Example sentences of "it have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The item that makes everyone tick at PE also lies within the former gunnery hall , but it has been receiving attention since its arrival — within the hold of a Safair L–100 Hercules . |
| 2 | It says that it has been urging motor manufacturers to make cars more secure since 1961 . |
| 3 | On the distribution side , it has been building greenfield warehouses on the Continent and recently paid £10m to buy a facility in Warrington out of receivership . |
| 4 | A third has just returned from an overnight trip to Otterbur in the north-east of England Where it has been helping to move personnel and matériel around the ranges . |
| 5 | It has been taking on staff , including temporary organisers in the constituencies , whose contracts will expire four weeks after a general election . |
| 6 | in the million years it has been taking |
| 7 | ‘ It has been speaking to me all my life — ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In recent years , when there have been reductions in public funding for housing associations , it has been developing an increasing proportion of properties for sale in order to maintain and expand its activities . |
| 10 | It has been developing away on a polymer foam that is intended to fill an entire building ‘ from floor to ceiling ’ in a few seconds after an alarm is tripped . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Burlington , Massachusetts-based Object Design Inc will ship the Object Access software it has been developing for Progress 4GL in June . |
| 14 | The organisation is about to move away from the combined paper-based and spreadsheet systems it has been using to produce its statutory and management accounts . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is tough on criminals and supportive of police , and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now . " |
| 18 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | After it has been raining , go out in rubber boots to look for puddles , and walk through them . |
| 22 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ It has been raining heavily all day and we had no option but to abandon the meeting . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Assume that it has been trying to help you , in some misguided way . |
| 25 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 26 | It has been gathering there ever since the breach was healed . |
| 27 | FOR the first time in more than 20 years the Drummond Locomotive Society 's Class M7 locomotive No. 30053 hauled a passenger train at the East Anglian Railway Museum where it has been undergoing major restoration work . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff . |