Example sentences of "has been [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | March 17th is my traditional early chiffchaff date and although a journey south to Poole and a short time near possible sites on that day , yielded no hearing of the bird , one has been singing in this garden today . |
| 2 | The Administration Centre has been expanding over this first year . |
| 3 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman will be aware that since its inception the SDA has been investing in this way throughout Scotland and in companies . |
| 4 | In his search he was aided by a number of new roads which the Mexican government has been building in this area to open up new regions to cultivation . |
| 5 | In fact the whole of SE Asia has been booming over this period . |
| 6 | A particularly influential way of studying them was outlined by Ninian Smart , one of the first members of the Shap Working Party which has been campaigning for this approach since the early 1970s : religions each have at least six dimensions : doctrinal , mythological , ethical , ritual , experiential and social . |
| 7 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 8 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 9 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 10 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 11 | It is crucial to identify the source of the methane in order to be able to devise appropriate remedies , and FPG has been working in this area for some time . |
| 12 | He has been working in this vein since the late Sixties , when only hippies , greens and cranks thought it was important . |
| 13 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 14 | trade unionism has been failing in this country for the last fourteen years . |
| 15 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 16 | Spurs chief executive Terry Venables said : ‘ I 'm thrilled for Gordon because he has been suffering with this ‘ cheat ’ slur hanging over him . |
| 17 | ‘ The only difference is that in Rome everybody has been talking about this game for three months . |
| 18 | Somebody has been interfering with this case internally . ’ |
| 19 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |