Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already thousands of GPs have pledged their opposition to the White Paper — GPs all over the country have been meeting and issuing threats of mass resignations in protest at the plans . |
| 2 | Mum , that 's Carol , has been riding him out this week , while Dad , that 's Richard , the trainer and son , Tom have been masterminding and monitoring the build up . |
| 3 | Two hour timings have been slipping and the 21:14 arrival at Aberystwyth has over 15 minutes waiting at Talerddig for an up train to come through . |
| 4 | All of the top clubs have been faltering and we 're quite happy to creep up on them . |
| 5 | Since the 16th century people have been puzzling and researching into the origins of names . |
| 6 | Now I have been digressing and let me say quite clearly that I never knew the answer and I do not know it now , how the tremendously high level of morale was sustained , not just in the Pathfinders , but throughout the Command as a whole . |
| 7 | The all important game as far as we 're concerned in this area is taking place at Saltergate tonight , it 's Chesterfield against Lincoln City , er that 's the group in which er Mansfield Town have been competing and er well it 's pretty complicated in this competition too . |
| 8 | Chris and his wife have been collecting and breeding snakes for the past 16 years : there are 34 in the house at the moment , but during the breeding season there can be as many as 200 . |
| 9 | Detectives have been stopping and questioning drivers about the murder of a man who was found stabbed in his garden . |
| 10 | Men and women have been choosing and wearing black for donkey 's years . |
| 11 | The source , when they find it , is my swimfeeder which I have been casting and retrieving quite frequently since those initial handfuls . |
| 12 | For a long time we have been thinking and praying about a place of our own . |
| 13 | She notes that there is a difference between the stories people have been producing and traditional fiction . |
| 14 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments about the policies that we have been pursuing and economic prosperity in the Province , where we have seen advances in recent years . |
| 15 | It is this that we have been displaying and using in publications . |
| 16 | Both UK and European pig prices have been falling and recovery is some way off . |
| 17 | I hope that , whatever the outcome , Peter and his colleagues will have ceased to regard the IoT as an ‘ enemy ’ , and recognise the merit in what we have been saying and abandon the separate examination proposal . |
| 18 | Greenpeace 's scientific adviser , Dr Jeremy Leggett , was particularly scathing : " There is a chasm between what the scientists have been saying and what the politicians are prepared to do about it . |
| 19 | ‘ We maintain that we can not afford the rent being asked for by Mr Butters as it would amount to a 60 per cent increase on what we have been paying and we refuse to put the club in that sort of liability . |
| 20 | Although the last allegation is regarded with some scepticism by royal watchers , their speculation is heightened because the royal couple have barely been seen to exchange words or glances so far in the tour , even though they have been smiling and cheerful to those they have met . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ In the last three months they have been breeding and there are lots of them all over the place . |
| 24 | Later you are going to have an opportunity to do some writing similar to the pieces you have heard , however , if you have been fidgeting and not concentrating , you wo n't know what to do big boys . |
| 25 | This captures the screen on which you have been working and brings up the Pizazz Plus Main Menu . |
| 26 | For some time , I have been kneading and reshaping a deeply discomforting , if homely adage : If you 're not successful in this world you wo n't be successful in the next . |
| 27 | She is referring to something else , she told herself , I have been dreaming and have not followed the conversation . |
| 28 | It is about a principle for which people have been fighting and dying for centuries — the indisputable right to self-determination . |
| 29 | It is the same battle , in a new form , which dates centuries back , and which finds support from peoples all over the ‘ Third World ’ who have been fighting and dying for too long for something which is so clearly their birthright . |
| 30 | Well you pair have been fighting and all have you ? |