Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENGINEERS at Philips in Britain have secretly been working on a flat screen television for several years , while hotly denying the fact . |
| 2 | Knuckle down to any jobs you 've been promising all and sundry to do , but have secretly been avoiding like the plague . |
| 3 | But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win . |
| 4 | Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best . |
| 5 | The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess . |
| 6 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 7 | Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis . |
| 8 | Up to this point the children have all been acting as the giant . |
| 9 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 10 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 11 | Determination , aggression and commitment have all been missing from their recent displays , but a lack of concentration denied them their first much-needed double of the season . |
| 12 | We know that Roz 's new book on ‘ tensions ’ , which you have all been waiting for , is about to be published and she is also working on another booklet of machine knitting trims . |
| 13 | ‘ I hope you have all been practising during the holiday , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , as the girls all lined up with their brooms hovering next to them and the cats perched on the back — that is to say , most of the cats were perched on the back . |
| 14 | Guest houses , inns , farmhouses and B&Bs have all been improving in the same way as the rest of the industry , so that the best of them compare in their own category with say , AA red star hotels . |
| 15 | ‘ The machine has a great potential for use at the centre and its restoration has been a project that we have all been working towards for some while . ’ |
| 16 | USL and Univel have apparently been working under non-disclosure with Intel to ensure the kernel wrings specific new performance possibilities from Intel 's anticipated 80586 chip , the P5 . |
| 17 | Although Lapwings still breed in all open habitats in the county , including heathland , numbers have apparently been declining for over 80 years . |
| 18 | Footnote : NSS readers have apparently been enquiring about the welfare of my cat , Euclid , who , as I reported last week , went missing after the earthquake . |
| 19 | Although they have apparently been happening for much longer , abductions first started coming to light in the late Sixties , but they 've really taken over UFO culture since the publication of Communion in 1987 . |
| 20 | General industrial sales staff and Cromadex centre managers have together been calling on customers to explain the advantages of the new organisation . |
| 21 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 22 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 23 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 24 | ‘ Most of these players took part last year and were delighted with the facilities and hospitality ’ says Sean Curtis : ‘ We aim to make this year 's tournament even better and , believe me , the phones have already been buzzing in relation to tickets even though they will not available until the end of this month . ’ |
| 25 | The intelligent amongst us have already been looking at the questions on page forty seven and realizing that despite the weirdness of the sound of this music there are some quite direct things that can be asked . |
| 26 | Two district councils , Angus and Cumnock & Doon Valley , have already been pressing for changes and the committee was told that many other authorities were experiencing disadvantages because of the rule . |
| 27 | Perhaps one of the most important groups for the stimulation of change is that which falls between these two poles : those teachers who I would see as belonging to the 25 to 35 year-old age group , or perhaps those who have not been teaching for more than six , or less than three , years . |
| 28 | ‘ Mr Taylor has completed ignored the fact that Catholics have been under the jackboot of the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and it is ridiculous to say that they have not been living in fear . ’ |
| 29 | One example of this " sham reading " is brought to our notice when we realise , on reaching the bottom of a page , that we have not been thinking about what the text means . |
| 30 | It slapped a ‘ for sale ’ sign on both flagships some months ago but buyers have not been queuing at the door . |