Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 2 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 3 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 4 | ‘ An accumulation of socioeconomic problems that have been developing for 25 years are closing in on blacks like a vice , ’ says veteran African-American author and social theorist Harold Cruse . |
| 5 | After more than a decade of decline , the numbers have been rising since 1985 . |
| 6 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 7 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 8 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 9 | The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties . |
| 10 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 11 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |
| 12 | I would actually like to know your answer to this question , since I have been discussing with one or two other people whether one could hope to persuade Regional Railways to introduce a cheap fare for small groups of people , say on winter weekdays on quiet lines like the Central Wales and the Cambrian Coast . |
| 13 | Japanese share prices have been falling for three years and have more than halved in value since the peaks reached in 1989 . |
| 14 | Yet mystics have been saying for thousands of years that we are all aspects of a greater whole — that our separateness is an illusion , that we are ultimately One . |
| 15 | ‘ There it is — the bush — trees that have been standing for hundreds of years . ’ |
| 16 | Many reports , and particularly the Black Report and the more recent Health Education Council ‘ The Health Divide ’ have used the relationship between occupational class and death rates over time to demonstrate that inequalities in health between socio-economic groups have been increasing since 1951 and perhaps since 1931 . |
| 17 | We have been negotiating for eight years with the Faroese authorities in an effort to get them to stop , without success . |
| 18 | Wilkinson said : ‘ Grimsby have been playing with five at the back and gave Ipswich a tough last match . |
| 19 | They are part of a BMS Action Team and have been working for six months of mission in France . |
| 20 | sometimes artists have been working for two or three years , releasing records unsuccessfully , although the public 's perception is that their first hit must be their first record . |
| 21 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 22 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Since giving up work to start my family , I have been working on two books — a novel and a cookery book related to my former job ( I was a home economist ) . |
| 24 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 25 | Do you realise that those four or five women from the RVH have been fighting since 1984 for some sort of fairness and equality in their pay ? |
| 26 | McNeill said : ‘ I have been waiting for two days for this supposed written offer . |
| 27 | The company have been trading since 1897 . |
| 28 | Certainly that was Donat 's experience , writing from the set of Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) : ‘ No script to go on — just a mass of blarney from A. K. Our first complete script arrived five days ago — we have been filming for sixteen weeks ! |
| 29 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 30 | Circuses have been going for two hundred years . |