Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion Lord Mountbatten had found him licking his wounds and asked if the Prince had been upsetting him . |
| 2 | ‘ The prince has been forging contacts , and speaking to industrialists and politicians to find ways of helping conserve the city . |
| 3 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 4 | Now all this hinted , I 'm sure you 'll agree , that the split had been brewing , indeed planned for some time . |
| 5 | The change has been striking in two areas , with women 's issues and environmental concerns thrust to the head of the party agenda . |
| 6 | OVER the past few days , The Scotsman has been examining the evidence for a so-called ‘ moral crisis ’ in Britain . |
| 7 | In the preceding part of the text , the writer has been describing a particular racehorse ( He ) which had been fitted with blinkers ( them ) for its previous race ( on that occasion ) . |
| 8 | The worst violence yesterday was in the western city of David where the trial had been taking place since July 6 . |
| 9 | For more than a century the Board has been providing qualifications for industry that are internationally recognised and this pedigree leaves it ideally positioned to contribute to the growing need for transportable workplace focused qualifications . |
| 10 | Since early last year , when it became clear that sales and profits were falling , the board has been pondering how ICI should be rationalised . |
| 11 | Erm I I 've done a lot of listening this evening er and I 'm sure you have too from from the way in which the the rest of the board have been responding er with there eyes and ears even if they have n't always been open . |
| 12 | In general , however , his contribution to the cinema has been disappointing compared with his work for the legitimate theatre and the opera house . |
| 13 | The money 's been pouring on to Gala 's Image , odds have come down from 25 to 1 . |
| 14 | The chairman had been introducing people for an eternity , and still no sign of him . |
| 15 | The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago . |
| 16 | The Dragonslayer had been receiving signals from the unnamed planet . |
| 17 | Politicians and political parties for some months prior to the announcement of the date of the election had been making their arrangements for manifestoes and candidates . |
| 18 | The squadron has been preparing for action for the past 2 weeks . |
| 19 | It is believed that the gang had been watching the property from a nearby field . |
| 20 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 21 | ‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’ |
| 22 | But the rink has been losing around £300,000 a year . |
| 23 | It is true that the recession has been putting their customers out of business , but accountants will always be kept busy picking up the pieces , or explaining in long reports why other accountancy firms got it wrong and are liable for a fortune in damages . |
| 24 | Since September 1984 the University has been undertaking a major development plan at Magee , rapidly increasing student numbers and establishing a range of innovative , career-orientated courses with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary scholarship involving all faculties . |
| 25 | Since September 1984 the University has been undertaking a major development plan at Magee , rapidly increasing student numbers and establishing a range of innovative , career-orientated courses with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary scholarship involving all faculties . |
| 26 | The University has been developing ever stronger links with Europe , such as the European Credit Transfer system in Medicine ( the symbol for which is shown above ) . |
| 27 | The University has been pursuing the details of its IT strategy and in 1992–3 , following extensive consultation , it has settled on the framework for the technical elements of this , the principle of which is distributed computing using a client-server model . |
| 28 | Mr Mellon 's generosity to the university has been staggering . |
| 29 | Maggie remembered how the building had been rocking on its foundations . |
| 30 | I had a little snigger ; it had to be fully ten minutes since the last stroke of eleven , and the thunder had been murmuring dark warnings ever since . |