Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expenses cashier Fiona Smith has been collecting the small change when people have returned from overseas business trips and holidays over the last six months . |
| 2 | As you 've been reading this book God has been telling the Holy Spirit to make the bits that are especially important for you to stick in your mind . |
| 3 | Joe has been learning the great man 's speeches and studying his mannerisms , but does he really look likely Winston at all ? |
| 4 | Britain 's Vivienne Westwood has been taking the historical fantasy tablets for some time . |
| 5 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 6 | She has been spreading the Comic Relief message since she went to see a Comic Relief project for homeless young people in London two years ago . |
| 7 | One of the solictors acting for another trustee says that it appears Mrs Hilali has been living the good life . |
| 8 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 10 | The Regional Council has been considering the likely impact of a fixed link since the early 1980s , and in 1984 a study commissioned from consultants Bechtel-France resulted in a comprehensive planning strategy . |
| 11 | There has been one very disturbing factor in keeping this particular type of fish , and that has been discovering the incredible cruelty that is sometimes used in order to increase the sale of them . |
| 12 | Karl Hammond has been reading the Royal Society 's report on risk |
| 13 | The position of the Dip.HE courses offered by the colleges and institutes of higher education has been causing the Welsh Office some concern because some of the units in specific subject areas which make up the courses have been recruiting small numbers of students : in 1980–1 , for example , between 30 and 40 per cent of them were enrolling fewer than eight students . |
| 14 | The survey , described briefly in ref. 1 , has been searching the southern sky for millisecond and other low-luminosity pulsars since July 1991 , using the Parkes 64-m radiotelescope at 430MHz . |
| 15 | He has been searching the dark realm , a moving shadow flowing through the looping Interiors ; dark , dimlit , floodlit . |
| 16 | Ms Jerry Hall , the Texan mannequin delivered of her third child , has been articulating the deep relationship she shares with Mr Michael Jagger , the confectionery-loving vocal stylist with the Rolling Stones ( a once popular beat ensemble , M' lud ) . |
| 17 | Sir James has been lobbying the prime minister for a scheme to use official aid money to buy up Third World debt , sell off the principal , and swap the right to interest payments for a lease on tropical rain forests . |
| 18 | It seems that he has been using the free post to send out quantities — I do not know how many — of his so-called ’ Annual Report ’ . |
| 19 | Charlton has been watching the teenage winger recently but England boss Graham Taylor has handed Froggatt an Under-21 debut in Spain tonight . |
| 20 | Brintons company has been manufacturing the finest quality of woven carpets for over 200 years , and it is a private company which specializes in producing Axminster and Wilton carpets in which enters a high percentage of wool / . |
| 21 | Convincing evidence that animals actually do operate this way comes from James Serpell of the University of Cambridge ( Animal Behaviour , vol 30 , p 1244 ) , who has been studying the aggressive behaviour of nine species of tropical parrots of the genus Trichoglossus . |
| 22 | This is the question which , in recent days , has been preoccupying the Supreme Court . |
| 23 | When the same scene happens night after night , his mother realizes that she has been doing the wrong thing , so instead she puts him to bed no matter how long or hard he cries . |
| 24 | Dougherty has been doing the basic research and clinical studies for the past five years . |
| 25 | Mr Beacham said he has been pressing the British Legion to put Stephen 's name on the role of honour . |
| 26 | So Mrs so far has been hogging the whole show , is that right ? |
| 27 | China has been observing the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the first opium war . |
| 28 | Uniao Nacional para a Independência total de Angola ( UNITA — Union for the Total Independence of Angola , Jonas Savimbi l. ) , a rebel nationalist group backed , financially and militarily , by South Africa and the United States , which has been fighting the MPLA-PT government since independence ; Movement for Socialist Unity in Angola ( MUSA , formed by leaders from the three mainstream nationalist movements in 1977 ) ; in July 1990 the creation was announced of the Angolan Social Democratic Party ( PSDA , an offshoot of MUSA , Moises André Lima l. ) ; the Frente de Libertaçao do Enclave de Cabinda ( FLEC — The Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave , Francisco Xavier Lubota pres. ) and the National Union for the Liberation of Cabinda ( UNLC ) fight for the secession of Cabinda district . |
| 29 | They claim Granada Television has been advertising the two-hour film Hostages as the ‘ full story for the first time ’ . |
| 30 | Digital Equipment France SA and Paris 's showpiece impressionist museum , the converted railway station Musee d'Orsay , has been demonstrating the first piece of their collaboration on a worthy prototype application of multimedia technology , ‘ Learn to See . ’ |