Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This afternoon anxious council chiefs have been meeting MMI representatives to assess the implications of MMI freezing its business . |
| 2 | As the Autumn fox hunting season gets underway , animal rights protestors have been holding one of the biggest demonstrations seen in the region . |
| 3 | In the last 18 months alone Megatech has shipped in excess of 4500 copies of TAS , and since the beginning of this year sales have been averaging 400 units a month . |
| 4 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 5 | We have been addressing two audiences throughout the debate — the outside audience , whom the Opposition want to convince that this is a shock horror experience , and the audience in the House . |
| 6 | However , it appears that 2 star petrol is now unavailable in our area , so we have been using 4 star in its place . |
| 7 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 8 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |
| 9 | In almost every decade of this century , and before , librarians have been congratulating one another at having shaken off the custodial image and become active disseminators and publicists . |
| 10 | An even longer contract is at Grampian TV in Aberdeen , where we have been operating 365 days a year , for the past 24 years . |
| 11 | Canoeists and surfers have been riding one of the biggest Severn Bores that will be seen this year . |
| 12 | A company spokeswoman said : ‘ We have been selling 100 bottles a day . |
| 13 | In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops . |
| 14 | The legislative purpose of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 , said Lord Scarman , was ‘ to sweep away not only the structure of industrial relations created by the Industrial Relations Act 1971 , which it was passed to repeal , but also the restraints of judicial review which the courts have been fashioning one way or another since the enactment of the Trade Disputes Act 1906 … |
| 15 | Is he also aware that those industries have been losing 2,000 jobs per month in addition to the 60,000 jobs already lost and the 7 per cent . |
| 16 | By Claire 's watch they have been waiting eleven minutes . |
| 17 | ‘ We have been putting 150 years of empirical behaviour onto one program so there have been inevitable delays , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years . |
| 19 | But I have digested his paper and , well loaded with statistics , have been making one or two inquiries of my own . |
| 20 | ‘ I have been doing one acquisition a month and I expect we will still do one acquisition a month , ’ Sadler said . |
| 21 | Now C twenty eight that some people who I 've noticed have been talking one minute . |
| 22 | Scientists have been studying hundreds of asthma sufferers to see if there 's a family link . |