Example sentences of "what have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite clearly , while I 'm not prepared to put a a figure on the contribution that conversions are going to make to the period to two thousand and six , I 'll be most surprised if it was a long way different from what has been taking place in the past . |
| 2 | Tt er and i in a sense there 's kind of been an upward trend in terms of progression through that , that reform but within that there have obviously been a number of and in a sense what we 've been coming to terms with is , is what has been causing those , those variations , those changes in that policy . |
| 3 | Of what has been collecting centuries |
| 4 | a a step back in time over the last five years of what has been delivering and there are many thousands of customers using in that manner . |
| 5 | Well he said Mike must have said , what has been holding it up if I , we were under the impression that when she left London , she was finished with her property |
| 6 | What has been lacking however — as well as the political will to do something — has been any shared agreement on the cause . |
| 7 | For what has been lacking is not the terms of the contract but the signature of the believer . |
| 8 | What has been missing in our equipment , our foresight , our leadership ? |
| 9 | The probability is that in May or October ( still a toss-up between them ) Mrs Thatcher will offer more of the same , judging by what has been emerging from the dozen policy groups set up to produce ideas for the manifesto . |
| 10 | What has been distorting the diesel/petrol cost equation is the deep discounting by dealers desperate to unload stocks . |
| 11 | I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country . |
| 12 | It is only in cases of the most violent attacks that parents get to know what has been happening because , as the girls told me ‘ we do n't like to worry them about it . |
| 13 | It could also stop the central government from imposing half-baked measures in the guise of reform , which is largely what has been happening until now . |
| 14 | What has been happening in Latin America is that the growth of education has been much faster than structural change in society , with the result that some of the potential value of education for social mobility is lost . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | The list of libraries will come as a shock to anyone who is unaware of what has been happening . |
| 17 | Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians . |
| 18 | Under Cause and Onset look at what has been happening in the preceding hours or days to the onset of the illness and consider the speed with which the illness came on and the order of events . |
| 19 | This chapter begins by examining what has been happening outside the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | It then focuses more closely on what has been happening inside the UK and at the experiences of some of the schools which have already been financially autonomous . |
| 21 | In reality what has been happening is that humanity , driven by the inexorable power of the primordial desire for earthly happiness , has been producing a constant stream of decisions from which the good , which will ultimately help with the building of the Created God , have been extracted . |
| 22 | If any of your friends are aware of what has been happening , take them with you . |
| 23 | Having displayed in this clear format what has been happening , you will then be able to interpret the general trend , and raise questions regarding those years which proved to be exceptions to the overall picture . |
| 24 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 25 | The big question was : Who is this girl — and what has been happening to her ? |
| 26 | Revulsion at what has been happening there is not a prerogative of the politically correct . |
| 27 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 28 | The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period . |
| 29 | To understand the force of these interpretations of what has been happening we must be clear as to what the contrasting but implicit concept of order is supposed to comprise . |
| 30 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |