Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 2 | ‘ We have customers who have been using the same set for more than 20 years , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Er this is quite commonly accepted as er in use in many places and I think my our colleagues on the other side of the table have been using the same basic modelling methodology . |
| 4 | Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service . |
| 5 | ‘ Fishermen from all over the Community have been arguing the same case — that the commission has to look after its own — and the council of ministers has singularly failed to do so . ’ |
| 6 | We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together . |
| 7 | If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time . |