Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] more [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I see you 've been having more fun and games ! ’ |
| 2 | Latterly , Lima has been receiving more migrants from the poorest and remotest departments . |
| 3 | The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields . |
| 4 | One project that Warnke has had in mind since he came to Hamburg in 1982 , has been finding more space for the art history department , and to this end he has had his eye on the former Warburg house with its famous oval reading room , conceived by Aby Warburg and opened to readers in 1926 , one year after his death . |
| 5 | VAUXHALL has been giving more details of changes and additions to its range for the sales year . |
| 6 | One evening , after he 'd been answering more questions from Coombs and Beeding , Quigley came into my room when I was doing my homework . |
| 7 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 8 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 9 | If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit . |
| 10 | He had been paying more attention than she thought . |
| 11 | It sounds as though you 've been using more conditioner than your hair needs . |
| 12 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 13 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 14 | I 've been doing more thinking about what we should do in future . |
| 15 | But quiz shows have been getting more viewers than Eldorado . |
| 16 | Floods have been causing more problems for motorists . |
| 17 | So Iraq has now formally asked the Turks to shorten the cut-off period but the Turks reply that they have been releasing more water down the river and the Iraquis should have been able to build up stocks . |
| 18 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
| 19 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
| 20 | I am sure that there is common ground with my hon. Friend , because I accept that we need steadily to improve training — indeed , we have been putting more money into that . |
| 21 | The KM rides have been attracting more participants every year — and the strain on the facilities is beginning to tell . |
| 22 | We have been doing more heavyweight interviews . |
| 23 | ’ I gather she 's been causing more trouble . ’ |