Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she has been eating a very large quantity of food and has recently embarked on a calorie-counting slimming programme . |
| 2 | While the hon. Gentleman has been travelling up and down the country assuring the training and enterprise councils of his support , the hon. Member for Fife , Central , his fellow Front-Bench spokesman on these matters , has been singing a somewhat different tune . |
| 3 | From the Blake Babies to ‘ Hey Babe ’ , JULIANA HATFIELD has been crafting a deceptively sweet , unnervingly direct antidote to foxcore screaming . |
| 4 | The Silkience Hair Range , well known for its self-adjusting formula , has been given a completely new look . |
| 5 | Mr Marian Calfa is pleading for more time on the grounds that he has been given an even longer list . |
| 6 | Meanwhile in other areas of life , even church life , professionalization and training has been given an increasingly high profile . |
| 7 | She wore a faintly sly and greedy look , like a child who has been promised a rather disreputable treat if it 's good . |
| 8 | The news was welcomed yesterday by the End Conscription Campaign , which has been running an increasingly effective protest against national service on the grounds that servicemen are used to oppress the country 's majority population . |
| 9 | The news was welcomed yesterday by the End Conscription Campaign , which has been running an increasingly effective protest against national service on the grounds that servicemen are used to oppress the country 's majority population . |
| 10 | ‘ Louise has been doing a very limited amount of training because of her exams , ’ said Charles Stuart , her father and coach . |
| 11 | A LASMO-operated group has been awarded a highly prospective block in Yemen , adjacent to major discoveries . |
| 12 | Thus from a very narrow and restricted expression there has been drawn a very wide and unrestricted principle , all based on the assumed purpose of Parliament and the perceived absurdity of seeking to effect it by the language in which Parliament actually chose to express it . |
| 13 | Even ( some might say especially ) in purely trading terms , Britain has been paying a very high price for her membership of the EEC . |
| 14 | Along with many aspects of Society organisation , the Teacher Training Course is always under review , Last year , to offset the Sports Council 's view that our training takes too long , we embarked upon Course II , which has been following a more intensive schedule . |
| 15 | Wilkinson , who might have been sporting a more cheerful expression this morning but for a number of glaring misses by Eric Cantona , said : ‘ Whipping the people responsible is not the answer . |
| 16 | Had he been there earlier he might have been asked a less direct question . |
| 17 | He had his widowed mother living with him and two sisters who had to get husbands ; both Mr James and Constanza say that it would have been considered an almost monstrous act of selfishness if the prince had insisted on marrying one of the Montecativi or Roccarosa girls for their beaux yeux . |
| 18 | In my view this case provides a dramatic vindication of the decision to consult Hansard ; had your Lordships not agreed to do so the result would have been to place a very heavy burden of taxation upon a large number of persons which Parliament never intended to impose . |
| 19 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |
| 20 | Somebody 's actually got to do the appointing if you have the , the er er er i i independent members and I do n't think it 's u is unreasonable for my Right Honourable Friend to say that the Home Secretary should do that er provided that he is not seen to have been taking an overtly political view . |
| 21 | Dudley Ford had his suspicions and the police seemed to have been doing a pretty thorough job on him … but Doug Wilson believed that Shergold lacked the nerve and she was inclined to agree with him . |
| 22 | Also in the last months before the war Lloyd George appears to have been contemplating a more direct assault upon the Poor Law which had been almost unchanged by the Reports of the Royal Commission in February 1909 . |
| 23 | However , he had been using a slightly different definition of a black hole . |
| 24 | All in all , Mo had been given a pretty torrid time by the nation 's voters . |
| 25 | Mildred , however , had been given a rather dim-witted tabby because there had n't been quite enough black ones to go round . |
| 26 | She murmured that Nicola Sharpe had told her editor that she had been given a really good story by someone in the Drugs Squad . |
| 27 | Before the first day of the project , both groups had been given a very general outline of the activities in which they would be involved . |
| 28 | His eyes seemed to fasten on her immediately and Maggie had the irritated feeling that he had been given a very uncomplimentary description of her . |
| 29 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 30 | It came about because , after an early night in the same bed as that slept in by the Prince , Dr Johnson , who had a cold and had been rendered a little deaf by it , ‘ spoke of Prince Charles being here , and asked Mrs Macdonald , ‘ Who was with him ? |