Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dirk has been farming to biodynamic and organic principles at Busses Farm since 1978 and holds the Soil Association Symbol on the milk from his dairy herd and yoghurt . |
| 2 | To put you on stand-by for the grunt'n'groan grapplers , The Daily Mirror has been speaking to two family rivals — British Bulldog and Bret ‘ Hit Man ’ Hart . |
| 3 | Has been writing to big businesses for money to help their funds . |
| 4 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 5 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 6 | Wilkie claims some existing success in the OEM markets : for the past two years , he says , a ‘ not insignificant ’ proportion of disk drive output has been going to nameless OEM customers . |
| 7 | The Queen has been talking to prime ministers every week since the early fifties : when it comes to practical experience , she is better placed to give advice than her own advisers . |
| 8 | At present some think it weak-kneed through lack of characters but Brian , speaking to us in the Belfry , has been talking to possible sponsors . |
| 9 | Apart from performing the worst of all US football teams in 1990 , the team has amassed losses of $20m since Kiam took over and has been playing to 70 per cent capacity despite some improvement this season . |
| 10 | and we ’ ll be previewing the grand prix season in four weeks time … now next week the Oxford playhouse stages one of the sporting mismatches of the year … and cast in the unlikely role of trainer or coach is Alan Ayckbourn who after Shakespeare is the most performed playwrite of all time … the name of the game is a production about rowing called One Over the Eight which has been playing to packed houses in Scarborough |
| 11 | Cecil resigned from the Cabinet and ever since has been playing to full houses when he addresses the Tory faithful . |
| 12 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 13 | A year ago he was promising economic growth in the UK , which should by now have been accelerating to three per cent per year but , of course , it never happened . |
| 14 | I THINK you must have been going to small moneylenders to be quoted interest rates of this sort . |
| 15 | THE Princess of Wales is understood to have been objecting to two claims . |
| 16 | What he had not bargained for was the fact that these two Gardai had been listening to well-articulated feminist rhetoric all afternoon and were still reeling from the effects . |
| 17 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 18 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 19 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 20 | The advice was given after Jo had been speaking to both children and their parents ( an audience that included 12 year old Romy Hutchins — a participant in the Challenge — and her father Paul , the former British Davis Cup captain and national team manager ) , in a unique question and answer session which preceded an on court clinic for the 20 or so participating juniors . |
| 21 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 22 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 23 | The two cousins had been writing to each other in secret for several weeks , and Cathy had used the milkman as a messenger . |
| 24 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 25 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 26 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |
| 27 | We have found the leaks , and we have connected all , we have reconnected all of the er supplies , including a supply to the cathedral field , which has never been billed in the past er because of erm damage to their meter , it 's only used twenty seven gallons but twenty seven litres , but whilst I 've been here , it 's a water meadow from the result of the water that we 've been supplying to that particular field . |
| 28 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 29 | ‘ So I 've been turning to simpler guitars , guitars that limit you , but that limit you in interesting ways . |
| 30 | During the Christmas and Easter holidays for as long as I can remember , I 've been going to assorted relatives and friends , but in the long , summer months I 've always gone home . |