Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been pushing for more effective action from the NIO for years and it is utter nonsense to say otherwise , ’ he said . |
| 2 | You can not pretend to people who , like you , have been pretending for as long as they can remember : they do not let you get away with it . |
| 3 | Rail fares have been rising at around 1 ½ per cent over inflation in recent years and the new corporate plan also warns that BR has 12 months to assess whether passengers would pay even more for a better service . |
| 4 | In a small way , private schemes also exist in Maryland and Ohio , though these too have been struggling of late . |
| 5 | ‘ Candidates have been ringing from all over the country wanting copies ; I have only been able to get my hands on two copies yet , ’ she said . |
| 6 | What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system , Fodor calls the central systems . |
| 7 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 8 | if they have been sniffing for so e time , arrange a health check |
| 9 | Thus , this survey combined the two methods we have been looking at above . |
| 10 | Selfing populations of plants could be valuable material , although the retention of unused yet presumably expensive floral features in some populations raised doubts as to whether they have been selfing for long enough to reach evolutionary equilibrium . |
| 11 | It 's a kind of health farm and you go there to sample a simple lifestyle which Mongolians have been enduring for about 3,000 years and you are going to put up with for twenty-four hours . |
| 12 | I keep rehearsing that low brace that I have been thinking about ever since we set a date for our attempt . |
| 13 | I feel it sums up many of the issues we have been thinking about recently … ’ |
| 14 | Those attached to long subduction zones , such as the Pacific Plate , have been moving at comparatively high velocities ( 60–90 mm a- 1 ) , whereas plates lacking extensive subducting boundaries have experienced slower rates of movement ( below 40 mm a-1 ) . |
| 15 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 16 | The narrow gauge line 's diesel locomotive and two former man-rider carriages have been operating for almost a year at a small extra charge to visitors . |
| 17 | Like Mr Nicholson , I have been commuting for more than ten years from Fife , but hardly ever by car , which I find is too nerve-wracking and frustrating an experience and almost as bad as commuting by bus . |
| 18 | Despite the fact that very few reservoirs have been functioning for more than 10 years , cases have been described in which dysplasia and carcinoma have been seen in colitic pouches and adenomas in FAP pouches . |
| 19 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 20 | The triplets have been coming in here . |
| 21 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 22 | In Canada retail sales have been growing by as much as eight per cent a year , even after inflation . |
| 23 | I have been playing for about 13 years now , and doing so for pleasure . |
| 24 | Devaluing activity , assimilating it in analogous models ( art , science , technology ) , design makes of itself models of its practice which deny design ( in the sense we have been working towards here ) both in process and in end . |
| 25 | We have been waiting for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 26 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 27 | The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent . |
| 28 | The annual Livewire competition is open to 16 to 25 year olds who have been trading for less then a year . |
| 29 | Experiments to find vine clones best suited to the solumological and climatical conditions of Champagne have been continuing for more than twenty years . |
| 30 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |