Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | SECRET service agents HAVE been snooping on Princess Diana and other members of the Royal Family , The People can reveal . |
| 2 | For the last few years , increasing numbers of southern owners have been capitalising on the relative strength of property in the South . |
| 3 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 4 | ‘ Then it must have been two other people that have been kissing on our front porch for the last nine months . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 7 | Hundreds of bus company workers have been voting on whether to accept a six per cent pay cut . |
| 8 | Whilst police have been investigating the savage crime … surgeons have been opearting on the savage injuries . |
| 9 | McGuigan says his wife , Sandra , and their four children have been living on a knife-edge since Eastwood 's libel action . |
| 10 | She is certainly not one of those who have been living on mung beans for as long as they can remember . |
| 11 | A whole family employed in the Midlands engineering industry have been living on supplementary benefit for two years : the grandparents in their mid-40s , two married sons with children and a teenager living at home . |
| 12 | It 's thought around 70 travellers have been living on the site for several weeks . |
| 13 | We have been living on the edge for a number of weeks waiting for this decision to be made known . ’ |
| 14 | His ex-wife and child and her second husband have been living on benefits for a year . |
| 15 | Members may well be aware of , of some of the actions that the A T C have been taking on this , and have been calling on that to actually look at that to list of alternate . |
| 16 | The North Londoners have been loitering on the ‘ average ’ line for a few years now , and finally they 're staggering towards a state of ‘ alrightness ’ if the harmonious ‘ Doodle ’ is anything to go by . |
| 17 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp shares have been soaring on the hope that it will be able to raise its charges , and the company says it is keen to raise rates on all inter-city telephone calls including those from pay phones , but has not decided when to apply for permission from the Ministry to do so . |
| 18 | The shares have been soaring on hopes that the rate rises would go through , and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp is likely to get some of the local rate increases it is seeking , Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Junichiro Koizumi told Reuters : the company wants to raise rates across the board , but the hikes are likely to be granted only for pay telephones , not for households or businesses . |
| 19 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I know exactly what they have been saying on TV . |
| 21 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 22 | Ashley Knibb and Terry Kelloway , have been working on the K2-8 mower conditioner for three years , since they left a main grassland equipment manufacturer to set up their own company . |
| 23 | Mr Ed Sweeney , Bifu 's deputy general secretary , said yesterday : ‘ Both banks have been working on these cuts for months and then choose today to axe jobs . ’ |
| 24 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 25 | The CEN Technical Committees 116 and 117 which have been working on the creation of European Standards for bituminous sheeting and single-ply membranes have recently been disbanded to be replaced by a new Technical Committee , CEN TC 254 , which will prepare European Standards on waterproofing sheeting used in building and civil engineering works . |
| 26 | Since giving up work to start my family , I have been working on two books — a novel and a cookery book related to my former job ( I was a home economist ) . |
| 27 | In Wales there is a nationally agreed pupil profile ; and many groups of schools or Local Authorities in England have been working on forms of profiling that would be objective and intelligible . |
| 28 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 29 | Scientists at the ARC 's institute for research on animal diseases , near Newbury , have been working on ways of reducing the risk of spreading diseases with slurry . |
| 30 | Scientists at the Rowett Research Institute , near Aberdeen and the North of Scotland College of Agriculture have been working on the idea for more than 15 years . |