Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past 150 years our politicians have been droning on about the need to train the British worker to the level of the German , oblivious to the somewhat obvious fact that we are not Germans so can not be expected to behave like them . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 4 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 7 | She will know , furthermore , of the furore brewing in every pub and office in the land , ever since Allan Lamb , who plays for England , bravely explained to my colleagues what Wasim and Whacker — sorry , Waqar — have been getting up to . |
| 8 | Even British farmers have been getting in on the act , attracted by the lure of cheap agricultural land at prices half those on our side of the Channel . |
| 9 | The Chinese have been inching back towards economic reform . |
| 10 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 11 | The salaries of senior directors have been rising by between 20 per cent and 30 per cent over the last year and the trend shows little sign of slowing . |
| 12 | Liverpool have been holding on since November 9 for news of the left-sided 22-year-old while government officials check to see if there are any objections from the FA or Players ' Union . |
| 13 | If you have been holding off before making changes , now is the time for making some new beginnings . |
| 14 | Thousands of picnickers have been dining out in style at a giant fireworks concert . |
| 15 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 16 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For the province 's future Olympic hopefuls have been brushing up on skills both on and off the sports fields . |
| 19 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 20 | In fact , such series have been building up around us gradually , until they have now become a major part of the market . |
| 21 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 22 | In fact , women have been speaking out on this issue for some time — among them Sue Cavanagh , co-author of a report on women 's loos published by the Women 's Design Service . |
| 23 | Many church leaders have been speaking out in favour of changes that would make African societies more participatory . |
| 24 | Hundreds of chicks and ducklings have been hatching out in plenty of time for the seasonal cheer , as Martin Graham-Scott found out . |
| 25 | Later generations of women have been catching up with their male contemporaries as far as the acquisition of paper qualifications is concerned . |
| 26 | A few major labels have been sniffing around on the strength of ‘ Rockin' The Forest ’ . |
| 27 | Wesley and I have been looking round at just a few of the many attractions this year … |
| 28 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
| 29 | ‘ But it is such a useful box , ’ she said , ‘ I have been looking about for one like it . |
| 30 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |