Example sentences of "has been [v-ing] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The double volume , Ogwen & Carneddau , will hopefully be in the shops by Easter ; Llanberis , at the time of writing , has much of the text complete , thanks to Iwan Arfon Jones , and Paul Williams has been rounding up all the loose ends . |
| 2 | Over the years industrial capitalist society has been casting off many of the more obvious outward signs of inner distress . |
| 3 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 4 | They have to take account not only of local white vested interests , but , more importantly , of foreign and multinational capital which controls a substantial proportion of its industries , though the government has been buying out some foreign , especially South African , firms . |
| 5 | ‘ Quite frankly , Elinor- and in confidence — STG has been handling too many criminal cases for my liking . |
| 6 | The old debt has been nagging away these last 16 years , and Moore made a point last week of reminding Bobby Robson of the hostile reception England can expect on Wednesday . |
| 7 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ It has been raining heavily all day and we had no option but to abandon the meeting . ’ |
| 8 | Over on the brown stuff , Andy Barker has been seeking out those remaining gems . |
| 9 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been sending out some rather confusing messages of late with regard to its position over the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment — DCE — initiative , which is more or less completely opposite to its own Open Network Computing , ONC environment . |
| 10 | The report said for over 10 years , IBM has been booking immediately all the revenues from some long-term computer leases , getting a residual value guarantee from Merrill Lynch & Co to bring the total of the lease payments plus the residual value up to the 90% of the sale price that accountants regard as prudent for a sales-type lease . |
| 11 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 12 | It is precisely to deal with those problems that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has been having so many discussions over the past year . |
| 13 | Sharpe discovered that before his long absences through injury and illness ; Giggs has been finding out this year . |
| 14 | Maybe it has been charging too little for the uncertainties involved , but that is another matter . |
| 15 | Developed from the Laser 28 , the RF290 has been notching up some impressive results , winning at least three class 1sts in the Hamble Winter Series . |
| 16 | Topix Abteilungsrechner & Workstations magazine reports that an announcement regarding the B20 , on which Siemens Nixdorf has been pinning so many hopes , was planned originally for the autumn . |