Example sentences of "that have been [v-ing] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | A five-member UN war crimes commission that has been sifting through mountains of documents submitted by governments and non-governmental bodies is building a computerised database of reported atrocities , accompanied by names of victims , alleged perpetrators and witnesses . |
| 2 | Under licence from Chorus it will be bringing out a product based on the System V 3.2/Intel technology of Chorus Mix so it can pursue the real-time and telecomms business that has been slipping through its fingers . |
| 3 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 4 | These efforts by the government were given more force through the White Paper Better Schools , which outlined the aims that had been emerging through the previous documents . |
| 5 | He began to whistle a tune that had been dancing through his head ever since he left the pub : |