Example sentences of "have be [verb] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we have been seeking similar promotional competitions with northern theatres [ and we have n't given up yet ] we do not have the facilities to run a comprehensive programme of regional competitions . |
| 2 | A team of qualified volunteers have been providing free short- term counselling — generally six to eight weekly sessions — with waiting times kept to a minimum . |
| 3 | OVER the last two weeks special couriers have been delivering mysterious brown paper packages to literary editors around London . |
| 4 | A great many people have been getting good local press publicity for Medau during the summer . |
| 5 | A large number of smaller companies there have been receiving regional selective assistance since the middle 1980s . |
| 6 | And in Sweden , although in the 1930s unions and managements found common ground in their efforts to increase efficiency under capitalism and avoid state intervention in their relationship , since the 1970s the unions have been promoting new socio-political goals . |
| 7 | Ten parts of South Africa ( not necessarily contiguous geographical entities but based on ethnic groupings ) have been designated by the government as " homelands " for Africans ; four of these have been declared independent sovereign states but are recognized only by South Africa and by each other ; the remainder are at various stages of " self-government " . |
| 8 | Ten parts of South Africa ( not necessarily contiguous geographical entities but based on ethnic groupings ) have been designated by the government as " homelands " for Africans ; four of these ( Bophuthatswana , Ciskei , Transkei and Venda ) have been declared independent sovereign states but are recognized only by South Africa and each other ; the remainder ( Gazankulu , KaNgwane , KwaNdbele , KwaZulu , Lebowa and Qwaqwa ) are at various stages of " self-government " . |
| 9 | Centres should note , that to recognise student achievement on more than one instrument , modules have been given separate instrumental categories . |
| 10 | The mujahedin have been using US-supplied Chinese and Egyptian-made rockets in recent years to shell Kabul , but there has been no previous evidence of Western rockets being given to the guerrillas . |
| 11 | Q I have been using extra red Henna on my hair for almost two years while I 've been growing my hair . |
| 12 | This continues the series of major loan exhibitions from the British Museum to the University of East Anglia past subjects include Benin bronzes which have been made possible due to the high standard of the exhibition space , security arrangements and environment control in Norwich , which meets the Museum 's stringent loan requirements . |
| 13 | To enable them to fulfil these tasks UDCs have been granted extensive financial , planning and land acquisition powers . |
| 14 | In West Africa two Institutes have been delegated important curricular functions at primary level : at Ahmadu Bello and Sierra Leone Universities ( the latter not until 1968 ) . |
| 15 | If you have been told to aim for a very precise figure , or have been following conventional height-to-weight charts , then you are almost definitely trying for an unrealistic weight . |
| 16 | LINFORD CHRISTIE and Sally Gunnell , Britain 's Olympic track gold medallists , have been voted top sporting personalities for 1992 by the Sports Writers ' Association of Great Britain . |
| 17 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 18 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 19 | AFGHAN guerrillas have been infiltrating Soviet Central Asia with ‘ narcotics , arms and other instruments of subversion ’ in an attempt to overthrow Soviet rule and set up Islamic governments , according to the KGB chief in the Soviet republic of Tadjikistan . |
| 20 | Over recent years , environmental concerns have been driving genuine environmental improvements across a wide range of processes and products . |
| 21 | Shareholders have been promised unchanged total dividends of not less than 5.25p this year . |
| 22 | Work has also been done with English and communications skills staff who have been offered separate introductory courses which build on their existing expertise in language analysis . |
| 23 | During the past decade , I have been studying small-to medium-sized , fast-growing organisations . |