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The part of sentence "have been substituting" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used when talking about something that has happened and is continuing to happen in the present moment. Example: "I have been substituting daily the past three weeks while the teacher is on maternity leave."
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At the same time that blue-chip companies have been substituting repurchases for dividends, the number of unprofitable companies has grown markedly.
And Japan has yet to recover fully from the withering effects of the 2008 global financial crisis.Japanese companies have been substituting capital for labour for two decades, causing the overall number of hours worked to drop, writes Richard Katz of the Oriental Economist, a newsletter.
Nowadays strips of composite materials have been substituting these last ones, but even if the column is surely strengthened, the aesthetic result can be unsatisfactory.
Recently, microbial enzymes have been substituting those from other sources and might now account for almost 90% of the total market (Illanes, 2008).
So to some extent Americans have been substituting lower wages for lost jobs -- either by accepting lower wages at their current place of employment, or getting the boot and settling for lower wages elsewhere.
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Dvorak said Lloris "should have been substituted.
8 was rumoured to have been substituted for live coals?
"The player should have been substituted," he said.
Steve seems to have been substituted at half-time, while Parfait came on for the second half.
Gerald Rothstein added: "Smaller planes have been substituted for larger ones on virtually all routes.
It has not so far been found to have been substituted for beef or any other ingredient in the UK.
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