Example sentences of "that have [been] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 2 | And then she said : ‘ Mebbe he 's one of that gang that has been holding up grocery stores . ’ |
| 3 | All morning it has been calm but now we are threatened by a storm that has been brewing out to the west . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not interested in all the tittle-tattle that has been flying about . ’ |
| 5 | It 's beginning to feel like an age old question , or certainly one that has been hanging around since the dark ages . |
| 6 | Opening the can of Coke that has been rattling round in your school bag all morning . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The plan is the action plan for a great deal of thinking that has been going on . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In recent years it has been the guitar that has been changing most rapidly . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | With neither the political crisis that Labour 's resignation from the Government would have caused , nor the industrial explosion , which — however much pacifists might fear it — would undoubtedly have created new possibilities for their politics , the momentum that had been building up since the Russian Revolution nearly a year earlier was sharply checked . |
| 26 | that he finally gave way to the tears that had been building up inside him since Michael 's visit . |
| 27 | Some hours later , after a torrential thunderstorm , the wriggling foot , that had been kicking in very strange places , finally broke through and I soke at five in the morning with a warm , wet feeling . |
| 28 | In the brief walk from No. 22 to his own flat he had pulled from the back of his mind a conviction that had been forming there without much conscious thought on his part , just something he knew . |
| 29 | There was no sound or sign of life other than the scolding of blackbirds and the sudden dash of a startled fawn that had been grazing absorbedly on the fresh grass at the forest edge . |
| 30 | So that national er budget that had been accumulating over , over twenty thirty years just basically vanished . |