Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though debt levels could be dramatically reduced through the sale of Pilkington 's Solaglass wing , for which they have been seeking a buyer . |
| 2 | A few lucky people have been realising a lifetime 's dream — mounting the footplate of the world 's most famous engine . |
| 3 | In fact it has been mainly the lesbians in the girls ' work movement who have been developing a determination to make the links between all oppressions , and who have become very clear about the need for that work to be accessible to all young women . |
| 4 | ‘ Recently , we have been developing a consortium approach to a whole range of qualifications . |
| 5 | Crews from four fire stations threatened with closure have been holding a demonstration against the plans . |
| 6 | IN MEMORY of three colleagues who died last year , Education Department staff at Torpichen Street have been holding a number of events to raise money for charity . |
| 7 | Anyway , to the issue of the C65 which I have been hearing a lot about recently , but still do n't know exactly what it does . |
| 8 | LATELY , we have been hearing a lot about date rape . |
| 9 | Oxford schoolchildren have been taking a peek behind the scenes at Sainsburys today as part of the Green Consumer Day . |
| 10 | You can expect ructions at home if you have been taking a partner for granted recently . |
| 11 | Glenn Hoddle and his men have been taking a break in Spain this week , so let ; s hope their ready and willing to kill the Posh off tomorrow . |
| 12 | We have been taking a lot of coal out these last few days , everyone has been putting the hours in . |
| 13 | Prisoners who shared a cell with an alleged murderer have been telling a jury about threats made against a police informer whose body was later found in a lake . |
| 14 | He has argued that historians who have sought to identify a Latitudinarian party within the church have been chasing a chimera , as the label was merely a vague , derogatory term devised by embittered contemporary Puritans who felt betrayed by the abandonment of predestinarian theology . |
| 15 | ‘ We have been considering a move into the US coal industry for some time and the acquisition of these mines is the first step in establishing the foundations of a new high quality business for RTZ in the USA , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Over the past couple of years , Waverley Borough Council have been considering a number of plans to redevelop the area and it was recently decided that because of the state of the building it should be demolished . |
| 17 | Police have been using a helicopter and tracker dogs to search for a man who attempted to grab a young boy . |
| 18 | If you have been using a code driven system then it 's likely that you can drive alternative systems directly ; GO Graphics ' Deskset talks to Compugraphic systems , for example . |
| 19 | While the hangar has clearly attracted much of the limelight during the last couple of years , NAM have been undertaking a programme of conservation on their larger airframes . |
| 20 | While state-owned and foreign businesses have held the centre of the stage for three decades , tens of thousands of informal sector artisans have been producing a range of goods for use in households , agriculture , transport and construction . |
| 21 | So far , however , we have been constructing a picture only indirectly . |
| 22 | For the last 5 years , chemists in Gloucestershire which display this sign have been operating a needle exchange system . |
| 23 | In the last three years we have been operating a programme of capital grants designed to assist governing bodies and their area associations gain access to facilities suitable for the standard of competition immediately below national level and serving major areas of Scotland . |
| 24 | Pro and anti-hunt demonstrators have been lobbying a meeting of the full council , where Labour is trying to rush through a ban . |
| 25 | I have been watching a film . |
| 26 | So we have been watching a battle between rival establishments for control of the UK . |
| 27 | Wildlife enthusiasts have been enjoying a treat tonight . |
| 28 | I mean that people like , you know , have said that the British secret intelligence have been have been doing now for a quite long time have been waging a sort of undercover war and er I 'm sure some of it 's true |
| 29 | Moderator I , one two eight six , I wondered whether a word from south of the border might be in order because in recent years in the Church of England we 've been busy discussing the theological foundations and the practical discipline in respect of several matters which fall under the general heading of Christian initiation and indeed we have been experimenting a bit here and there . |
| 30 | For a long time , I have been advocating a mortgage rescue scheme that would allow people to stay on in their properties on a short let tenancy . |