Example sentences of "[det] has been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each has been trying to outbid the rest in an attempt to gain market share and so exploit economies of scale . |
| 2 | So far , an answer on that has been lacking from him and other Ministers . |
| 3 | There has been one very disturbing factor in keeping this particular type of fish , and that has been discovering the incredible cruelty that is sometimes used in order to increase the sale of them . |
| 4 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 5 | its been , that has been blistering some time that , think its |
| 6 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 7 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 8 | There is no doubt that that has been happening in the country at large and that they have now been rumbled . |
| 9 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
| 10 | And Ruth , then quietly returns to Naomi there at first light , excitedly telling her of all that has been happening . |
| 11 | This would require a great deal of organisation to ensure compatibility of all the units involved , but ICAO did a similar thing many years ago with ILS air and ground equipment and that has been working successfully now for over thirty-five years . |
| 12 | I believe generally good teams are built around a strong defence and this has been lacking all season . |
| 13 | ‘ This has been hanging over us for too long . |
| 14 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 15 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 16 | If this has been leaking for some time then the transfer box is probably low on oil . |
| 17 | This has been happening to me , just the same . |
| 18 | An example of this has been evolving at IBM for many years with the AS/400 . |
| 19 | In these circumstances we are interested in how the press reports these crimes and how this has been changing . |
| 20 | This has been changing , as more work is done on the Athenian Council ( Boule ) of 500 members , lists of whom have been turning up since the Americans began to excavate the agora in the 1930s . |
| 21 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 22 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 23 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 24 | ‘ How long did they say this has been going on ? ’ |
| 25 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 26 | And do you think , if this has been going on all the years it must have , he 's going to stop now ? |
| 27 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 29 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 30 | They 'll let you do a activity , this has been going for years but they wo n't let you . |