Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 2 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 3 | Q I have been trying with little success to get hold of a list of camping barn and bunkhouse type accommodations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Soviet oilmen have been tapping into these supplies since the 1940s , when they created Oil Rocks , a gigantic production centre with 200 kilometres of causeway , built on concrete piles and landfill offshore . |
| 6 | I have given this Nayar material at some length because it exemplifies such a large number of the themes which I have been emphasizing throughout this book . |
| 7 | I feel as if I have been wandering through this forest for an eternity , and it is some days since I have found anything to eat . |
| 8 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 9 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 10 | The moral common to these stories is one I have been emphasising throughout this discussion . |
| 11 | URANUS and Neptune have been trundling through this part of your chart for some time which may explain all the false starts , not to mention the general instability . |
| 12 | If the course of action that I am suggesting and ind which is indeed consistent with the course of action I have been suggesting throughout this enquiry is to work , then I need I would suggest tomorrow is probably the absolute latest for me to get anything from you , and to give the Councils any opportunity whatsoever to make any reply to them . |
| 13 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 14 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |
| 15 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 16 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |
| 17 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
| 18 | In general , we have been writing about those melodies which are complete and have a well-defined entirety . |
| 19 | Divisional general manager David Howroyd commented : ‘ We are tremendously excited about this venture , which we have been considering for some time . |
| 20 | This notion is , of course , implicit in the construction of the sets of features of context which we have been considering in this chapter . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 24 | Ah 'm worn to a frazzle fighting off the toffs that have been swarming round this door since she was nine and three quarters . |
| 25 | But something about your comments worries me a great deal , and that 's the fact that many women tutors , you say , have been looking at this issue , but they have n't looked at the major part of the issue , which is from the students ' perspectives and the problem that goes on between students . |
| 26 | I have been thinking about that riddle . |
| 27 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 28 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 29 | Olympia picked out one of the gems when they released Salmanov 's Fourth Symphony ( 3/89 ) , and I have been listening with much pleasure to Mravinsky 's Melodiya LPs of the previous three symphonies by this intriguing composer . |
| 30 | In the last week , both Protestants and Republicans have been vying with each other to grab the headlines by claiming the 3,000th victim . |