Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since then the 25 business men and women on the committee have been working to an ambitious programme . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | I know the mental health on th on the health service side are facing the same problems and I was wondering to what extent the director had been talking to the District Health Authority on , on those lines . |
| 9 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |
| 10 | At the same time , as the next chapter shows , many of the rural population have been migrating to urban areas in the hope of joining the labour force there . |
| 11 | Wilkie claims some existing success in the OEM markets : for the past two years , he says , a ‘ not insignificant ’ proportion of disk drive output has been going to nameless OEM customers . |
| 12 | You see , I refrain from outlining just what this gentleman has been saying to me — about you all . |
| 13 | Their relationship had been coming to an end and Miss Turner 's parents had arranged for her to go on a holiday to America to deter her from seeing him . |
| 14 | In addition to the British Standards updating service which the Library and Information Service have been offering to their customers , they are now in a position to offer an updating service for standards from other National and International Standard Bodies . |
| 15 | Le-eyo was distinguished by an error which mankind has been trying to right ever since . |
| 16 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 17 | A woman had been talking to him , but she had gone away . |
| 18 | In the pilot 's seat Bill has been listening to the conversation behind him . |
| 19 | To put you on stand-by for the grunt'n'groan grapplers , The Daily Mirror has been speaking to two family rivals — British Bulldog and Bret ‘ Hit Man ’ Hart . |
| 20 | The Home Secretary has been talking to Peter Murphy about the siege and the efforts to end it . |
| 21 | ‘ I can see that your uncle has been talking to you about us , ’ Sophie said drily , ‘ but you do n't understand . |
| 22 | For the past half-hour the little man had been giggling to himself as he stropped a Buck knife razor-sharp on the inside of his belt . |
| 23 | Anxious readers of the Daily Telegraph have been writing to me in their thousands to ask : what happens to these celebrities in the event of a hung parliament ? |
| 24 | According to last week 's gossip , Sparc licencees Fujitsu Ltd and LSI Logic have been talking to DEC about Alpha ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 25 | The Thing had been listening to radio and television and had found the place the going-straight-up Shuttles went from . |
| 26 | And er an interesting thing had been coming to our house She comes goes to the same church . |
| 27 | Stocking knitting had been removing to the east Midlands from the last years of the preceding century . |
| 28 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
| 29 | The film has been showing to an empty room . |
| 30 | It is recognised that a lot of people who might once have bought homes in the West Country have been flocking to France in recent years to cash in on the predicted property boom . |