Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an effort to make life more interesting for our younger members of staff and our graduate element , I have been inviting past students back to lecture on any aspect of their current work . |
| 2 | Rival warlords Mohamed Farrah Aidid and Ali Mahdi Mohamed have been looting Western emergency aid supplies sent to the area . |
| 3 | The movement into private care has been accentuated by tight control of local authority expenditure at a time when numbers of people have been ‘ deinstitutionalised ’ from psychiatric and psycho-geriatric units , and when people from an ageing population have been seeking residential care for the first time . |
| 4 | The government-sponsored loan guarantees could be an alternative for some airlines which have been seeking foreign partners , the Times said . |
| 5 | In the main , we have been exploring sensory perception and physical reality . |
| 6 | They have been pestering other UN agencies , embassies and local traders , so far without success . |
| 7 | In recent years , telephone companies in Western Europe have been investing fabulous sums in replacing their old , analogue networks with digital ones . |
| 8 | Since March 20th , when the Bank of Japan raised its discount rate by a further 1% ( to 5.25% ) , the banks have been warning corporate customers that loans will now cost more than 7% . |
| 9 | POSC member companies — the oil industry 's open systems user organisation — and the group 's permanent staff have been evaluating potential SIP components since last December . |
| 10 | In peephological terms , the voters have been fed large doses of medicine for the past month . |
| 11 | But more recently banks have been providing other forms of merger funding-'mezzanine debt' , which does not rate as highly in terms of claims against the company 's assets , but provides additional financial resources . |
| 12 | Some of them have been getting strong criticism lately . |
| 13 | The Midlanders have been eating humble pie this season , though they deserve better fare . |
| 14 | This has meant that dead animals are left by the roadside for the council to collect , and the local slaughterhouses have been receiving sick animals as some farmers try to use it as a replacement for the knacker 's yard . |
| 15 | Sainsbury 's have been baking french bread for many years . |
| 16 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 17 | I have been coaching black kids for more than 20 years . |
| 18 | But already candidates have been holding informal sessions , enticing potential voters with great banquets of slaughtered sheep . |
| 19 | Later , as a Member of Parliament , I have been to see archaeological sites — Clickimmin Broch is one of the most remarkable in Britain — to talk to multinational oil companies at Sullom Voe , and to campaign against the Scotland and Wales Bills of 1978–79 , successfully , as it turned out . |
| 20 | Glentoran have been eyeing Dundonald-based Ferguson for some time . |
| 21 | Since then those lines have been undergoing separate evolution , giving rise to yet further , more recent branches . |
| 22 | Gendarmes have been teaching French schoolchildren for twenty years , and claim by teaching kids , they teach their parents as well . |
| 23 | We have been teaching electronic publishing to undergraduate students for some ten years now , and to computer science undergraduates for six years . |
| 24 | It 's the work of Grenobloise company named Alp'Roc who , until now , have been manufacturing normal climbing wall apparatus . |
| 25 | Brintons have been manufacturing fine quality woven carpet over 200 years / . |
| 26 | The most dramatic thing about the recent dietary fibre research is that it has , to a degree , altered the basis on which experts have been calculating potential weight loss over the past half century or so … the period during which overweight people have been begging diet doctors and dieticians to help them shed that surplus fat . |
| 27 | Prison officers and civil servants have been taking industrial action in protest over what they claim is a move towards privatisation . |
| 28 | At one hospital staff have been taking extra steps to make sure patients know what choices they have , and they say the results are dramatic . |
| 29 | ‘ Registrations are running about 300 up on last year ; average prices have been £300 to £500 up on the previous year ; and our commercial customers have been taking top prices for finished Limousin crosses at markets through the UK . |
| 30 | We have been taking slow steps towards that goal and have faced a number of barriers along the way . |