Example sentences of "a [noun] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1981 Transport Act now states that once the police have reasonable cause to believe that a driver has been drinking , they can follow him home and breath test him there if they wish . |
| 2 | A sheep had been eating it and poor Sir Thomas got the wrong one . ’ |
| 3 | Retail price maintenance still being lawful in the case of books , the publisher might well include the recommended retail price on the cover of the book ( or in an advertisement ) , only to be surprised subsequently to learn that a retailer has been selling at a different price . |
| 4 | How can you tell when a motorcyclist has been having fun speeding on the motorway ? |
| 5 | A stranger had been chatting with Mrs O for some time . |
| 6 | ‘ I did feel a bit ropey earlier in the week and a bug has been going around the club for sometime . |
| 7 | Is it a 50 watt bulb that a child 's been scribbling on |
| 8 | A COUPLE who know the heartache of losing a child have been looking after Brian McDermott 's grave . |
| 9 | When she arrived at the theatre that night she saw a note pinned up at the stage door stating that it had come to the management 's notice that a Girl had been flying , which was forbidden ! |
| 10 | A baby does n't have to mean a girl 's been whoring — it can come from a single night . |
| 11 | Jim feels ‘ as if a demon had been whispering in his ear ’ and goes to his death with the whisper still sounding , killed by the people he had tried , in one final , tragic mistake , to save for the future . |
| 12 | Here , after a campaign has been running for some time , a sample survey is used , in which questions are asked about the brands in the market in question : |
| 13 | Christian leaders who had been contemplating such a move have been backing off . |
| 14 | Towards the end of the 19th century , a crisis had been building up over the names of organic compounds . |
| 15 | A crisis has been looming in dental care for 2 years , ever since The Health Service reorganised its payment system . |
| 16 | For example , if a business has been making integrated circuits by a special process for several years but has failed to apply for a patent , another business , wishing to do the same type of work , will be refused a patent on the grounds that the invention is not new . |
| 17 | Such a process has been taking place for a long time . |
| 18 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 19 | And a mouse has been keeping the cat well amused . |
| 20 | Arguably the only practical advantage in embalming was that it could reveal whether or not a person had been suffering from catalepsy . |
| 21 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |
| 22 | Very loudly ( ad for some time before ) , a tailor had been singing as he sat at a window in a comer of the yard . |
| 23 | The government said that it was clear that Mr Athulathmudali was yet another victim of the Tigers , who for more than a decade have been fighting for a separate Tamil state on the island . |
| 24 | Between 60 and 70 a day have been attending the job help centre on site and quite a number have found other work . |
| 25 | For over 2 months now , 1,200 tons of apples a day have been arriving at the Bulmers Cider factory in Hereford . |
| 26 | A friend had been looking after them . |
| 27 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 28 | Negotiations for a concordat had been going on between Spain and the Vatican for about the same length of time as those between Spain and the United States . |
| 29 | A court 's been hearing how a four year old girl was found battered and half-starved after her parents locked her up in a bedroom for months on end . |
| 30 | A court 's been hearing claims that a bailiff trying to recover unpaid motoring fines broke the driver 's arm when he went to his house . |