Example sentences of "have been [verb] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hussey has been doing more than both driving and reading the map . |
| 2 | One result of my illness has been to change all that : When you are faced with the possibility of an early death , it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are lots of things you want to do . |
| 3 | the finished product has been re-designed such that different materials and components will be used ; |
| 4 | One big star , Billy Ray Cyrus , was invented by the marketing men last year and has been playing more or less bubblegum pop . |
| 5 | Women 's Weeklies You see women have been asked this as well . |
| 6 | Should n't have been doing that and should n't have been doing that . |
| 7 | The ideas carried in the individual features , including an end to mass unemployment , a planned economy , a comprehensive system of social security and health care , a clean sweep of all that was old-fashioned and squalid in housing and the urban legacy of the industrial revolution , and many more , represented a virtual glossary of progressive views current in the Britain of the 1930s and its contributors a fair cross-section of the high-minded and socially concerned individuals who had been advocating these and similar ideas well before the outbreak of war . |
| 8 | If Lewis had been learning more than he knew before about humility , Williams had been learning more than he knew before about medieval literature . |
| 9 | If Lewis had been learning more than he knew before about humility , Williams had been learning more than he knew before about medieval literature . |
| 10 | He had not been eating properly and had been drinking more than usual . |
| 11 | In the meantime a jig had been prepared such that the tailplanes could be broken under loads not dissimilar to those they would meet in the air . |
| 12 | At the end of September 143 people had been waiting more than a year . |
| 13 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |
| 14 | I suppose you 've been watching that as well . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been wearing those since I was a casual all those years ago , but they 're a sticks-man item , not mod in any way . ’ |
| 16 | Knuckle down to any jobs you 've been promising all and sundry to do , but have secretly been avoiding like the plague . |
| 17 | You think you can push me around because you 've been doing that since we were in the nursery . |
| 18 | Yes , I 've heard that you 've been doing more than sending it out , you 've actually been taking it personally have n't you ? |
| 19 | That 's right , I 've , I 've been through over the year 's I 've been doing this and they say , whether it 's because they know if the background at the er vets , the private vets there , you know I do n't know , but the information I get from them , that there 'd a , there not prepared to over . |
| 20 | Now we 've been doing these or working with estate agents for twenty years . |
| 21 | Must get one a microwave if Debbie comes home I think , I 'll see , I 've been saying that but I was thinking if , I 'll have to wait and see Debbie |
| 22 | Figures presented in the conference report show that some states have been receiving more than their fair share of government resources for health care taking into account population . |
| 23 | Compared with European or North American species , the cotingas have been studied little and , consequently , almost every recent observation is of interest . |
| 24 | Since the start of the summer the papers have been saying this and that about us . |
| 25 | The increase will not be matched by dividend rises — too many companies have been paying more than they could afford over the past two years and need to repair their reserves and ratios — but 7 p.c. growth looks reasonable . |
| 26 | What we 're , in effect what we 're saying is that for a a number of years the Communist Party has provided , has made that moral economy work i in a s and made it work very well because rents have been reduced more than the peasants would expect erm er interest rate is extremely low . |
| 27 | Both sets of data have been normalised such that the lowest value is equal to 1 . |
| 28 | For behind the public posturings , there 's no doubt that both of these gentlemen have been having more than a little local difficulty with their respective parties . |
| 29 | If , in the original solution , the functions f , g and M have been chosen such that the terms in ( 12.47 ) have already cancelled the terms and in S , then the new solution for M will be given by . |
| 30 | Although it 's two years later they 've got to resell at the price that er it 's been discounted more or less . |