Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Administration Centre has been expanding over this first year . |
| 2 | With the same courage she showed in the playground , Howey has been competing in senior international events since the age of 15 , winning the world and European junior championships as well as senior bronze and silver medals at world and European level . |
| 3 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman is aware of the fact that unemployment has been rising in most European Community countries and that it is higher than it was a year ago in every EFTA and G7 country . |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 5 | Margaret has been teaching in that particular home for five years . |
| 6 | It is tough on criminals and supportive of police , and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now . " |
| 7 | Mr Portillo has been meeting with two leading Conservative Councillors from Oxfordshire to discuss the impact of the Poll Tax on the County . |
| 8 | But over the last twenty years a ‘ new long-stay ’ population has been accumulating on acute psychiatric wards . |
| 9 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 10 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 11 | SEL has been working for some two years on producing French versions of GEC 's technical specifications — an enormous project . |
| 12 | Graydon has been working with several large UK organisations on a remedial approach to corporate risk assessment |
| 13 | It will be presumed that death has occurred if the Policyholder has been missing for 90 consecutive days and sufficient evidence is provided to support the conclusion that death was caused by accident . |
| 14 | The SDIO has been concentrating on limited ground-based systems . |
| 15 | Olivia Ensor ( Mrs Coolidge ) has been exhibiting in various local art exhibitions . |
| 16 | The National Front has been suffering from two other developments on the French political scene . |
| 17 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |
| 18 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 19 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 20 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 21 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 22 | Population ageing is operating at two distinct levels : societal and within the older age groups itself . |
| 23 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 24 | Any sizable successful herbivorous group surely can not have been relying on one such geographically limited group of seed-plants to the exclusion of all others . |
| 25 | Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings . |
| 26 | I think he must have been putting on all that business with his ankle , just to gain sympathy . ’ |
| 27 | What could he have been doing in that little field but reconnoitring the back premises of the house at the far end — even breaking in , there had been burglaries lately . |
| 28 | You could have been making for any one of them in a boat . |
| 29 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 30 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |