Example sentences of "[that] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is unfortunate , for a series that has been gestating for three years . |
| 2 | A trap that has been expanding its grip steadily since the end of the Eighties . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Roy Mackintosh is MD of a local foundry that has been supplying Pringle 's with castings for many years . |
| 5 | And then she said : ‘ Mebbe he 's one of that gang that has been holding up grocery stores . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d per cent up to that day . |
| 10 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
| 11 | These cold statistics do not show one important trend that has been taking place since 1945 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | All morning it has been calm but now we are threatened by a storm that has been brewing out to the west . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The American versus British female stereotype is a trans-Atlantic difference of opinion that has been raging for decades . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not interested in all the tittle-tattle that has been flying about . ’ |
| 20 | It 's beginning to feel like an age old question , or certainly one that has been hanging around since the dark ages . |
| 21 | Opening the can of Coke that has been rattling round in your school bag all morning . |
| 22 | However , although it is the ideal course of action for John — allowing him to take advantage of some of the excellent schemes around at the moment as well as releasing cash that has been building up in his home over the years — he should look out for excessive costs that a remortgage can incur . |
| 23 | Though the Boston Compact on which other Compacts have been based was only signed formally in 1982 , it represents the culmination of a relationship between Boston schools and local industry that has been developing since the early 1970s . |
| 24 | Miami 's new-born Murk label that has been causing something of a stir on these shores of late , enough at least for Network to wet their oars and row straight for a licensing deal that sees three of the label 's best tracks to date brought together for a sampler EP . |
| 25 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 26 | Under licence from Chorus it will be bringing out a product based on the System V 3.2/Intel technology of Chorus Mix so it can pursue the real-time and telecomms business that has been slipping through its fingers . |
| 27 | In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years . |
| 28 | The deal , said by sources to be ‘ very valuable to Pyramid , ’ will also allow ICL to OEM the company 's high-end MIServer ES machines — this follows on from an informal Pyramid-ICL sales teaming that has been operating in the UK for the last few months . |
| 29 | It is argued that the traditional bureaucratic mechanistic structure that has been operating for so long can no longer cope with the dynamic environment that we now live in . |
| 30 | To understand the UK economy and the restructuring of Britain that has been occurring we have to consider not only the response of British industry to changes in the world economy , but the character of those global changes themselves and the forces that have produced them . |