Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 2 | Axil , which introduced other Sparc compatibles earlier on , says in has been shipping hundreds of units a month and is on the verge of moving to a thousand . |
| 3 | On top of that Hamilton has been overseeing three and a half hours of live television in a time-slot littered with failed ventures . |
| 4 | One well at Cusiana has been producing 10,000 b/d on a long-term test and the development phase is about to begin . |
| 5 | This may not seem to be a very daunting task , but when a man who has been flying four engine jet transports all over the world is suddenly confronted with a young pilot who has just written-off the landing gear of a light aircraft while trying to land in a cross wind , the true qualities of the new inspector are under test . |
| 6 | A farmer has been using four oxen to plough a field in what 's believed to be the first public demonstration of the skill in almost twenty-five years . |
| 7 | A flotilla of surfers and canoes has been riding one of the year 's biggest Severn Bores . |
| 8 | A government supermarket in New Delhi has been selling 10 solar cookers every day for the past few months for about £20 each . |
| 9 | Thailand 's Professor Pilai Poonswad , who for 10 years has been studying four species of forest hornbills , pointed out that the birds nest in large Dipterocarps and that their taste in trees was something they shared with loggers . |
| 10 | For two years now , the first Astra has been broadcasting 16 channels of TV programmes , including Rupert Murdoch 's Sky Channels , right across Europe . |
| 11 | The NCT Houseswap Register has been going 15 years now and raises over £500 annually . |
| 12 | Even the S MP syllabus , which is probably quite well known , most schools in Sussex deal a little bit with the S MP New Maths Syllabus , which has been going twenty thirty years now , but even that was originally written for O-level , and then a version for C S E was introduced . |
| 13 | Throughout the meeting he has been observing one student , possibly in his thirties , who sits in a long wheelchair with his legs straight , parallel with the floor . |
| 14 | In spite of having more than twice the capacity of the old Grassmarket theatre it has been recording 85 per cent audience capacity since opening last year . |
| 15 | Thames Water has been losing seventeen percent of its supplies from leaks , but are now confident they can reduce that figure dramatically . |
| 16 | STEVE DAVIS has been practising six hours a day during the build-up to the Embassy World championship , such is his determination to win his seventh title . |
| 17 | erm The Schools Council , erm as you may remember , has been putting millions of pounds into educational research over the last dozen years , and all kinds of new curriculum ideas and patterns of organisation have emerged . |
| 18 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 19 | World War 1 veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 20 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 21 | One of the founding fathers of independent television has been celebrating sixty years in broadcasting . |
| 22 | Alan Stockton , of the University of Hawaii , has been investigating three quasars with redshifts between 0.07 and 0.26 , each of which has a very close companion galaxy ( Astrophysical Journal , vol 257 , p 33 ) . |
| 23 | Fleet Street , which has been spending millions for years trying get the formula right , holds the opposite point of view . |
| 24 | One of the few senior front-benchers with experience of government , he has been keeping one eye on the national campaign , chairing almost all the party 's London campaign press conferences , and another on his marginal Copeland constituency , travelling by hired plane to Cumbria every weekend . |
| 25 | You allus had a laugh , even if you 'd been a-cryin' two minutes afore that . |
| 26 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 27 | He 'd been smoking 50 a day for 40 years . |
| 28 | She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through . |
| 29 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 30 | He 'd been working one of the axle springs free on an old Cortina when the jack had given way . |