Example sentences of "has [been] having a " in BNC.

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1 I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today .
2 Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them .
3 The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late .
4 ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately .
5 It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan .
6 For the moment , however , they seem more relevant to Europe , which has been having a spot of bother with its own system of exchange-rate target zones .
7 MELVYN BRAGG has been having a busy year .
8 And Tim has been having a go of his sinus plus conjunctivitis and something else he describes as angst and is being generally unsupportive .
9 Not everyone has been having a bad recession , and not everyone believes they must prune radically their investment and marketing budget .
10 ‘ He has been having a good rest , and by the time the middle of next month comes round when the big money tournaments start , he wo n't be knackered like some of the others .
11 Woman A ( all interviewees are anonymous ) is married and has been having a long-term affair with her parish priest .
12 While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time .
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