Example sentences of "it [verb] [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been taking on staff , including temporary organisers in the constituencies , whose contracts will expire four weeks after a general election . |
| 2 | ‘ It has been operating out of the airport for the past five years and on a more frequent basis than it is doing now and we have not had any complaints of this nature in the past . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that if the Labour party implemented even a fraction of the spending priorities that it has been spreading around over the past year or two , to the tune of £30 billion or £40 billion extra expenditure , it would not only have to face the problem of raising taxation , but would have to resort to massive borrowing , which would increase interest rates and greatly damage the economy ? |
| 4 | ( This story seems to have originated in North America half a century ago and it has been cropping up all over that continent ever since . ) |
| 5 | A glance at the coupon of the new issue and what it has been paying out on the ones being redeemed shows the reason for the moves . |
| 6 | Siemens AG has been having such a tough time in the former Soviet Union with its nuclear safety and telecommunications projects that it has been cutting back and recalling expatriates early ( CI No 2,043 ) , but Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG does have some work . |
| 7 | members to members , and not perhaps for officers to interfere too much other than to give you background information , and it has been falling off , let me just say that . |
| 8 | ‘ My knee feels all right when I am running , bit it has been swelling up slightly afterwards . |
| 9 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 10 | It has been turning out bombs and shells since 1939 , and the Gulf war has already begun to embellish a colourful history . |
| 11 | It will produce a series of prototype versions of the Mach microkernel it has been working on with experimental extensions for real-time and high-trust portable working across a range of hardware architectures , especially non-shared memory supercomputers . |
| 12 | It will produce a series of prototype versions of the Mach microkernel it has been working on with experimental extensions for real-time and high-trust portable across a range of hardware architectures , especially non-shared memory supercomputers . |
| 13 | ( a ) A wrasse emerging from the mouth of a grouper ( Plectrotromus maculatus ) which it has been cleaning up . |
| 14 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 15 | Today 's decline in the fertility rate does not have as superstitious , or short-lived , a cause : it has been going on steadily since 1970 . |
| 16 | ( It has been going on successfuly with Irish Rail and the Dublin Dart for years ) . |
| 17 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 19 | It , I mean it has been going up rather high , this has been |
| 20 | It had been lashing down when they 'd gone in . |
| 21 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 22 | Since the 1970s it had been fending off pressure from Scandinavia . |
| 23 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 24 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 25 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 26 | It had been bucketing down when she 'd left home that morning . |
| 27 | Christian leaders who had been thinking of it have been backing off . |
| 28 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 30 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |