Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past 150 years our politicians have been droning on about the need to train the British worker to the level of the German , oblivious to the somewhat obvious fact that we are not Germans so can not be expected to behave like them . |
| 2 | Oceans have been picking up soluble materials ( notably sodium chloride — salt ) from the land , for millions of years . |
| 3 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 4 | EURO Disney may be officially opening tomorrow , but tens of thousands of guests and Disney employees have been trying out the rides this week . |
| 5 | So Stephen Matthews and his colleagues at LLNL have been trying out their linear accelerators . |
| 6 | Recently I have been trying out Golfer cardigans . |
| 7 | From the start of this week the savings institutions have been handing over magnetic tapes to the Inland Revenue giving details of all interest-earning accounts , however small . |
| 8 | Most , speaking no English , have been handing over notes asking for political asylum . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , strong underlying trends have been pushing up costs in the United Kingdom as they have in other countries — the increasing sophistication of medical treatment , the survival of those who would have died in an earlier decade , new and expensive drugs , the growing awareness amongst the public of potential treatments , a reluctance to merely grin and bear pain and discomfort , and above all the ageing of the population . |
| 10 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 11 | The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits . |
| 12 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 13 | Actually , I have been slipping in quite a large amount of social anthropological theory while appearing to be discussing other things , though , at the grand scale level , I still have to justify my claim that a mechanical model of functionalist integration is to be preferred to an organic model . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have been flying out of Frankfurt for nearly 22 years , and I have no reason to believe security … is below standards . ’ |
| 16 | I 've watched Howard Kendall 's side recently , and the stuff they have been serving up has been bordering on the pathetic compared to earlier performances this season . |
| 17 | She will know , furthermore , of the furore brewing in every pub and office in the land , ever since Allan Lamb , who plays for England , bravely explained to my colleagues what Wasim and Whacker — sorry , Waqar — have been getting up to . |
| 18 | Even British farmers have been getting in on the act , attracted by the lure of cheap agricultural land at prices half those on our side of the Channel . |
| 19 | For weeks , for months even , members of the royal family and the royal court have been getting out , The exodus has been a little undignified . |
| 20 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 21 | The Chinese have been inching back towards economic reform . |
| 22 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 23 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 24 | The salaries of senior directors have been rising by between 20 per cent and 30 per cent over the last year and the trend shows little sign of slowing . |
| 25 | Since 1985 , when this team started its evangelising , they have been filling up ; congregations sometimes top 1,000 . |
| 26 | Liverpool have been holding on since November 9 for news of the left-sided 22-year-old while government officials check to see if there are any objections from the FA or Players ' Union . |
| 27 | The banks have been holding off up till now , because they did not want loan losses further to dent their earnings , already hit by the stockmarket fall , in the current financial year . |
| 28 | Vendors who have been holding off would have to sell because of their financial commitments . |
| 29 | If you have been holding off before making changes , now is the time for making some new beginnings . |
| 30 | Thousands of picnickers have been dining out in style at a giant fireworks concert . |