faringdon , has been hunting in the area since 1830 . |
| 4 | Agribusiness , which has been moving into the luxury end of the market , with the growth of carnations in Colombia and strawberries in Mexico for sale in the United States , has contributed to the high level of exports . |
| 5 | THERE 'S little doubt that over the past decade the British public has been moving towards the Tory party 's ideal of a nation of home owners . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The ash cloud has been moving around the earth at 75 mph at an altitude of about 15 miles up in the stratosphere . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This seemingly symbiotic link has been damaging to the more general applicability of these criteria in other contexts . |
| 11 | Mr Guerin has not been seen since the scandal broke , and has been communicating with the authorities through his lawyer in Philadelphia . |
| 12 | ‘ All the attention Shane has been receiving from the media is very flattering , but it 's getting a bit out of control with phone calls at 5.00am , ’ said coach Bob Simpson . |
| 13 | The UK subsidiary has been eating into the parent company 's profits due to start up costs for its paging and mobile communications operations . |
| 14 | The sight of the greyish kettle beside the gas-ring , and of the yellowish mug which has been drying on the little draining-board for the last fifteen years , makes me think of tea . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Luckily , despite the cramped conditions , I was able to block the inspector 's view , thereby obscuring Colin Webley 's neanderthal plumbing and the various cultures and mould growths my boy Chester has been propagating on the water tank as part of his Tech . |
| 17 | Her novels have the same honest sensitivity as the photographs she has been taking since the 1930s — photographs of rural poverty in Mississippi , of back streets with laundry drying on a line , of proud school teachers , of plum-pickers with their tin buckets . |
| 18 | I 've watched Howard Kendall 's side recently , and the stuff they have been serving up has been bordering on the pathetic compared to earlier performances this season . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Britain has been steering in the direction of low-tax economy for the last ten years . |
| 20 | Vanessa Stedman , one of the winners of the GH/NatWest Bank Enterprising Women Awards 1991 , wrote to tell us that since appearing in our November issue , the postman has been staggering under the weight of all the orders for her fashionable appliqué T-shirts . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For the first time that anyone can remember , the Soviet Union has been buying at the London auction . |
| 23 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 24 | The territorial assembly has been calling for the tests to stop until proper health studies are done . |
| 25 | For years , Costa Rica has been calling for the extradition of US citizen John Hull , charged with premeditated homicide , drugs and arms trafficking , along with other criminal acts including participation in the 1984 bombing of a news conference at La Penca , in which six died . |
| 26 | Prince Saud al-Feisal , the Foreign Minister , has been calling upon the MPs to urge them to put the future of their country before any factional ambitions . |
| 27 | The representative collection of 20th century art which Lancaster University has been amassing since the 1960s and 1970s by purchase , gifts and bequests , is to be housed in a worthy new purpose-built annex to the already existing and refurbished Peter Scott Gallery . |
| 28 | ‘ The market we operate in has been expanding despite the trials and tribulations of the retail recession and we need more space , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Already the world 's largest independent manufacturer , Bunzl has been expanding in the US and plans joint venture in India . |
| 30 | The Princess of Wales has been speaking about the problems faced by people caring for loved ones who have suffered brain damage . |