Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An average rate is probably somewhere in the order of ten to fifteen millimetres per hundred years , which probably does n't seem very fast when you say it in terms of a hundred years , but when you think in terms of the length of time that landscapes have been involving , then erm you 've got to multiply it by centuries and indeed millions of years , and erm you can see that quite erm dramatic changes can occur . |
| 2 | For the past 150 years our politicians have been droning on about the need to train the British worker to the level of the German , oblivious to the somewhat obvious fact that we are not Germans so can not be expected to behave like them . |
| 3 | Oceans have been picking up soluble materials ( notably sodium chloride — salt ) from the land , for millions of years . |
| 4 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 5 | Local folk have been picking here for generations and always made sure that the beds were not overfished . |
| 6 | SECRET service agents HAVE been snooping on Princess Diana and other members of the Royal Family , The People can reveal . |
| 7 | And customers in one of the UK 's leading supermarkets have been discovering how to produce tasty bread , pizzas and pastries in a special free leaflet distributed in Sainsbury stores . |
| 8 | I have been discovering how much travel writing relies on metaphor to describe the unfamiliar , using an imagery that the folks back home will recognise . |
| 9 | Friends of the Earth groups around the world have been publicising the plight of the rainforest and have had particular success in Brazil , supporting Paulinho Paiakan of the Kayapo and other tribal leaders . |
| 10 | Let us assume that agents have been flirting for a while with the use of the adaptive expectations mechanism but that , in the light of the persistent , systematic errors which this mechanism entails , they quickly abandon it . |
| 11 | But they have been sneering at America since Sidney Smith , François Mauriac and George Grosz and will go on doing so long after Harold Pinter is gone . |
| 12 | In 1986 there was new legislation to restore these traditional colours to houses in the island and banning the use of unpainted aluminium for windows , gates and so on , which have been spoiling many of the traditional buildings . |
| 13 | Oh no , my father stand aboard there when we have been dredging , you know , and they come up there at speed and he stood there and he swore at at that part of if , call them all the crazy buggers my father . |
| 14 | Peasant federations in Costa Rica , a country with a reputation for democratic institutions and relative equality , have been protesting at the surprisingly skewed distribution of land , by seizing unused land belonging to multinationals . |
| 15 | The Irish in Britain Representation Group led a march from Whittington Park calling for the release of the Birmingham 6 and the Guildford 4 , who have been protesting their innocence for the past 14 years . |
| 16 | Hundreds of people campaigning against VAT on dometic fuel have been protesting in a torchlit demonstration in Glasgow 's George Square . |
| 17 | Hundreds of retired railway workers have been protesting at what they claim is a government plan to raid their pension funds . |
| 18 | Library users have been protesting against plans to close libraries as part of a cost-cutting exercise . |
| 19 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 20 | Yet when one starts to look at the overall picture a little more deeply , will the obvious strengthening of what will be nine single Championship weeks , be anything more than a move which enables the rich to get richer and actually sets into motion what could become a long term contraction , rather than expansion of the sport , especially if the much-needed revival in the world economy takes longer to become bullish than some of the optimists have been forecasting . |
| 21 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 22 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 23 | Microsoft and DEC have been porting NT to Alpha for the last year : conveniently DEC has a facility just a mile away from the Microsoft campus in Belleview , Washington . |
| 24 | For a number of years , my wife Ann and I have been fishing with a party of friends at Altnaharra . |
| 25 | If I have been fishing to the north of Fetlar , I sometimes take the ‘ inner route ’ back , a rather tortuous passage through the reefs and islets where navigation has to be pretty precise to avoid hitting hidden rocks . |
| 26 | Since then I have been trying to gain recognition from Technics . |
| 27 | Christian deputies have been trying to obtain some form of timetable for a Syrian military withdrawal before accepting political reforms , but at their fifth meeting yesterday , the 62 MPs — half of them Christians — were persuaded to debate the future powers of a Christian Maronite president . |
| 28 | OVER THE past few years Britain and her European allies have been trying to adapt a system designed to catch Warsaw Pact spies to the task of hunting international terrorists . |
| 29 | Q I have been trying with little success to get hold of a list of camping barn and bunkhouse type accommodations . |
| 30 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |