Example sentences of "[conj] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that she actually has officially erm the Prime Minister 's political adviser briefs her on events in the war , or has been briefing her . |
| 2 | Or has been going in the past , and violence obviously can result in serious injury or at least death . |
| 3 | There 's some worry about something — either he 's not going to be able to do the work , someone 's going to laugh or has been laughing at him , he does n't think the teacher 's going to understand , and it 's generally a terrible problem first thing in the morning to get him to get ready and get to school . |
| 4 | Patients were excluded if they had evidence of intestinal obstruction , previous gastric surgery , a contraindication to steroid treatment , or had been receiving more than 7.5 mg prednisolone/ day at the time of relapse . |
| 5 | If other members of the psychogeriatric team had agreed that the development officer should try to support some of these clients , or had been pressing to have them discharged , she would undoubtedly have agreed to try . |
| 6 | Other regions were much richer in cropland and pasture , with good timber and fisheries , and there people prospered and multiplied , or had been doing , it was clear , under this King 's guidance . |
| 7 | Whether you have just moved into a new home or have been living in the same place for years the main thing is that you are alone and you must make your home your pride , your joy , your sanctuary . |
| 8 | In case you had n't figured it out already , or have been vacationing in the Amazon rain forest , ACE is well and truly dead . |
| 9 | Certainly , if you 're familiar with earlier versions of Paradox or have been benchmarking the competition , Version 4 seems remarkably swift.It 's all down to a substantial rewrite , particularly of the disk caching . |
| 10 | If you have been told to aim for a very precise figure , or have been following conventional height-to-weight charts , then you are almost definitely trying for an unrealistic weight . |
| 11 | About 90% of rural adults in Mexico have friends or relatives who are or have been working in the United States . |
| 12 | This is unfortunate , for a series that has been gestating for three years . |
| 13 | A trap that has been expanding its grip steadily since the end of the Eighties . |
| 14 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 15 | Roy Mackintosh is MD of a local foundry that has been supplying Pringle 's with castings for many years . |
| 16 | And then she said : ‘ Mebbe he 's one of that gang that has been holding up grocery stores . ’ |
| 17 | A five-member UN war crimes commission that has been sifting through mountains of documents submitted by governments and non-governmental bodies is building a computerised database of reported atrocities , accompanied by names of victims , alleged perpetrators and witnesses . |
| 18 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 19 | Snodin provided an authority in central midfield that has been lacking since the departure of Peter Reid and Rideout said : ‘ Ian Snodin made the difference with a little bit of class . |
| 20 | To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d per cent up to that day . |
| 21 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
| 22 | These cold statistics do not show one important trend that has been taking place since 1945 . |
| 23 | Bradford showed little of the enterprising approach that has been helping them shed a dour image this season , but it was not until the 64th minute that they began to slide out of the contest . |
| 24 | But quite a few samples are thought to have nitrogens of about 1.4% , and for that quality of sample the suggestion in the trade is that a premium of up to £20/t could be available , though this is compared with a spot feed market that has been weakening over the past week . |
| 25 | All morning it has been calm but now we are threatened by a storm that has been brewing out to the west . |
| 26 | I am deeply interested in the row that has been brewing for some time in the heat of the nuclear arms debate , and not only because the key figure is a friend of mine . |
| 27 | Data to be published shortly draws on experiments including observations of Freddy , the dolphin that has been living off the Northumbrian coast for four years . |
| 28 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 29 | The American versus British female stereotype is a trans-Atlantic difference of opinion that has been raging for decades . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not interested in all the tittle-tattle that has been flying about . ’ |