1. Maria Harris has been staying in a rented flat since returning to Liverpool.

2. We have stayed at this hotel a couple of times before.

3. With their win yesterday, Italy have moved into second place in the table.
4. As house prices in the cities have risen, people have been moving into the countryside.
5. All day, the police has been stopping motorists to question them about the accident.
6. Good, the noise has stopped I can start concentrating on my work again.
7. I haven't read any of Dickens' novels.
8. I have been reading this book on astrophysics for hours and I'm still only on page 6.
9. Dr Fletcher has been giving the same lecture to students for the last ten years.
10. Mr Goldman has given nearly a million pounds to the charity this year.
11. I did 20 lengths of the pool today. I haven't swim that far since I was at school.
12. I have been swimming and I feel exhausted.
13. In recent years, Brazilian companies have been putting a lot of money into developing advanced
technology.
14. The South African coal company have put the Calverton Mine up for sale.
15. An important file has disappeared from my office.
16. Plants and vegetables have been disappearing from my garden since we had new neighbours.

It's remarkable to think that since 1950 influenza (1)_ has been claiming___ (claim) more than 50,000
lives in this country, and in 1957 alone around 6,000 people (2)__ have been dying___ (die). But over the
last 20 years we at the Centre (3) _have been making____(make) considerable progress on understanding
the illness. We (4) _have been producing___(produce) over a hundred books and articles reporting the
results of our research and in 1995 they (5) __have been awarding___ (award) the Nobel Prize for
medicine to one of my colleagues. In our more recent work we _have been looking___(6) (look) into the
effects of influenza on heart disease and we (7) have also been exploring (also explore) a possible link
between climate change and the recent increase in the number of cases of influenza. It is a tragedy that the
government (8) __has been making___ (make) this decision now.

The previous government (1) .....has been investing............... (invest) huge amounts of money into the
Centre and I think it's terrible that the present government (2) ...has been announcing..... (announce) this
cut when the number of cases of influenza (3).....has been increasing.... ....... (increase). The Centre
(4) ......has been running............. (run) successfully for many years. But this decision is just typical of this
government. It (5) ...has been neglecting ... (neglect) health research ever since it was elected, and (6)
....has been cutting..... (cut) back on spending on science generally. Although the government says that
the cut is necessary because of the recent world economic problems, I
...have been founding... (find) evidence that they (8) ....have been planning........... (plan) this for some
time. I have been speaking (speak) to the Minister about this yesterday and (10) ....have also been
writing........ (also write) to the Prime Minister demanding that the decision should be reversed.