Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see you 've been having more fun and games ! ’ |
| 2 | Latterly , Lima has been receiving more migrants from the poorest and remotest departments . |
| 3 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 4 | The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields . |
| 5 | Hussey has been doing more than both driving and reading the map . |
| 6 | One project that Warnke has had in mind since he came to Hamburg in 1982 , has been finding more space for the art history department , and to this end he has had his eye on the former Warburg house with its famous oval reading room , conceived by Aby Warburg and opened to readers in 1926 , one year after his death . |
| 7 | VAUXHALL has been giving more details of changes and additions to its range for the sales year . |
| 8 | One big star , Billy Ray Cyrus , was invented by the marketing men last year and has been playing more or less bubblegum pop . |
| 9 | One evening , after he 'd been answering more questions from Coombs and Beeding , Quigley came into my room when I was doing my homework . |
| 10 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 11 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 12 | If Lewis had been learning more than he knew before about humility , Williams had been learning more than he knew before about medieval literature . |
| 13 | If Lewis had been learning more than he knew before about humility , Williams had been learning more than he knew before about medieval literature . |
| 14 | He had not been eating properly and had been drinking more than usual . |
| 15 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 16 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 17 | At the end of September 143 people had been waiting more than a year . |
| 18 | If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit . |
| 19 | He had been paying more attention than she thought . |
| 20 | You 've been wasting more . |
| 21 | It sounds as though you 've been using more conditioner than your hair needs . |
| 22 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 23 | I 've been doing more thinking about what we should do in future . |
| 24 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 25 | Yes , I 've heard that you 've been doing more than sending it out , you 've actually been taking it personally have n't you ? |
| 26 | But quiz shows have been getting more viewers than Eldorado . |
| 27 | Figures presented in the conference report show that some states have been receiving more than their fair share of government resources for health care taking into account population . |
| 28 | Since the 1950s parents have been accumulating more ( and always better ) consumer goods , domestic appliances , automobiles and luxuries . |
| 29 | Floods have been causing more problems for motorists . |
| 30 | So Iraq has now formally asked the Turks to shorten the cut-off period but the Turks reply that they have been releasing more water down the river and the Iraquis should have been able to build up stocks . |