Example sentences of "[noun] have be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemingly symbiotic link has been damaging to the more general applicability of these criteria in other contexts . |
| 2 | Lt Col Stewart has been reporting to the UN on some of the dreadful conditions suffered by refugees at the front-line town of Maglaj , where he said the situation was ‘ disgraceful . ’ |
| 3 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 4 | Harold Lock has been coming to the pool since he was a child and says it would be a crime to close it down . |
| 5 | ‘ His department has been saying to us in recent weeks that we could not have the classrooms and toilets we need because there are empty places in other schools . |
| 6 | Mr. Edmonds has been talking to himself for years … now everyone listens |
| 7 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | David Lyell had been returning to Britain from Carolina as a member of the crew of a merchant vessel when his ship was intercepted by a cruiser and he was impressed for service in an undermanned warship . |
| 10 | Kevin Kline 's been chatting to John Miller about working with a great actor — himself ! |
| 11 | Since before the war animals have been going to the surgery for treatment . |
| 12 | Robin Powell has been talking to an Oxfordshire woman just elected , who takes a less optimistic view . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ So Alexei has been referring to me as his uncle ? ’ |
| 16 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 19 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 20 | Since then the 25 business men and women on the committee have been working to an ambitious programme . |
| 21 | Generations of gypsies have been travelling to Stow each year . |
| 22 | Jane 's been talking to Paul about it and he 's being very non committal because of this Y T S T M review |
| 23 | Inevitably we have n't held er er they have n't been able to hold up that new members this year and er the main job has been trying to er keep quite a number of the members who were recruited er to the gen following er the general election . |
| 24 | Labour 's deputy leader has been saying to the councils , ’ You may not get as much as you want , but you will certainly get more . ’ |
| 25 | Frank Strandli has been talking to Howard Wilkinson about his future at Elland Road . |
| 26 | Mrs Grandison followed her apprehensively into one of those ubiquitous tea-shops which cater for the multitudes of office workers and others who want a cheap meal at any time of the day , and which , excellent though they are , can hardly be compared with the restaurants Mrs Grandison had been hoping to lunch in . |
| 27 | She also knew that Bertie had been lying to her over ‘ discontinuing ’ the post . |
| 28 | Jaelani said that the troops had been responding to " chaos or riot " , but nevertheless some officers had been " emotional " and their actions were " beyond the limit of propriety " and " exceeded the limit of toleration " . |
| 29 | ACET 's local representative , Ana Ureche , reported that she was ‘ greatly encouraged ’ that course participants had been lecturing to schools and other groups and had passed much of the literature obtained form the course to other colleagues for their use . |
| 30 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |