Example sentences of "has be [v-ing] to [art] " 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 | In the pilot 's seat Bill has been listening to the conversation behind him . |
| 3 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | For 40 years the North Warren Fen , between Aldeburgh and Thorpeness , has been succumbing to the advances of dominant vegetation and specialised reedbed bird species such as bittern , bearded tit and marsh harrier have suffered as a result . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Harold Lock has been coming to the pool since he was a child and says it would be a crime to close it down . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She has been talking to the Seniors about working on Saturdays . |
| 12 | Harriet Ryley has been talking to an organic farmer who believes in putting the environment before profits . |
| 13 | Robin Powell has been talking to an Oxfordshire woman just elected , who takes a less optimistic view . |
| 14 | The film has been showing to an empty room . |
| 15 | ‘ CCG has been responding to the implications of the Act since its publication last year . |
| 16 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
| 17 | The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s . |
| 18 | Third To make the public aware of what has been happening to the badger . |