Example sentences of "people have been [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For months Weatherbury people had been discussing the party that Mr Boldwood was going to give just before Christmas , and now the day had finally arrived . |
| 2 | Even in the best years for agriculture , people have been leaving the land because the trend is towards larger units , maximising productivity and getting the best out of the work force . |
| 3 | ‘ People have been buying the Mirror as a souvenir , snapping up five or six at a time . ’ |
| 4 | Clearly , while an increasing proportion of the population have been buying their houses , working-class people have been buying the cheapest housing on the market . |
| 5 | Thanks to specially-adapted boats many new people have been catching the sailing bug . |
| 6 | And our other project will probably be in Malaysia , where we 're hoping to be able to fund lawyers to go and visit the indigenous tribes , and educate them about the Malaysian process of law , because at the moment I 'm sure you 'll know that various indigenous people have been blockading the logging roads that go on to their demarcated territory . |
| 7 | Others tell us Apple 's Enterprise people have been shopping the thing around for a while apparently to further insinuate the Mac into the corporate environment . |
| 8 | People have been studying the behavioural functions of the brain for something less than two centuries and , for much of that time , their efforts have been hampered by a combination of inevitable ignorance and adherence to implausible psychological theories . |