Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an effort to make life more interesting for our younger members of staff and our graduate element , I have been inviting past students back to lecture on any aspect of their current work . |
| 2 | This afternoon anxious council chiefs have been meeting MMI representatives to assess the implications of MMI freezing its business . |
| 3 | The government-sponsored loan guarantees could be an alternative for some airlines which have been seeking foreign partners , the Times said . |
| 4 | In recent years , telephone companies in Western Europe have been investing fabulous sums in replacing their old , analogue networks with digital ones . |
| 5 | Since March 20th , when the Bank of Japan raised its discount rate by a further 1% ( to 5.25% ) , the banks have been warning corporate customers that loans will now cost more than 7% . |
| 6 | But more recently banks have been providing other forms of merger funding-'mezzanine debt' , which does not rate as highly in terms of claims against the company 's assets , but provides additional financial resources . |
| 7 | But quiz shows have been getting more viewers than Eldorado . |
| 8 | This has meant that dead animals are left by the roadside for the council to collect , and the local slaughterhouses have been receiving sick animals as some farmers try to use it as a replacement for the knacker 's yard . |
| 9 | Over the past decade , practitioners in neighbourhood or community-based teams have been developing closer relationships with the people they serve . |
| 10 | While many politicians have only recently seen their green light many diesel engine manufacturers have looked further ahead , and have been developing cleaner engines , principally in response to stringent American legislation . |
| 11 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 12 | I have been coaching black kids for more than 20 years . |
| 13 | But already candidates have been holding informal sessions , enticing potential voters with great banquets of slaughtered sheep . |
| 14 | Gendarmes have been teaching French schoolchildren for twenty years , and claim by teaching kids , they teach their parents as well . |
| 15 | In the last 18 months alone Megatech has shipped in excess of 4500 copies of TAS , and since the beginning of this year sales have been averaging 400 units a month . |
| 16 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 17 | At one hospital staff have been taking extra steps to make sure patients know what choices they have , and they say the results are dramatic . |
| 18 | ‘ Registrations are running about 300 up on last year ; average prices have been £300 to £500 up on the previous year ; and our commercial customers have been taking top prices for finished Limousin crosses at markets through the UK . |
| 19 | We have been taking slow steps towards that goal and have faced a number of barriers along the way . |
| 20 | We have been addressing two audiences throughout the debate — the outside audience , whom the Opposition want to convince that this is a shock horror experience , and the audience in the House . |
| 21 | 50,000 children are admitted into hospital each year because they have been drinking harmful products . |
| 22 | The rebels have been conducting intensive negotiations with him behind the scenes . |
| 23 | So that answers all those years that I have been conducting these seminars , it answers my question not in the way I was particularly happy about I have to say , but I mean it did answer my question and then it may be them having you know I mean like sort of things I may not be particularly happy with , but maybe it is good that the papers are reflecting what the community wants . |
| 24 | Milkmen have been collecting tinned foods and medicine from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 25 | The world 's top fashion designers have been creating spectacular outfits to help raise funds for the charity Oxfam in its fiftieth year . |
| 26 | Having just purchased a lovely thoroughbred mare , I have been considering various events I could take up . |
| 27 | In our consideration of technology and the production of particular artefacts we have been considering portable items which would have been of assistance to everyday life , some more so than others . |
| 28 | Although it probably sounds odd that I am suggesting negotiating a written agreement with your teenager , psychologists have been using business-style contracts to resolve family conflicts for some years now . |
| 29 | Notice that we have been using reverse operations to show direction , Forward or " plus " to the right of 0 , backward or " minus " to the left . |
| 30 | Members range from major companies who have been using home-based workers for years to self-employed solicitors , translators and public relations people . |