Example sentences of "have already be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This biggest sister to the popular J/24 has already been proving her pedigree on race courses in Britain and the States |
| 2 | The motor industry has already been lobbying the Treasury to widen the fuel tax gap further in favour of diesel , partly in the interests of reducing pollution . |
| 3 | This scheme has already been operating in some London boroughs but it has prompted criticism from anti-poll tax campaigners who have branded the technique as ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 4 | This scheme has already been operating in some London boroughs but it has prompted criticism from anti-poll tax campaigners who have branded the technique as ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 5 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 6 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 7 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 8 | The present evidence therefore suggests that the universe will probably expand forever , but all we can really be sure of is that even if the universe is going to recollapse , it wo n't do so for at least another ten thousand million years , since it has already been expanding for at least that long . |
| 9 | Astra has already been talking to officials of the Commons about its planned service , based on the American C-Span cable network , which performs a similar function . |
| 10 | This is the moment when bad theology enters , not — notice this carefully — as a reason for doubt but as a rationale for the doubting which has already been going on . |
| 11 | Now Cronenberg has finally realised his long-cherished project of making a movie out of The Naked Lunch ( London cinemas from 24 April ) — but he has already been filming William Burroughs for years . |
| 12 | The three islands councils , Highland Region and Highlands and Islands Enterprise , plus a representative of the district councils and possibly the health boards , will meet to thrash out a list of priorities , as has already been happening under Objective 5b . |
| 13 | At almost a year old , Piment would have already been experimenting with solid food for a few months , though probably more in play than serious eating . |
| 14 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 15 | Before the move he had already been planting exotics in the sheltered garden with a slope to the south-west ; an ideal situation for the rare trees he collected over the next twenty years . |
| 16 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 17 | Now that he was clear of the hawthorn scent of the hedge and the reek of cattle dung , he became fully aware of what had already been drifting into his nostrils while he was lying among the thorn . |
| 18 | Most of the seven founder members had already been serving in France . |
| 19 | At this moment , the driver who had already been braking to come into the station , applied his brakes even more sharply and blasted out a warning on his whistle . |
| 20 | Patients randomised to the tablet groups were advised to continue their pre-trial diets — unless they had already been taking a high fibre diet — in which case they were encouraged to reduce their fibre intake during the trial . |
| 21 | Erm cos I think a lot of the , I mean a lot of land redistribution had already been taking place in since about the since about January of nineteen forty six , so I think the May the fourth directive is just erm an official , well a secret official acceptance of this . |
| 22 | As soon as she entered the room she knew that Clare had already been telling tales ; or at least complaining to her colleagues . |
| 23 | So Trumbull started moving the camera in and out , and stopped the lens down to a tiny aperture for maximum depth of field ( he had already been experimenting with zoom lenses for the cockpit readouts in other sequences ) . |
| 24 | Although the Hervert Laming letter of 13 December 1992 created its own furore about what should be written down , senior managers had already been debating for six months about whether care managers should bluff users and relatives about the money available for them . |
| 25 | Before the coup attempt , commentators had already been expressing the fear that economic decline could exacerbate the conflict inherent within the country 's heterogeneous racial structure . |
| 26 | During the sixteenth century the Portuguese had already been profiting from the gold being produced in West Africa and Japan . |
| 27 | Brook , small , breezy and soft-spoken had already been padding among the assembly , shaking hands with a grip curiously flabby for one whose theatrical identity is so startlingly defined . |
| 28 | Jane carried the tray across to the police officers with what looked to the sergeant like absurd concentration and Dexter wondered uncharitably whether she had already been drinking . |
| 29 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 30 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |