Example sentences of "and have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Zimbabwe supports controlled culling of its large elephant population and has been looking for legal ways to cover the costs . |
| 32 | I know that Chris Harris is anxious to discuss the matter , and has been exploring various angles with the Scottish Officer and the Commission . |
| 33 | One big star , Billy Ray Cyrus , was invented by the marketing men last year and has been playing more or less bubblegum pop . |
| 34 | Apart from performing the worst of all US football teams in 1990 , the team has amassed losses of $20m since Kiam took over and has been playing to 70 per cent capacity despite some improvement this season . |
| 35 | Towards the end of 1986 an AEC was launched and has been running ever since . |
| 36 | To save money it is moving out of London to Newport in South Wales and has been running roadshows to drum up business from industry . |
| 37 | Montague ran , and has been running ever since . |
| 38 | ‘ She paid her own ticket from Australia for the interview , and has been running a much-respected heavy metal magazine there , ’ said Dave . |
| 39 | The tank is 60″ × 24″ × 18″ and has been running for twelve weeks . |
| 40 | The tank has an undergravel filter and a internal filter and has been running problem-free for about four months . |
| 41 | Light from some distant objects was emitted before the sun first shone , and has been making its way to mankind 's eyes throughout the history of the earth . |
| 42 | The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 43 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 44 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 45 | Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks . |
| 46 | The Arab nations , it is clear , are overwhelmingly nationalist , not socialist , in their orientation , and the ideology which largely prevails , and has been increasing its influence among intellectuals and students as well as in other sections of the population , is that of Islam . |
| 47 | The Headland Technology unit , which manufactures personal computer building block chip sets and has been suffering badly of late , will be reabsorbed into the parent company . |
| 48 | IDG World Expo is trying to pull together a Unix Fair ‘ 93/Tokyo for December 8 to 10 at the Pacifico Yokohama and has been touting for prospects for the show at UniForum . |
| 49 | Tony Quinn is an expert in holistic therapy and has been studying and working in the field for years . |
| 50 | If I take one example as more updated version of Hammett and Chandler , one of the most successful writers I think in financial terms in America since the Second World War has been a man called Kenneth Miller , who writes under the name of Ross Macdonald , and has been turning out for , oh , the best part of thirty years now , novels about a Californian private eye called Lou Archer . |
| 51 | He hung his medal in the shop , decided it would be nice to have a few more , and has been pounding out the miles since . |
| 52 | He 's also a bit of a technophobe and has been having problems getting on the list . |
| 53 | Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest . |
| 54 | McEvoy , 39 , is back on the amateur circuit after being chosen as England captain , and has been having lessons for the first time ‘ to stimulate my game . ’ |
| 55 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy is never at a loss for something to say , and has been sounding off about some of the current bees in his bonnet . |
| 56 | Microsoft wants Sun to pay a licence for WABI , specifically $50 a copy , and has been saying so to Sun since at least December . |
| 57 | Microsoft wants Sun to pay a licence for WABI , specifically $50 a copy , and has been saying so to Sun since at least December . |
| 58 | Can I also say really I agree with Martin when he said erm , and has been saying for at least six months that surely we have more important things to , to talk about than , than this and I 'm sorry for Martin that he had to erm , give in really and put this I was the movement of the amendment in January ninety two erm , which confirmed that the rights of tenants and old occupiers of land in county council ownership to er allow or stop fox hunting over land in their care . |
| 59 | VMark Software Inc , Framingham , Massachusetts , has wasted no time in getting its Pick-derived uniVerse ‘ postrelational database management system ’ up under Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and has been demonstrating it in Atlanta . |
| 60 | It has begun shipping what it claims is the first software engineering tool designed to regenerate AS/400 applications to run on Unix-based workstations quickly and easily , and has been demonstrating the AS/SET WDK-U product in Anaheim , California at the semiannual conference of Common , the IBM mid-range users group . |