Example sentences of "have [adv] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Han Chinese have since been pouring in , lured by promises of jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities . |
| 2 | Far-sighted high achievers have slowly been transferring their energy from employment to other activities , just to meet this moment . |
| 3 | ‘ These deals have slowly been finding out that they just ca n't get financing , ’ said William Lefebvre , a market analyst with New York 's Advest group . |
| 4 | ENGINEERS at Philips in Britain have secretly been working on a flat screen television for several years , while hotly denying the fact . |
| 5 | Knuckle down to any jobs you 've been promising all and sundry to do , but have secretly been avoiding like the plague . |
| 6 | I have latterly been speaking only of causal circumstances , and not causes . |
| 7 | But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win . |
| 8 | Thus , for all the vast growth in the range of government activities — which has meant that civil servants have effectively been making major business decisions on the allocation of resources — the Treasury made little attempt to devise fundamentally new and appropriate methods of training and re-training [ Fulton Report , 1968 ; Chapman and Greenaway , 1980 ] . |
| 9 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 10 | Club sailors in the one-design classes have long been proving to one another just who 's best . |
| 11 | The folios and quartos laboured on so industriously by forgotten clerics and divines , the erudite editions of minor classical writers , have long been gathering dust in countless book shops . |
| 12 | The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess . |
| 13 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 14 | Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis . |
| 15 | ‘ Then , of course , the cataclysmic events of of 1989 and the recommendations of the Youth Commission , which attributed the debacle partly to the loss of credibility in the media , have all been determining factors . |
| 16 | Up to this point the children have all been acting as the giant . |
| 17 | I 've lost 4ins ( 10cm ) all over and my friends can not believe it — they have all been buying your book ! |
| 18 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 19 | For good measure , and , presumably in case anybody thinks he is indulging in the negative campaigning we have all been hearing so much about , he praises the Lib Dems as offering a ‘ more egalitarian , democratic and ecologically responsible [ manifesto ] than Labour 's ’ . |
| 20 | The ‘ just rollered ’ look is being worn by some of the world 's most beautiful women — top model Linda Evangelista , Madonna and Kylie have all been sporting those unmistakable barrel curls . |
| 21 | He has got that little bit of alertness and determination that the likes of Rideout , Cottee and Johnston have all been lacking . |
| 22 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 23 | So that in a sense we have all been clipping , fleaing , and paring . |
| 24 | Determination , aggression and commitment have all been missing from their recent displays , but a lack of concentration denied them their first much-needed double of the season . |
| 25 | It is a responsibility that has resulted in the revival of the importance of the data processing department — a shift not lost on Microsoft Corp , Lotus Development Corp and Borland International Inc which have all been attempting to play down their ‘ shrink wrapped ’ status with corporate licensing deals and the like . |
| 26 | We know that Roz 's new book on ‘ tensions ’ , which you have all been waiting for , is about to be published and she is also working on another booklet of machine knitting trims . |
| 27 | Along with many others they have all been doing their bit for our Decade of Evangelisation . |
| 28 | That is why we have all been doing it , von Weizsacker , Theo Kordt in London , his brother Erich in Berlin , Canaris , Carl Burckhardt , Dahlerus , Wenner-Gren . |
| 29 | ‘ I hope you have all been practising during the holiday , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , as the girls all lined up with their brooms hovering next to them and the cats perched on the back — that is to say , most of the cats were perched on the back . |
| 30 | Guest houses , inns , farmhouses and B&Bs have all been improving in the same way as the rest of the industry , so that the best of them compare in their own category with say , AA red star hotels . |