Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 2 | The change over the past 2,700 years means days have been getting longer at an average rate of 1.7 milliseconds per 100 years . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , specialist retailers like Dixons , an electricals chain , and niche shops like Tie Rack have been paring away at the department stores ' share of the high-street market . |
| 4 | Spoil-sports maintain that IR is merely a new name for what companies have been muddling along at anyway : arranging meetings between management and institutions , co-ordinating the annual general meeting , and producing the annual report . |
| 5 | Wesley and I have been looking round at just a few of the many attractions this year … |
| 6 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
| 7 | However , in insisting on a two-year probation period for new assemblers , the Polish government runs the risk that firms such as Wyse Technology Inc , which have been looking seriously at manufacturing in the country , may find short-term sales opportunities unattractive . |
| 8 | We have been frequent visitors at Government House and have been staying also at their cottage , New Norfolk . |
| 9 | Labour Councillors in Oxfordshire have been hitting back at Tory critics , who claim their actions have inflated Poll Tax figures . |
| 10 | Computers have been working overtime at corporate headquarters since last Tuesday 's announcement in an attempt to assess the impact on individual project and company cash flow . |
| 11 | That action mainly has to be pressuring the Thames Water Utility Company to er to get its act together , and I must say that er since the last outbreak , they have been working hard at it . |
| 12 | WARSAW — About 100 East Germans have been arriving daily at the West German embassy In Warsaw , hoping to join the 1,436 who have gained passage to the West via Poland since 30 September , AFP reports . |
| 13 | Essex have been practising outdoors at Chelmsford since April 1 , which gives them a week 's start on Durham , although they did not have a winter tour . |