Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] has been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal , said by sources to be ‘ very valuable to Pyramid , ’ will also allow ICL to OEM the company 's high-end MIServer ES machines — this follows on from an informal Pyramid-ICL sales teaming that has been operating in the UK for the last few months . |
| 2 | A five-member UN war crimes commission that has been sifting through mountains of documents submitted by governments and non-governmental bodies is building a computerised database of reported atrocities , accompanied by names of victims , alleged perpetrators and witnesses . |
| 3 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 4 | There 's some worry about something — either he 's not going to be able to do the work , someone 's going to laugh or has been laughing at him , he does n't think the teacher 's going to understand , and it 's generally a terrible problem first thing in the morning to get him to get ready and get to school . |
| 5 | Often the pilot is lost and has been worrying for the past half an hour about where he is . |