Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A growing queue of upper-crust drinkers have been seeking the heady relief at the ‘ gentlemen 's pharmacy ’ , D R Harris & Co , of St James 's in London — chemist to the Queen Mother . |
| 2 | Over the last year many people around the diocese have been exploring the Catholic faith , with a view to becoming Catholics themselves . |
| 3 | We have been reversing the Labour Party 's neglect of the prison service in the 1970s . |
| 4 | Since October 1989 teachers have been delivering the first stages of a new national curriculum ; and in the early summer they will start testing ( sorry , assessing ) all seven-year-olds on the three core disciplines : mathematics , English and science . |
| 5 | Being in the habit of eating a generous quantity of food — the more you have been eating the greater the initial weight loss impact when you switch to a slimming diet . |
| 6 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 7 | THE FRIENDS of John McCarthy have been reminding the Foreign Office that the British Government is the only government without a single success in efforts to achieve the release of any of its hostages . |
| 8 | Japanese researchers have been subjecting the real seven-storey building to ‘ pseudodynamic testing ’ . |
| 9 | Oliver Sacks is hardly putting himself out on a limb when he affirms that the brain is not like a computer : neuroscientists have been telling the Artificial Intelligence buffs that for years . |
| 10 | Three thousand members of the Sealed Knot have been re-staging the civil war battle in which the city managed to hold off the royalist seige for twenty six days . |
| 11 | In all the time I have been writing the bass analysis column , I can not remember receiving any requests for the very influential playing of John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin , and now I get two in the same month . |
| 12 | Solid fuel is the heating fuel we have been using the longest . |
| 13 | ‘ We have customers who have been using the same set for more than 20 years , ’ he says . |
| 14 | Er this is quite commonly accepted as er in use in many places and I think my our colleagues on the other side of the table have been using the same basic modelling methodology . |
| 15 | Coltart and Everett have been learning the hard way that it hardly matters if you can sometimes drive the ball 50 yards father than anyone else if the statistics show that some of your opponents single-putt an average of 24 greens per tournament . |
| 16 | Places like Welwyn Garden City and Crawley have been experiencing the relentless movement of these original cohorts of migrants up the ‘ age pyramid ’ . |
| 17 | Yet he 's found that several other farmers have been experiencing the fecund year . |
| 18 | And this has been put in place alongside our position on the Gulf to complete our policy on the Middle East where we were condemning the hypocrisy of the western nations who have been supplying the Third World with arms and then going in there , fighting er just to maintain access to the oil . |
| 19 | Some of the agencies have been recommending the complete party and for some people this is ideal , in that they then do not have to worry . |
| 20 | Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service . |
| 21 | Odilo and I have been airing the new apartment until it is heavy with her smell . |
| 22 | Some organisations already implement voluntary eco-audits , and some have been piloting the new British Standard 7750 . |
| 23 | While many collectors are turning over every hedge and collective barn they can find within the Russian Republic and its former constituents and satellites for hidden treasures , a small and dedicated band have been scouring the Asia-Pacific region for many decades looking for Japanese material . |
| 24 | The Institute 's Education & Training Directorate and the General Practitioner Board have been watching the falling numbers of students training in small firms with deep concern and both have set up working parties to look at the problems . |
| 25 | During the past week I have been watching the Germanic guru , Ralf Dahrendorf , on the box , telling us Britishers just where we are going wrong . |
| 26 | Clearly , while an increasing proportion of the population have been buying their houses , working-class people have been buying the cheapest housing on the market . |
| 27 | ‘ We have been monitoring the downward trend over the last 10 years , and our impression is that the decline is beginning to bottom out : there may have been 5m fewer loans last year , but the drop was 15m in 1991–92 . |
| 28 | He was especially good at the end , when the aliens ( who have been monitoring the whole joke , helping Spunk out at awkward moments ) beam him back to BC . |
| 29 | But shares have been reflecting the new-found confidence for some time . |
| 30 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |