Example sentences of "it have [adv] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been running for the past three weeks against The Free Frenchman , which may turn out to be a turbo-tortoise but which started as the turn off of the week . |
| 2 | It has also been asking the public what other composers ' works it might like to see , from Franz Lehar to Ivor Novello and Noel Coward . |
| 3 | The present evidence therefore suggests that the universe will probably expand forever , but all we can really be sure of is that even if the universe is going to recollapse , it wo n't do so for at least another ten thousand million years , since it has already been expanding for at least that long . |
| 4 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 5 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 6 | BT 's new alliance should also give it the sort of access to the American market it has long been seeking . |
| 7 | It has always been puzzling enough that the proportion of men in gynaecology is higher than in any virtually any other specialty , as if detachment were an advantage in this field . |
| 8 | If it is a wet day or it has recently been raining , so much the better for showing up leaks and dampness . |
| 9 | Following legislative reforms , it has recently been making a big drive for personal pensions business which has proved successful . |
| 10 | The outward flow of direct investment by British multinationals is high in manufacturing industry : moreover it has recently been increasing . |
| 11 | I remember once when she was climbing into bed in her Waaf-issue blue striped pyjamas , a cheeky little field mouse popped up from between her sheets where it had evidently been nesting , and streaked across the hut to disappear down a convenient crack in the wooden wall . |
| 12 | It had probably been leaking , undetected , for about four years . |
| 13 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 14 | Far from having run its course , the struggle for the emancipation of the serfs was about to enter an even more heated phase than the one it had just been going through . |
| 15 | Then it had suddenly been galloping over the sleeping bodies of a large wolf pack and , again , its mad speed had been such that the furious yelping had been left far behind . |
| 16 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 17 | Well , it had all been acting , of course . |
| 18 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 19 | An old broken bicycle frame , some rusted railings , an old disintegrating metal gate … it had all been lying here and there on the property . |
| 20 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |
| 21 | And Friends of the Earth it 's only relatively new it 's only been going properly for what two years . |