Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last few years , increasing numbers of southern owners have been capitalising on the relative strength of property in the South . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 4 | Whilst police have been investigating the savage crime … surgeons have been opearting on the savage injuries . |
| 5 | McGuigan says his wife , Sandra , and their four children have been living on a knife-edge since Eastwood 's libel action . |
| 6 | It 's thought around 70 travellers have been living on the site for several weeks . |
| 7 | We have been living on the edge for a number of weeks waiting for this decision to be made known . ’ |
| 8 | The North Londoners have been loitering on the ‘ average ’ line for a few years now , and finally they 're staggering towards a state of ‘ alrightness ’ if the harmonious ‘ Doodle ’ is anything to go by . |
| 9 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares have been soaring on the hope that it will be able to raise its charges , and the company says it is keen to raise rates on all inter-city telephone calls including those from pay phones , but has not decided when to apply for permission from the Ministry to do so . |
| 10 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 11 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 12 | The Test and County Cricket Board have been working on a detailed financial plan aimed at hosting the competition for the fourth time in 1995 . |
| 13 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 14 | Members of an operational group at Statoil 's office in Forushagen have been working on a tender exercise with Lagos site office . |
| 15 | The Test and County Cricket Board have been working on a detailed financial plan aimed at hosting the competition on British soil in 1995 . |
| 16 | Well we 're looking at a particular condition of the lung that affects patients in intensive care ; it 's a disease a bit like pneumonia , it 's called the adult respiratory distress syndrome , and it 's a disease that we believe is associated with a lot of fluid in the lung , and a compatriot of mine , Dr Young , and Dr McQuillam have been working on a research that er has asked the question — ‘ if we reduce the amount of fluid in the lung , do these patients get better and get better quicker ’ . |
| 17 | Ashley Knibb and Terry Kelloway , have been working on the K2-8 mower conditioner for three years , since they left a main grassland equipment manufacturer to set up their own company . |
| 18 | The CEN Technical Committees 116 and 117 which have been working on the creation of European Standards for bituminous sheeting and single-ply membranes have recently been disbanded to be replaced by a new Technical Committee , CEN TC 254 , which will prepare European Standards on waterproofing sheeting used in building and civil engineering works . |
| 19 | Scientists at the Rowett Research Institute , near Aberdeen and the North of Scotland College of Agriculture have been working on the idea for more than 15 years . |
| 20 | And Dave Fowler , mechanical supervisor ; Billy Bunn , office manager ; John Flint , electrical supervisor and Hugh Chisholm , piping supervisor who have been working on the ENRON power station contract in Teesside . |
| 21 | Yes the districts have been working on the basis that I twelve is an additional provision to I five . |
| 22 | About a dozen mental patients going through rehabilitation in Aylesbury have been working on the boat which was taken on by the Dandelion Trust . |
| 23 | For the last month 30 police officers have been working on the case full time . |
| 24 | The two have been working on the wackier areas of the music biz for many years ‘ dabbling in whatever takes our fancy ’ as Jim puts it . |
| 25 | ‘ They have been working on the driving maul yet it 's not something they have been renowned for in the past . ’ |
| 26 | Colour specialists in Louisville have been working on the changes for three years , using information pulled in from dealers and regional sales people . |
| 27 | Royal reporters have been speculating on a new pregnancy for years , and members of the public have been no less nosy . |
| 28 | The vacancies have been appearing on the notice board . |
| 29 | All day since dawn we have been lying on a soft bed of bluebells in a wood beside a river . |
| 30 | The work we have been doing on the standardisation of company codes has started to pay dividends . |