Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last three months , the Government has been collecting responses to its proposals to overhaul the law on leasehold flats . |
| 2 | OSF HAS BEEN SUBMITTING MOTIF TO X/OPEN REGULARLY |
| 3 | For example , the Banana Company of Costa Rica , a subsidiary of United Brands , has been converting plantations to African palm production , an enterprise which has a guaranteed internal market , as Costa Rica imports nearly all its vegetable oil . |
| 4 | Gregory , who has been teaching English to Thais for two years , is being held in a women 's prison . |
| 5 | His new Food and Beverage Manager appears to accept the idea as theoretically desirable , but gives it a low priority in practice : privately , he has been urging Winter to ‘ crack the whip a bit ’ , arguing that the whole establishment needs ‘ a good shake up ’ before reforms can be introduced effectively . |
| 6 | A group of venture scouts has been bringing smiles to the faces of children from refugee camps in Bosnia . |
| 7 | Discovering that the man who has been passing threats to me is the mighty Tod Richardson will not help me sleep peacefully in my bed . |
| 8 | Peter has been delivering yarn to Elderslie since 1946 when he worked with his family 's haulage business before joining Douglas Reyburn . |
| 9 | The former chairman of ICI has been offering advice to everyone from fruit sellers to factory owners . |
| 10 | A hospital has been saying farewell to one of its last links with it 's wartime origins . |
| 11 | ‘ For three years the Government has been cutting help to the unemployed , depriving them of the training they need and reducing their ability to find their way back to work . |
| 12 | ‘ Because if you do n't , ’ said Owen , ‘ I shall let it be generally known that Andrus has been giving money to the Moslems for them to use against Copts . ’ |
| 13 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 14 | Oh she 'd been taking Matthew to work . |
| 15 | He let the foot he 'd been massaging fall to the floor with a thud , and she winced . |
| 16 | The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems . |
| 17 | He would have been supplying booze to restaurants and nightclubs . |
| 18 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 19 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 20 | er ready to enter the flat , he would n't have been paying attention to what I was doing . |
| 21 | Technically , Harvard dealers should not have been selling stock to clients who had not dealt three times with the company , unless they had sent out written information about the stock . |
| 22 | Anyway , we kept blowing in , and we must have been doing mouth to mouth for about eighteen er about a mi a minute and a half . |
| 23 | Her voice very nearly cracked at the thought that Fen might have been making love to his girlfriend only feet away from where she , Robbie , lay . |
| 24 | Ali , it turned out , had been sentencing people to death for years . |
| 25 | Yesterday Mike O'Connor , a Stockton builder who briefly worked with Mr Round early last year , said he had ended their association after learning that his partner had been bouncing cheques to suppliers . |
| 26 | Yesterday Mike O'Connor , a Stockton builder who briefly worked with Mr Round early last year , said he had ended their association after learning that his partner had been bouncing cheques to suppliers . |
| 27 | To consolidate his hold on Georgia , Alexander had been moving east to the Persian-controlled shore of the south-western Caspian and west to the Turkish-controlled shore of the south-eastern Black Sea . |
| 28 | Opposition parties led by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP ) tabled a no confidence motion , due for debate in October , over revelations that the security forces had been providing arms to the LTTE in late 1989 . |
| 29 | Meantime , the Parents ' Action Committee had been writing letters to Councillors as well . |
| 30 | The passenger committee , who throughout the crisis had been sending telegrams to prominent Americans asking them to intercede , could think of no one else to contact . |