Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have therefore been considering the case for taking the initiative and disclosing details of the Committee structure . |
| 32 | Alternately alarmed and exalted by Barry Fox 's reports of the progress of CD ( we who are in the know call it that ) I have therefore been following the advertisements of equipment to play CD records . |
| 33 | ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders . |
| 34 | I have always been waiting , all my life , for writing and story-telling to be transparent to me as well ; that moment has arrived … |
| 35 | ‘ What I have always been doing . |
| 36 | Can I say that we ourselves have also been drafting a set of criteria , er taking on board the various points that were made on Friday morning . |
| 37 | The two power stations awarded licenses by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , are Richborough in Kent and Ince in Merseyside , which have both been burning the fuel on an experimental basis for the last three years . |
| 38 | It is a responsibility that has resulted in the revival of the importance of the data processing department — a shift not lost on Microsoft Corp , Lotus Development Corp and Borland International Inc which have all been attempting to play down their ‘ shrink wrapped ’ status with corporate licensing deals and the like . |
| 39 | This project is examining some of the longer term implications for housing consumers and housing policies of the important changes which have recently been taking place in the institutional framework of owner-occupied housing finance in Britain . |
| 40 | ‘ We can not commit ourselves to sacking senior managers who have simply been doing their jobs . |
| 41 | Another approach is provided by researchers who have recently been attempting to model driving using a production system architecture ( e.g. Aasman , 1988 ; Hale , Stoop & Hommels , 1990 ; Michon 1988 ) . |
| 42 | But they were a substantial minority , and those historians who have recently been studying inheritance have reached some interesting conclusions . |
| 43 | The correct movements are an extension of the positioning which you have already been using to maintain the patient in the right body posture . |
| 44 | Anyone with a history of injuries ( or if you have already been skiing and suffered one ) will benefit from a session on their Cybex analysis machine ( £30 ) which sagely tests joint and muscular strength at different resistances . |
| 45 | In your do-it-yourself practice you have already been talking aloud to yourself . |
| 46 | You have probably been perspiring quite impressively too , and you are beginning to have fantasies of pints of a cool drink . |
| 47 | If you have been following a normal varied British pattern of eating you have probably been consuming less dietary fibre than you need for health protection , but it is unlikely that you are deficient in minerals and vitamins . |
| 48 | You have also been watching the chateau . |
| 49 | Now , as well as consuming the dry-roasted peanuts , you have also been making a close study of my wallpaper . |
| 50 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 51 | She is simply an older version of the woman you have just been talking to , and so the farce goes into Round Two with defeat for the customer the only possible outcome . |
| 52 | Have anxiety , fear , guilt , anger , personal embarrassment or ridicule played a significant part in what you have just been analysing ? |
| 53 | ‘ I hope you have all been practising during the holiday , ’ said Miss Hardbroom , as the girls all lined up with their brooms hovering next to them and the cats perched on the back — that is to say , most of the cats were perched on the back . |
| 54 | We know that Roz 's new book on ‘ tensions ’ , which you have all been waiting for , is about to be published and she is also working on another booklet of machine knitting trims . |
| 55 | Preston and London East are already there ( CONGRATULATIONS ! ) and I know you have all been working hard to ensure the National Assessment goes well at the end of November . |
| 56 | We have already been using a few special words , and as we shall be using several more , let's define the meaning of some words and phrases connected with pruning . |
| 57 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 58 | I believe that we will be regarded as a slightly frivolous century , and that we will not be showered with the sort of praise that we have blithely been giving ourselves . |
| 59 | I think we have probably been trying to reach each other several times in the last week or two unsuccessfully . |
| 60 | ‘ Some of the balls he played were magnificent and that is something we have probably been missing a little bit this season . |