Example sentences of "that [vb -s] [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then she said : ‘ Mebbe he 's one of that gang that has been holding up grocery stores . ’ |
| 2 | All morning it has been calm but now we are threatened by a storm that has been brewing out to the west . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not interested in all the tittle-tattle that has been flying about . ’ |
| 4 | It 's beginning to feel like an age old question , or certainly one that has been hanging around since the dark ages . |
| 5 | Opening the can of Coke that has been rattling round in your school bag all morning . |
| 6 | However , although it is the ideal course of action for John — allowing him to take advantage of some of the excellent schemes around at the moment as well as releasing cash that has been building up in his home over the years — he should look out for excessive costs that a remortgage can incur . |
| 7 | Now it 's all hands to the deck for the close friends as they knuckle down to bring back the sparkle that has been missing down at Hamilton Park for the past few seasons . |
| 8 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 9 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 10 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 11 | For example , the TV drama ‘ Thin Air ’ in 1988 brought out some of the unpleasantness about the ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ that has been going on during the Docklands boom years . |
| 12 | My own view is that neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold knew very much about the complex debate that has been going on at least since Rousseau about progressive education , and that they did not realise that my Group would be strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher 's views about grammar and rote-learning . |
| 13 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 14 | ICL 's parallel engine will effectively productise work that has been going on since 1989 under the auspices of a European Community Esprit II project known as the European Declarative System , EDS . |
| 15 | The plan is the action plan for a great deal of thinking that has been going on . |
| 16 | The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions . |
| 17 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 18 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 19 | Menlo Park , California start-up , Wide Area Information Servers Inc , has productised some network publishing software for Unix servers that has been testing up on Internet for the last two years : WAIS Server and Workstation for Unix cost from $10,000 to $50,000. +1 415 617 0444 . |
| 20 | ‘ This has been a subject that has been bubbling around for years and with an ageing population , it is an issue that has n't been talked about enough . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And when you look at some of their shops and you see the same old wooden table that has been sitting out the front for months priced at £10 , or £20 , you realise the money has got to be coming from somewhere else — and we know it 's coming from knocking . ’ |
| 22 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 23 | It 's a performance story that 's been adding up for over a decade . |
| 24 | But there 's also a moral evolution that 's been going on . |
| 25 | He 's been worried by the deer-raiding that 's been going on . |
| 26 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 27 | It 's a ritual that 's been going on ever since the first detachment fom Lyneham came out here last December . |
| 28 | And after all the fuss that 's been going on in work I do n't really like to ask to go early . |
| 29 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 30 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |