Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] in this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | March 17th is my traditional early chiffchaff date and although a journey south to Poole and a short time near possible sites on that day , yielded no hearing of the bird , one has been singing in this garden today . |
2 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman will be aware that since its inception the SDA has been investing in this way throughout Scotland and in companies . |
3 | In his search he was aided by a number of new roads which the Mexican government has been building in this area to open up new regions to cultivation . |
4 | He has been working in this vein since the late Sixties , when only hippies , greens and cranks thought it was important . |
5 | It is crucial to identify the source of the methane in order to be able to devise appropriate remedies , and FPG has been working in this area for some time . |
6 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
7 | trade unionism has been failing in this country for the last fourteen years . |
8 | It 's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening . |
9 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
10 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
11 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
12 | We 've been selling in this area fairly consistently across estate agents |
13 | Although the survey was carried out in 1987 , and events in education have moved on with amazing rapidity since then , many of the conclusions that can be drawn from the interviews seem to have retained their relevance , particularly in the context of the issue I have been exploring in this chapter . |
14 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |
15 | This notion is , of course , implicit in the construction of the sets of features of context which we have been considering in this chapter . |
16 | We can now state the central result of applying the rational expectations hypothesis to the aggregate demand — aggregate supply model that we have been using in this chapter . |
17 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
18 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
19 | What should you do about old hurts , the catalogues of personal dramas we have been unearthing in this chapter ? |
20 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
21 | For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself . |
22 | The researchers have been working in this area and have produced a new kind of geometric structure which is particularly appropriate to use in statistical theory . |
23 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
24 | I have been sitting in this armchair for about an hour . |
25 | If inflation is too much money pursuing too few goods , it does not follow that we must — as we have been doing in this country — reduce the supply of money all the time and thus have the disastrous consequences for industry that have occurred . |
26 | It is this assumption which I have been questioning in this paper . |