Example sentences of "but it has be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 2 | The item that makes everyone tick at PE also lies within the former gunnery hall , but it has been receiving attention since its arrival — within the hold of a Safair L–100 Hercules . |
| 3 | Social embarrassment , duly fictionalised , is an odd commodity to export , and it does not figure in official balance-of-payments figures ; but it has been selling around the world since Fielding 's Tom Jones and Scott 's Waverley , not to mention Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster . |
| 4 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |
| 5 | The smaller , darker mountain type with black points and mucosae is very like the Piedmont of northwest Italy and is ideal for extensive systems , but it has been declining in numbers over the last 50 years and by 1980 was down to about 35,000 . |