Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] having [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 2 | Siemens AG has been having such a tough time in the former Soviet Union with its nuclear safety and telecommunications projects that it has been cutting back and recalling expatriates early ( CI No 2,043 ) , but Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG does have some work . |
| 3 | Mr Brown has been having increasing pain and a " dragging " sensation in his right groin . |
| 4 | I have been asked to reply My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been having important discussions today with President Yeltsin , who is on his first visit abroad as President of an independent Russia . |
| 5 | The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields . |
| 6 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 7 | Erm mine 's good but Martin 's been having some back trouble . |
| 8 | A teenager who 's been having pioneering medical treatment to help him grow , is back on his feet … and learning karate . |