Example sentences of "it [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has been speaking to me all my life — ’ |
| 2 | The UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Sadako Ogata , urged the US to double the amount of food it has been parachuting into Srebrenica and send 60 tonnes a day . |
| 3 | Brussels-based La Generale de Banque SA expects to save at least 50% on its yearly administrative costs once all of its telephone bills have been incorporated into the Electronic Data Interchange system it has been developing with state telecommunications operator Belgacom , says Thierry Gilmont , process manager at the bank . |
| 4 | All modules for the DEChub 90 hub will fit the One Hub , which will be accompanied by the dual port router it has been developing with Cisco Systems Inc . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Burlington , Massachusetts-based Object Design Inc will ship the Object Access software it has been developing for Progress 4GL in June . |
| 6 | As Tory backbenchers cheered , the Chancellor said : ‘ British business now has the opportunity it has been looking for — to bring the country out of recession , to increase sales , expand production and invest for the future . |
| 7 | The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff . |
| 8 | It is tough on criminals and supportive of police , and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now . " |
| 9 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 10 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 11 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 12 | In fact , like the many German towns vying with one another in the Eighties , Nîmes decided on the building before it even had a collection to put into it , and since 1984 it has been buying in three areas with assistance from funds specially designated by the State for regional museums to collect contemporary works : French art from 1960 to 1990 , with the Nouveau Réalisme and Figuration Libre via the Support-Surface movement ; the Mediterranean scene , with art from southern France , Spain and Italy , with Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia , and represented by artists such as Jose Maria Sicilia , Miquel Barcelo , Susanna Solano , Janis Kounellis , Mario Merz , Giuseppe Penone and Enzo Cucchi ; a taste of English and German tendencies , with Richard Long , Hamish Fulton , Gerhard Richter , Imi Knoebel , Helmut Dorner and others . |
| 13 | It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them . |
| 14 | It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff . |
| 15 | The party reacted with unnecessary embarrassment and defensiveness to government attacks on general talks it has been holding with the Greens , and its desire , as part of its traditional Ostpolitik , to press on with contacts with the Communist party in East Berlin despite the sudden surge of open opposition to the government by East German citizens . |
| 16 | It has been suggesting to UNTAC , the UN authority in Cambodia , whose mandate requires it to stay until the elected assembly writes and enacts a constitution , that the election was rigged in the places ( like the capital , Phnom Penh ) where the CPP did worst . |
| 17 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 18 | It has been swimming with us . |
| 19 | It has been negotiating with the Treasury for a pay increase . |
| 20 | There has also been criticism of the Government 's shifting from a pilot scheme it has been running since 1989 , in which secondary teachers have been linking with primary staff in 76 schools to provide their specialist input . |
| 21 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 22 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 23 | As the minimum economic scale of production in the assembly plant has been decreasing , it has been increasing at the level of the firm for engineering , design and marketing . |
| 24 | However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) . |
| 25 | Breeding was confirmed ten years later in the Kent marshes , and it has been increasing in numbers and colonising more reed beds in the years since . |
| 26 | Doubts have continually dogged the potential deal between the bank — set up in the capital over two years ago with £26 million of institutional backing as a building society acquisition operation — and the Heart of England with which it has been talking for almost two years . |
| 27 | The new ruling , which Advanced Micro plans to appeal , means that it will have to write new microcode for the Am486 chip that it has been sampling to a few potential customers and had hoped to ship by the end of the year . |
| 28 | It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week . |
| 29 | Visible ideas are signs and indications of tangible ideas , and have a constant and universal connection with them which was ‘ learnt at our first entrance into the world ; and ever since , almost every moment of our lives , it has been occurring to our thoughts , and fastening and striking deeper on our minds . ’ |
| 30 | It has been occurring for many years and has been embodied in legislation such as the Housing Acts of 1935 and 1957 , although numbers of sales have fluctuated considerably according to the political complexions of the government of the day . |