Example sentences of "have been [verb] now " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm package and it has been developed now to quite , quite a high level of sophistication |
| 2 | That Ronchey 's move has been made now is due not only to the changed political climate , but also to the fact that the Minister is not a career politician like his recent , ineffective predecessors , but an independent , educated man ( he was a distinguished political journalist before being invited to join the government ) , who instead of getting tied up in his Ministry 's bureaucratic shibboleths , has collected an enlightened group of advisors around him , including the independent scholar Federico Zeri , who enjoys star status in Italy , and Mirella Baracco , the energetic founder of the private ginger group , Napoli 99 , which is managing to get long-closed monuments and churches in that city open to the public . |
| 3 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 4 | The waterfall is a part of the enormously extensive and complicated subterranean water system that has been traced now through this limestone mass if and which links up with the astonishingly deep fissures or gouffres that the speleologists have explored in the mountains to the east . |
| 5 | But Bosnich has been hailed now as an overnight success . |
| 6 | The revised European staff requirement document has been signed now by the four chiefs of air staff , this was done last month . |
| 7 | Governments , however , have on occasions intervened in foreign exchange markets to influence their respective rates of exchange , although a greater variety of currencies has been used now that exchange rates are no longer pegged exclusively to the dollar . |
| 8 | All uncertainty has been removed now . |
| 9 | The A M A clause which has been included now in many of the contracts and the tender documents was a clear demonstration of the work done between the front bench , Walworth Road and the local government trade unions . |
| 10 | This problem has been reduced now that schools are required to make some attempt at formulating longer-term school development plans , although it is accepted that they will act as flexible guidelines . |
| 11 | When , drawn by a magnetism she was unable to resist , she looked his way again , he was gone , the place where he 'd been standing now occupied by a stout lady in an unbecoming striped sundress . |
| 12 | He had known nothing of her plans , he did not know now what to expect , why this confining door should ever have been opened now , at this end of the day , after all permitted visits were over . |
| 13 | Campbell said the threat of legal action in Cheshire may have been averted now that the SSD had substantially re-drafted its contract . |
| 14 | Two years since publishing Succeeding in the 90s , the Society 's strategy plan for the decade , the economy has entered a deep recession , and more difficult and challenging times than could have been envisaged now face the whole profession . |
| 15 | The sad thing is that William 's anaemia could have been mended now . |
| 16 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 17 | Having been reduced now to travelling on foot , he could not make the return journey to Bristol in a day , and Sara too often found herself left lonely and uneasy in a cottage whose attractions were not increased by the coming of winter , or by neighbours who were ‘ a little too tattling and inquisitive ’ . |
| 18 | Once there had been kingcups , but none had been seen now for at least ten years . |
| 19 | She had been saving now almost forty years . |
| 20 | The decision had been made now , though . |
| 21 | Whilst understanding the reasons for change as part of AEAs evolution , he was unclear as to why the announcement had been made now but appreciated being given the information so explicitly and comprehensively . |
| 22 | The rain had been falling now for more than four hours . |
| 23 | All the terror had been spent now . |
| 24 | Any unease that Lucy had been feeling now vanished in the face of Charlie 's uncharacteristic embarrassment . |
| 25 | Because they 're a year younger than I am , two years younger and they 've been registered now for six , seven , eight , or nine years . |
| 26 | not freehold land freehold buildings we 've been depreciating now for many many years . |
| 27 | It would take too long to get the computer up and do it for you , but erm you can take that away with you if , if you like , that just makes the same points I 've been making now , but using a computer simulator . |
| 28 | JB : It seemed natural that two painters working in the same vicinity with the same painting outlooks should share a studio which we 've been doing now for , how long ? |
| 29 | Mrs clean er tables for you when we 've been doing now you have to do it yourselves . |
| 30 | Should we not first see how this or should we say , look let's go for it now because I mean you know , we 've been going now some years , what another year because |