Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I don I should also say that following a very recent decision er in our submission that 's probably right , that my Lord as I say , I say to you with no joy , this really is desperate and er one can not have , in our submission , in the minds of the jury by inadmissible evidence , the suggestion that yes we have been harbouring this man two days before . |
| 2 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 3 | The period during which I have been writing this chapter has seen one of the worst staffing levels ever at the women 's flat . |
| 4 | I have been considering this matter for nearly two years , but my mind moves slowly ; I dislike publicity , and I had hoped that somebody else might lead the way . |
| 5 | I hope to visit relevant training programmes in the Philippines and Southern Africa , where possible participating as a trainee , in order to learn from the experience of those who have been undertaking this work for some years ; and to identify elements in the training processes which may be transferrable or adaptable to a UK situation . |
| 6 | They have become part of a stinging indictment of the way the South African police , blase about murder in a brutal society , have been handling this investigation . |
| 7 | If you have been thinking this way , practise having height in hand and using the airbrakes on the base leg . |
| 8 | And this is what TV viewers have been watching this year … |
| 9 | Firstly , I have been buying this magazine on and off since the first time that Elite ( by Firebird ) was reviewed . |
| 10 | Hundreds of people have been auditioning this week for the chance to be one of the faces in the crowd . |
| 11 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 12 | Here , here , I second that on H on page thirty one very important one , the county council welcomes the recognition by the joint working party of the importance of meaningful support services to the elected members and the recomme recommendation that the Secretary of State should review and clarify the powers of local authorities to meet costs of services provided to members to enable them to carry out their duties as councillors Now the erm members appointments , appointments of member services sub have been discussing this issue and I would like to point out to members that we are not claiming the amount allowable for the paying members allowances we erm we 're way below the limit that 's allowable by the government Now before anyone say well what have you done about it ? |
| 13 | We 're discussing this morning , and I 'll run briefly through the subjects that we have been discussing this morning for the er , new listeners . |
| 14 | But he was careful to appeal to the have-nots against the privileged and college-educated ‘ who have been selling this nation out — the bright young men who are born with silver spoons in their mouths . ’ |
| 15 | BANKS have been reeling this week with the news that customer complaints to the industry 's Ombudsman have risen by 60 per cent . |
| 16 | Well , I have been following this mailing list and have yet to post a message , but am sad to see that it is under these circumstances that I post my first … |
| 17 | Readers who have been following this series will remember that the latter pair were met in Part 5 ( March , 1992 issues ) . |
| 18 | XYZ Foods are well-known for their pioneering work in the field of slimming foods and they have been researching this pack for the last year . |
| 19 | But they too have been losing this battle . |
| 20 | Volunteers at the centre have been videoing this pair of kingfishers and so far it looks as though the experiment is a success . |
| 21 | We have been compiling this dossier ever since . ’ |
| 22 | Yet another victim , no doubt , of this Government 's crippling monetary policies , policies which have been driving this country to economic ruin for the past 13 years , and which can be alleviated only by the immediate election of a Labour government . |
| 23 | Recently several independent groups , including our own at Birkbeck College , have been investigating this model in further detail and have shown how it is possible to calculate explicit particle trajectories in various contexts , thus opening the possibility of understanding quantum phenomena in terms of the behaviour of individual particles . |
| 24 | I say that with some feeling because , in the three years , that I have been doing this job I have not heard so many well-qualified solicitors and barristers , people from the legal community and inquests and from pressure groups say that there are areas of deep concern . |
| 25 | Is the Minister aware that I have been asking this question , mostly of him , for the past 13 years and that that reply reflects how serious is youth unemployment in Scotland ? |
| 26 | ‘ I , myself , have been observing this jet as it gets ready for take-off and there is a definite smell of fuel . ’ |