Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a mixed blessing for those of us who have been tramping the mountains for years . |
| 2 | For the past decade , the two have been exploring the boundaries of costume exhibitions at New York 's Fashion Institute of Technology , from which they come with a dazzling reputation . |
| 3 | The 17-strong group , whose ages start at about 18 but are well-balanced on the 40-plus side , have been tapping the boards at Anstey Junior School on Tuesdays since September . |
| 4 | The fact we have got a good track record and have been serving the pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals industries for some time means we can get work but we have to cut our margins . |
| 5 | " I have been serving the Turks , and am looking for better employment . |
| 6 | Marshall Valvestate combos have been getting a thumbs-up from players for some time now , but does a stereo chorus model add anything to their appeal ? |
| 7 | The soldiers have been training the police and military in anti-narcotics operations to slow the export of cocaine into America . |
| 8 | Over the last couple of decades , feminists have been rediscovering the pleasures of ‘ sisterhood ’ . |
| 9 | The seals have been robbing the creels blind . |
| 10 | For some years at Tesco , we have been collecting the boxes in which our products are delivered to stores and some of the paper that we use in our offices for re-cycling . |
| 11 | Over recent months , the Japanese and Us teams have been increasing the intensity of the forces they apply to building and model , and have been comparing the results . |
| 12 | In the north several million Iraqi Kurds have been building the sinews of an independent homeland , most but not all of which is protected by another no-fly zone . |
| 13 | In this section we have been considering the properties of hierarchies in general . |
| 14 | Arsenal 's opponents might consider the scheme — dreamed up by vice chairman David Dein and managing director Ken Friar — just a little too clever and the FA have been considering the implications since Mirror Sport 's exclusive story last week . |
| 15 | The trade winds have been moving the dunes south-west for thousands of years and show no sign of stopping , but unless they do , much of West Africa will be engulfed . |
| 16 | For a number of years they have been producing the yachts in their range in both standard and Master versions , the latter being more luxuriously appointed and intended for private ownership . |
| 17 | THE MIND Gym have been supplying The Shamen 's Synergy club with these brain machines to alter consciousness . |
| 18 | THE MIND Gym have been supplying The Shamen 's Synergy club with these brain machines to alter consciousness . |
| 19 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 20 | Plus this means that the strike committee can go public with it 's grievances , and in the past few days , the farmers and the authorities have been debating the issues on local television . |
| 21 | You see , I have been searching the moors with my telescope , and although I have not actually seen the prisoner , I have seen the person who is taking him food . ’ |
| 22 | But first of all I 'd like to congratulate the officers on the report er I 'm sure that those people who have been reading the reports and officers of the County Council for some years er will have probably er , er it 's been a long time since they 've read one that 's been expressed in such strong terms . |
| 23 | Recently I have been reading the writings of Matthew Fox , a Dominican who is very popular for his creation spirituality and love of the environment . |
| 24 | In the past two chapters , I have been discussing the mechanisms of evolution , but have said little about the outcome of the process . |
| 25 | I have been following the Ports for 30 years now , home and away , continually watching them getting thrashed week in , week out . |
| 26 | A classic example of good housekeeping which has made Cambridge a authority in the region and beyond and one that even members of the conservative government have occasionally , through gritted teeth they 're not doing a bad job , damn them and that means that the are going to think to have some of those , if you like , very good housekeeping back to the citizens who have been paying the bills over the years . |
| 27 | Norwegian scientists who have been testing the seas for several years have yet to detect any significant radioactive contaminating of fish , but they have not yet tested the water near the dumping sites . |
| 28 | Protagonists in the optical disc industry may have overlooked the fact that while they have been arguing the merits of their various platforms , hard disc storage has been growing ever larger . |
| 29 | STOCKS and shares have been hitting the headlines recently as FTSE has been hitting record levels . |
| 30 | So far we have been describing the ways in which the processes of socialisation and internalisation come to bind societies together and reproduce practices and institutions . |