Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was looking at the ground , he seemed to be concentrating ; he might 've been trying to remember something . |
| 2 | who was sitting in the audience who is a nurse and er would 've known and she would 've been trying to get in and say this is not true . |
| 3 | We would 've been revising had we not been here . |
| 4 | Since 1978 an organisation called the Liberal Association for the Movement of People ( LAMP ) has been striving to address these problems . |
| 5 | Originally from California , Toni has been striving to achieve musical recognition for the past ten years , playing in LA bands and doing backing vocals for Berlin . |
| 6 | Decisive victory for either side : that is what Turkish policy , in so far as it has any power , has been striving to prevent . |
| 7 | Eager to lessen its dependence on the highly regulated and increasingly competitive British telecoms market , BT has been struggling to turn itself into a ‘ one-stop-shop ’ provider of global telecoms services for multinationals . |
| 8 | Nelson has been struggling to implement this grand vision ever since but , in the course of his work , he established the hypertext model as a means of getting around a huge database . |
| 9 | The Headwaters Forest , in the north of the state , is owned by Pacific Lumber , a subsidiary of the Maxxam Corporation , which has been struggling to pay off nearly $70 million worth of borrowing from Columbia Savings and Loan . |
| 10 | BET has been struggling to pay off debts after a period of over-expansion combined with the recession to hit profits . |
| 11 | In this sense , social work has been struggling to free itself from the same trap as much of British industry . |
| 12 | Unlike other UK retailers in the Canadian market — Boots came out last year and Marks & Spencer has been struggling to break even — WH Smith has shown profits growth . |
| 13 | That is , he has been struggling to extract and create ‘ goodness ’ from his earthly life and to find some way to preserve it . |
| 14 | The 34-year-old still managed to win 21-17 , 21-9 against Cooke , who has been struggling to find his best form all season . |
| 15 | He has been struggling to find form all season , and maybe Terry Kingston would have been a better bet . |
| 16 | It was the first public appearance for Caroline , who has been learning to belly dance for about eight months . |
| 17 | Too often children have been brought to the library for library tours and library lessons , where the main content has been learning to use the catalogue , the classification etc — in short the organization of the library . |
| 18 | So this is what has kept him employed through these ‘ misspent ’ years : he has been learning to see , and to live . |
| 19 | ‘ Everyone from infants to pensioners has been learning to swim . |
| 20 | Sources in the US say Data General will this week take the wrapping off the eight-way AViiON multi-processors it has been dropping hints about for some time ( UX No 389 ) . |
| 21 | Moreover , though the majors may all be global in reach , only some , like BOC , has been investing to create global interdependence for some of the key functions of the business . |
| 22 | Exhausted by the glare of fame that has been his lot since NME elevated him to cult status TDFC ( as we like to call him , being mates and all that ) has been trying to relax by helping his bandmate CARL build a replica of London out of matchsticks in his Manchester bedroom . |
| 23 | Each has been trying to outbid the rest in an attempt to gain market share and so exploit economies of scale . |
| 24 | Mr Aznar has been trying to exploit their success by taking time out of his campaign to visit Jacques Chirac ( and , for some reason , John Major ) . |
| 25 | ‘ For 20 years ’ , said Mr Beckman , ‘ the European Community has been trying to agree on air fares . |
| 26 | Noise from vehicles is something the Government has been trying to tackle for more than 20 years . |
| 27 | The Giuliani campaign — advised by Roger Ailes , the media guru who turned the Bush campaign around — has been trying to persuade Jewish voters that Mr Dinkins is a clone of Jesse Jackson and no friend of Israel . |
| 28 | The Hong Kong Government has been trying to persuade Britain to make the package as wide as possible . |
| 29 | One of the main themes of lesbian feminism of the last years has been trying to create a forum in which women can talk about sex , feel happy about sex , and consume sexually explicit material without guilt . ’ |
| 30 | All he has been trying to do is to trying to ensure that there 's been even-handed play here on all the stadium sites and it 's disgraceful that his name has been dragged into this ! |