Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 there was new legislation to restore these traditional colours to houses in the island and banning the use of unpainted aluminium for windows , gates and so on , which have been spoiling many of the traditional buildings . |
| 2 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 3 | Lately however , many of its opponents have been getting used to the idea . |
| 4 | Police have been getting tough with drivers over the new tyre safety legislation which came into force yesterday . |
| 5 | The Jarvis ' from Frimley Stables at Aston Upthorpe have been getting ready for their big day . |
| 6 | As the Autumn fox hunting season gets underway , animal rights protestors have been holding one of the biggest demonstrations seen in the region . |
| 7 | It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house . |
| 8 | But few Japanese beverage companies yet make drinks-cans with tab openers that remain attached to the cans — even though companies in the US and Canada have been manufacturing these for almost 15 years . |
| 9 | We have been seeing this from the development of the transistor to its becoming very widespread now , being replaced and developed in the form of integrated circuits so now we have the microprocessor chip . |
| 10 | We have been considering some of the ways in which the late Roman world inhabited by Christians was transformed in fact and in their imagination . |
| 11 | We have been using these for only a number of weeks now , but the response has been very encouraging . |
| 12 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |
| 13 | Hundreds of refugees in Srebrenica in eastern eastern Bosnia have been living rough on the streets and eating bread made from corn husks . |
| 14 | Some of the horses have been living wild on a hillside overlooking the farm . |
| 15 | Those who have been living near to parents or who have remained in very close touch with them , are going to feel the immediate absence of the parent they loved more keenly than those who have broken away from close family ties and kept up only a dutiful contact with father or mother . |
| 16 | Gregory and Gary O'Kane have been looking sharp in the Saffron jersey recently while Jim Close and Sean Paul McKillop are match-winners in their own right . |
| 17 | He explained that a couple of centuries ago the course was leased out as a rabbit farm and , well , ever since , the creatures have been hopping wild across the four courses . |
| 18 | Canoeists and surfers have been riding one of the biggest Severn Bores that will be seen this year . |
| 19 | Although Common have been riding high on top of division one for the best part of the season , with luck they will not have forgotten their 3–0 home defeat by Alton Bass in October . |
| 20 | Those sub-pop noise boys — Slug — have been riding high in the local artists chart with their brand new demo . |
| 21 | The Civil Aviation Authority has ordered cuts in pilots ' hours after the discovery that flight crews have been falling asleep in the cockpit . |
| 22 | While the employment rates of lone mothers have been falling those of married mothers have been rising . |
| 23 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 24 | Millions of parents have been saying this for months . |
| 25 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
| 26 | Theologians have been arguing this for two thousand years … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Fan have been growing bored with the sex and drugs and rock and roll syndrome . |
| 28 | More recently , record company and music publishing A&R staff have been assessing much of the same talent from different standpoints . |
| 29 | It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along . |
| 30 | As the Russian-Cuban and Chinese plans develop for Southern Africa , I have been spending much of the past four weeks working with a man who played a part twenty years ago in developing these plans . |