Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK industry has already agreed to an 85 per cent interim cut in CFCs and carbon tetrachloride for 1993 and representatives of user industries and manufacturers have been meeting Department of the Environment officials to discuss the practicalities of cutting 1,1,1-trichloroethane and halons . |
| 2 | Talented trendspotters in Oxfam 's 27,000-strong shop volunteer-force have been amassing stocks of women 's and men 's wear to meet demand . |
| 3 | He says hoardes of people have been taking photos of the sunflowers . |
| 4 | Senior White House aides and CIA officials have been telling members of the Congressional Intelligence Committees this week that Gen Noriega is drinking heavily , taking drugs , and is so nervous that he moves addresses four and five times a night . |
| 5 | I have been collecting stamps of the world since I was eight-years old and specialize in , etc . ’ |
| 6 | Independent British film makers from all over have been writing letters of complaint . |
| 7 | All day I have been seeing pictures of him at his best ; jumbled up in no chronological sequence — Saturday evening tram rides and visits to the Hippodrome with late supper afterwards in Malvern days , earlier days of ‘ where do you want to go to ’ in the study … the ‘ Well , boys this is grand ’ at the beginning of the holiday … his little drop of whiskey : his fund of wheezes . |
| 8 | Manager Ted Pearce has not ruled out a merger with the reformed Shots who have been drawing crowds of more than 2,000 to the Recreation Ground after their blistering start in the Diadora League Division Three . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been watching videos of my fights and I have been making a lot of basic mistakes . |
| 10 | Since 1950 Japanese ethologists have been watching troops of the Japanese macaque and recording the lives of individuals within the troops . |
| 11 | There have been increasing reports of people who have applied to emigrate receiving final rejections — 43 instances are known . |
| 12 | In recent years there have been increasing numbers of visitors who enjoy the facilities which have been developed for windsurfing , scuba diving and game fishing ( tunny , marlin , barracuda etc ) . |
| 13 | The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected . |
| 14 | Q. I have two six-inch Temporales , which I bought as a pair when they were three inches long , and lately they have been showing signs of breeding , such as locking their jaws and tail slapping . |
| 15 | Such a control group could also have been identified easily as all practices have been keeping records of their referrals for x ray examinations since the introduction of the new contract in April 1990 . |
| 16 | FOR almost a quarter of a century we have been keeping records of farm fatalities . |
| 17 | MPs from Scotland and Wales have been circulating copies of The Scotsman and contrasting these with the treatment by the Western Mail . |
| 18 | You go past there and you look in that front and people have been dumping bags of rubbish over there . |
| 19 | Dr Jelley and Dr Himes have been making measurements of the beta decay of radioactive nickel ( nickel was used in the magnetic-spectrometer experiment most widely respected , one done at Canada 's Chalk River national laboratory ) . |
| 20 | These two chains have been opening stores of that size and with that stock range for nigh on 10 years on this side of the pond . |