Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SECRET service agents HAVE been snooping on Princess Diana and other members of the Royal Family , The People can reveal . |
| 2 | Let us assume that agents have been flirting for a while with the use of the adaptive expectations mechanism but that , in the light of the persistent , systematic errors which this mechanism entails , they quickly abandon it . |
| 3 | But they have been sneering at America since Sidney Smith , François Mauriac and George Grosz and will go on doing so long after Harold Pinter is gone . |
| 4 | Peasant federations in Costa Rica , a country with a reputation for democratic institutions and relative equality , have been protesting at the surprisingly skewed distribution of land , by seizing unused land belonging to multinationals . |
| 5 | Hundreds of retired railway workers have been protesting at what they claim is a government plan to raid their pension funds . |
| 6 | Library users have been protesting against plans to close libraries as part of a cost-cutting exercise . |
| 7 | Hundreds of people campaigning against VAT on dometic fuel have been protesting in a torchlit demonstration in Glasgow 's George Square . |
| 8 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 9 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 10 | If I have been fishing to the north of Fetlar , I sometimes take the ‘ inner route ’ back , a rather tortuous passage through the reefs and islets where navigation has to be pretty precise to avoid hitting hidden rocks . |
| 11 | For a number of years , my wife Ann and I have been fishing with a party of friends at Altnaharra . |
| 12 | Q I have been trying with little success to get hold of a list of camping barn and bunkhouse type accommodations . |
| 13 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 14 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 15 | Scientists have been trying for years to realize the potential of hydrogen , but they have been thwarted by the problem of storing the gas , which is highly explosive and needs to be kept in high-pressure containers . |
| 16 | The woman , who is married and lives in Formby , Sefton , said : ‘ I have been trying for a child for 19 years . |
| 17 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
| 18 | Common to much of the literature has been a notion … that these kids — and many others like them — have been trying to ‘ recover magically ’ territory , both physical and cultural , that they have lost and to appropriate in the same way territory that has never been theirs . |
| 19 | Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time . |
| 20 | In common with many bass amplification manufacturers , Trace Elliot have been trying over the last few years to build powerful , yet compact bass gear to ease the strain on the poor bass player 's back . |
| 21 | As for people in Leeds being sick of the Manc hype , people in Manchester are sick of the Manc hype and have been for as long as people from Leeds have been tramping across the moors in their flares and Kickers to buy ‘ God created Manchester ’ tops and to dance at the Haçienda . |
| 22 | Take advantage of bath-time when hands have been soaking in warm water to gently push back cuticles with an orange stick . |
| 23 | EVERYONE must be wondering what is happening on the Mid-Hants Railway , the ‘ Watercress Line ’ , having received the startling news from the pages of a contemporary magazine that volunteers have been resigning from the work force in substantial numbers . |
| 24 | For the last few years , increasing numbers of southern owners have been capitalising on the relative strength of property in the South . |
| 25 | The sights and sounds of a Red Indian Reservation have been reverberating through the pastoral tranquility of Gloucestershire . |
| 26 | A possible scenario for self-publishers is this : You have been meeting with other writers for some time . |
| 27 | More interestingly , sources say that HP is currently weighing a 20% stake in Taligent to cement the new relationship , while IBM brass have been meeting with HP officials at various locations around the US over the last few days firefighting for their support . |
| 28 | More recently , users and staff have been meeting at regional and national courses sponsored by the TUC which have examined the political and organisational issues about these centres and unemployment generally . |
| 29 | But were it not for the perceived economic might of a more unified Economic Community , the dozen or so nations of the Pacific Rim , who have been meeting in Australia , might not have bothered . |
| 30 | We thank you for those who have ministered your word to the church of St Leonard 's during the weeks when we have been meeting in the School for the Deaf ; so we thank you for John , Alan and Emily , for the readers and for those chaplains and ministers who worship with us . |