Example sentences of "the [adj] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly 40 per cent of the unemployed had been claiming benefit for at least 52 weeks in mid 1989 , although ‘ turnover ’ among shorter duration claimants was by then fairly rapid . |
| 2 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 3 | Until then the English had been sailing to places so far from effective Spanish opposition and so thinly populated that the government had not had to provide any help . |
| 4 | The British have been voicing them for years . |
| 5 | One of the problems with fighting the war is that the Americans and the British have been offering more and more arms to the Saudis and the Gulf states . |
| 6 | The French have been accusing us of lack of co-operation lately — military co-operation , that is . |
| 7 | THE FRENCH have been shifting their money from the stock market into Paris property , according to Donnelle Higbee , who runs Hampton 's Paris office . |
| 8 | ‘ The French have been pressing Anglo-French union again [ 11 September ] . |
| 9 | The problem faced by Detroit 's producers is that , while some new American cars have been panned as dumpy and boring , the Japanese have been rolling out a stream of glittering and highly praised new vehicles . |
| 10 | Mr Prais said the accused had been receiving treatment for depression at the State Hospital in Carstairs and the Crown 's view was that psychiatric help should be continued . |
| 11 | Mr Goldring said the accused had been giving him his grandmother 's tablets . |
| 12 | Held motionless in zero gravity by the robots with no input of information whatever , the three had been undergoing sensory deprivation for the past hour . |
| 13 | In February the authorities had said that the three had been providing unspecified international agencies with information on human rights in Egypt and on public opinion with respect to the economic situation . |
| 14 | The latter had been watching General Francis and Margaret alternately . |
| 15 | Here the latter has been wanting : ‘ I know it sounds daft . |
| 16 | Here the latter has been wanting : ‘ I know it sounds daft . |
| 17 | Frederick the Great had been straightening his tie but now he turned round to look at me and after registering a look of surprise he called to Sally and her friend and they all burst into laughter . |
| 18 | Trained by Peter Monteith at Rosewell , just outside Edinburgh , the nine-year-old has been waiting the good ground he will encounter today and , in the words of his trainer , with prizes going down to £4,000 for fourth place and £600 for sixth , ‘ it would be mad not to run him ’ . |
| 19 | The Chinese have been inching back towards economic reform . |
| 20 | In all the examples given so far the syllabic has been following another consonant ; sometimes it is possible for another consonant to precede that consonant , but in this case a syllabic consonant is less likely to occur . |
| 21 | The first has been fighting a ( largely losing ) battle against social condemnation of " stealing other people 's homes " ; the second has been the mechanism by which to carry out government 's policies to protect some short-term occupiers ( tenants , with exclusive possession ) but not others ( licensees ) . |
| 22 | In earlier times the former had been underachieving educationally whereas the latter are now near the peak of their attainment level . |
| 23 | Usually , the former has been talking about the latter . |
| 24 | The same has been happening in the steel industry with the advent of the mini-mills . |
| 25 | The elder of the two had been coming to the house for nigh on fifteen years . |
| 26 | For the past decade , the two have been exploring the boundaries of costume exhibitions at New York 's Fashion Institute of Technology , from which they come with a dazzling reputation . |
| 27 | In its vast project to kick the mainframe habit and move to Unix-based client-server systems , Mead Corp 's database operator Mead Data Central Inc is spreading its favours around , and while some Unix business has gone to Hewlett-Packard Co , NCR Corp is also in there as a so-called strategic technology partner ( presumably its non-strategic technology partners are the people that supply the brooms they sweep the floor with ) as Mead moves existing applications off mainframes to a client-server environment : the two have been working together for the past year on projects to re-engineer access to the widely-used Lexis and Nexis on-line information services and create a new internal information system infrastructure and campus-wide network , and Mead is using NCR System 3000 symmetric multiprocessors and AT&T Co and NCR network products . |
| 28 | The two have been working on the wackier areas of the music biz for many years ‘ dabbling in whatever takes our fancy ’ as Jim puts it . |
| 29 | The two have been talking about the refurbishment since 1984 . |
| 30 | India in the 1980s has been exporting food . |