Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an effort to make life more interesting for our younger members of staff and our graduate element , I have been inviting past students back to lecture on any aspect of their current work . |
| 2 | Rival warlords Mohamed Farrah Aidid and Ali Mahdi Mohamed have been looting Western emergency aid supplies sent to the area . |
| 3 | Although we have been seeking similar promotional competitions with northern theatres [ and we have n't given up yet ] we do not have the facilities to run a comprehensive programme of regional competitions . |
| 4 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 5 | The government-sponsored loan guarantees could be an alternative for some airlines which have been seeking foreign partners , the Times said . |
| 6 | In the main , we have been exploring sensory perception and physical reality . |
| 7 | They have been pestering other UN agencies , embassies and local traders , so far without success . |
| 8 | In recent years , telephone companies in Western Europe have been investing fabulous sums in replacing their old , analogue networks with digital ones . |
| 9 | Since March 20th , when the Bank of Japan raised its discount rate by a further 1% ( to 5.25% ) , the banks have been warning corporate customers that loans will now cost more than 7% . |
| 10 | POSC member companies — the oil industry 's open systems user organisation — and the group 's permanent staff have been evaluating potential SIP components since last December . |
| 11 | The jokes have been flying thick and fast since he became a permanent fixture on Hallowe'en . |
| 12 | ‘ Architects/Engineers RMJM have been flying high recently , rubbing shoulders with royalty , not once but twice within a week . |
| 13 | But more recently banks have been providing other forms of merger funding-'mezzanine debt' , which does not rate as highly in terms of claims against the company 's assets , but provides additional financial resources . |
| 14 | A team of qualified volunteers have been providing free short- term counselling — generally six to eight weekly sessions — with waiting times kept to a minimum . |
| 15 | OVER the last two weeks special couriers have been delivering mysterious brown paper packages to literary editors around London . |
| 16 | Lately however , many of its opponents have been getting used to the idea . |
| 17 | Some of them have been getting strong criticism lately . |
| 18 | A great many people have been getting good local press publicity for Medau during the summer . |
| 19 | Police have been getting tough with drivers over the new tyre safety legislation which came into force yesterday . |
| 20 | The Jarvis ' from Frimley Stables at Aston Upthorpe have been getting ready for their big day . |
| 21 | Things have been getting chaotic . |
| 22 | The Midlanders have been eating humble pie this season , though they deserve better fare . |
| 23 | A large number of smaller companies there have been receiving regional selective assistance since the middle 1980s . |
| 24 | This has meant that dead animals are left by the roadside for the council to collect , and the local slaughterhouses have been receiving sick animals as some farmers try to use it as a replacement for the knacker 's yard . |
| 25 | Sainsbury 's have been baking french bread for many years . |
| 26 | The Hereford teams have been training hard and deserve to do well . |
| 27 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 28 | I have been coaching black kids for more than 20 years . |
| 29 | And in Sweden , although in the 1930s unions and managements found common ground in their efforts to increase efficiency under capitalism and avoid state intervention in their relationship , since the 1970s the unions have been promoting new socio-political goals . |
| 30 | But already candidates have been holding informal sessions , enticing potential voters with great banquets of slaughtered sheep . |