Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemingly symbiotic link has been damaging to the more general applicability of these criteria in other contexts . |
| 2 | In the pilot 's seat Bill has been listening to the conversation behind him . |
| 3 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
| 4 | Lt Col Stewart has been reporting to the UN on some of the dreadful conditions suffered by refugees at the front-line town of Maglaj , where he said the situation was ‘ disgraceful . ’ |
| 5 | For 40 years the North Warren Fen , between Aldeburgh and Thorpeness , has been succumbing to the advances of dominant vegetation and specialised reedbed bird species such as bittern , bearded tit and marsh harrier have suffered as a result . |
| 6 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 7 | Harold Lock has been coming to the pool since he was a child and says it would be a crime to close it down . |
| 8 | Labour 's deputy leader has been saying to the councils , ’ You may not get as much as you want , but you will certainly get more . ’ |
| 9 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
| 10 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 11 | ‘ CCG has been responding to the implications of the Act since its publication last year . |
| 12 | The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s . |
| 13 | Third To make the public aware of what has been happening to the badger . |
| 14 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 15 | A few moments later , acquitted defendant Daniel Winter , who 'd been listening to the closing speeches , ran from the building . |
| 16 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
| 17 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 18 | You must have been listening to the B.B.C. or something . ’ |
| 19 | And it gets in your hair and it gets in your clothes , she must have been listening to the television . |
| 20 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 21 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 22 | The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed . |
| 23 | A Royal Ulster Constabulary spokesman said : ‘ Although he may have been coming to the end of his racing career , he was potentially valuable for stud purposes . ’ |
| 24 | In Imperial Gothic he should have been praying to the God-Emperor for help . |
| 25 | Martin and Roberts ( 1984 , pp. 11–12 ) found that older women , many of whom would not have been contributing to the state pension scheme in their own right , tended to leave the labour market in their mid-fifties . |
| 26 | Comparison of ‘ To Lucinda ’ with the first publication of ‘ The Rural Maid 's Reflexions ’ shows that Browne , for whatever reason , changed at least one title , though he may have been returning to the original . |
| 27 | He might have been talking to the sheep when he said softly : |
| 28 | The report focused on a United States pharmaceutical company , Velsicol Chemical Corporation , which had been exporting to the Third World large quantities of chlordane and heptachlor , " two of the most highly toxic persistent and bio-accumulative insecticides ever made " according to the report . |
| 29 | For some time Leonard had been listening to the music of the day , which he shared with his mother and sister . |
| 30 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |