Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At The Gnoll , while the outside world has been chortling at Neath 's discomfiture , they have insisted all along that every club is entitled to a transitional season now and then . |
| 32 | For Cable & Wireless , the CITIC investment would remove what analysts describe as the ‘ political factor ’ which has been hanging over Hong Kong Telecom . |
| 33 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
| 34 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 35 | He added : ‘ She has been living off prostitution and is a heroin addict . |
| 36 | Charles has been living at Highgrove and Diana has been based at Kensington Palace . |
| 37 | He therefore has been living with friends , sleeping on their floors , for the last few weeks , because he 's complied explicitly with the conditions of his bail . |
| 38 | Laura has been living with family friends Foreign Office minister Tristan Garel-Jones and his wife Catalina and their four daughters and one son . |
| 39 | Harris , who has been living in Minnesota and will eventually have to relocate , is to chair SCO 's executive committee , which includes vice presidents Doug Michels , Sam Spadafora , Dan Steimle and Lars Turndal . |
| 40 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 41 | The Marble Palace , a section of the Russian Museum , has seen an exhibition of works by Vladimir Nekrasov , who since 1976 has been living in America . |
| 42 | Former drug addict Jamie , who served a prison term for driving offences , has been living in London with girlfriend Arabella Tait since the split with his wife . |
| 43 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 44 | The Pushkin Museum is holding an exhibition by Mikhail Kulakov , who has been living in Italy since 1976 . |
| 45 | Lynn Schofield ( Mrs Haight ) has been living in Toronto since 1974 , where her husband is an E.N.T. specialist , and is at present Executive Assistant to the President of Scotiabank . |
| 46 | An old man who has been living in exile returns to Prague in 1998 . |
| 47 | The Dalai Lama , the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people , has been living in exile at Dharamsala , India , since 1959 . |
| 48 | At Benjamin Rhodes , there are new paintings by Simon Edmondson ( 17 June-7 August ) , who has been living in Madrid for the last twelve months and previously showed with Nicola Jacobs . |
| 49 | Sabine , whose mother is German and father is Irish , has been living in Stuttgart for one year . |
| 50 | He has been living in Thailand , has a Thai wife and speaks Thai . |
| 51 | The whole community has been living in fear for far too long , menaced equally by both sets of paramilitaries . |
| 52 | The Halifax , which has been experimenting with auctions for several months , had no fewer than 82 repossessed houses and flats in the sale . |
| 53 | A sturdily middle-class society does not sit easily atop political immobility ; and , indeed , Taiwan has been experimenting with reform for the past three years . |
| 54 | Listening to the news through a set of headphones is at the core of the work and for the last year there has been monitoring of television broadcasts by satellite . |
| 55 | The average size of transactions , it was noted above , has been rising over time and now amounts to about £1 million for transactions with customers and about £4 million for intra-market business . |
| 56 | Authorities in Serbia again blocked a UN relief convoy which has been trying for days to reach the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica . |
| 57 | Karen Gorbutt , 30 , from South London , has been trying for years to get her partner , Matthew Allen , 30 , to be considerate around the house . |
| 58 | A READER writes that she has been trying for weeks to find the outcome of the Prime Minister 's ‘ Taking Stock ’ exercise . |
| 59 | The mystique of the rapid has been building since day one , and now , at cocktail hour , Crystal assumes demonic proportions . |
| 60 | He has been on sick leave for more than three months during which Avon County Council has been inquiring into phone calls said to have been made from his Bristol office to soft-porn ‘ adult ’ 0898 numbers . |