Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the world , local government has been moving increasingly towards two-tier systems in recent years — often under pressure from the needs of metropolitan areas for overall planning agencies ( Rowat 1980:1 — 3 ) . |
| 2 | For a while now the narrow house has been filling up with medical paraphernalia , with doctoring tackle . |
| 3 | Heavy snow falls will affect sport , but river has been fishing well with good catches of dace and roach from Conham , especially around the footbridge and Boardmill . |
| 4 | Use of Ingres products has been expanding rapidly in Eastern Europe over the past few years through local distributors in the Czech Republic , Hungary , Poland , Slovakia , and Slovenia , the company says , with customers including the Polish Central Statistical Office and the Stock Exchange in Budapest , Hungary . |
| 5 | ( It 's true , of course , that Sir Fred Hoyle has been writing recently about Earthly plagues that have originated in space , but he has devised an ingenious way of converting this objection into a virtue . |
| 6 | That is a helpful and positive scheme which has been developing successfully in recent years . |
| 7 | Presented by Michaela Strachan , the programme has been homing in on different varieties of animals and conservation projects in countries all around the world . |
| 8 | Crabby Bill , who has been running well in all-weather hurdle races at Lingfield Park — winning twice — made a satisfactory Flat comeback at Kempton Park . |
| 9 | However , it may pay to take a chance with SESAME ( nap 2.35 ) , who has been running creditably in top class events and could oblige at attractive odds . |
| 10 | However , the chasm between the pluralist and Marxist views has been narrowing encouragingly in recent years ( McLennan , 1999 ) . |
| 11 | In this machine , some of the work Unisys has been carrying out with academic partners such as Caltec , JPL and with French microkernel specialists Chorus Systemes , will come to light for the first time . |
| 12 | The debate about whether and how the universe began has been going on throughout recorded history . |
| 13 | I say metamorphosing because it is our firm intention to continue the natural development process which has been going on in recent years , rather than make any radical changes just because we are now a university . |
| 14 | It will produce a series of prototype versions of the Mach microkernel it has been working on with experimental extensions for real-time and high-trust portable working across a range of hardware architectures , especially non-shared memory supercomputers . |
| 15 | It will produce a series of prototype versions of the Mach microkernel it has been working on with experimental extensions for real-time and high-trust portable across a range of hardware architectures , especially non-shared memory supercomputers . |
| 16 | In the rural areas of Wales and Scotland the tradition of non-partisan elections continues in some areas , but even so the role of the parties has been growing consistently since local government reorganisation ( Gyford and James 1983:2 ; Keating and Midwinter 1983 ; 107 — 13 ) . |
| 17 | If he had been observing , he would have noticed that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been scoring heavily at Prime Minister 's Question Time — winning hands down . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'd been beavering away on Imaginary for a while but we never got the success we deserved through limited resources . |
| 19 | From these observations the task before the court on this appeal can be distilled in this form : the court is concerned to inquire as to the persons with respect to whom Parliament is presumed to have been legislating when using the expression , ‘ any person , ’ and in making that inquiry Parliament is to be taken to have been legislating only for British subjects or foreigners coming to the United Kingdom , unless the contrary is expressed ( which it is not here ) or is plainly implicit . |
| 20 | Troubles had been piling up in recent months as the owners struggled to restore the house 's reputation . |
| 21 | Searle was not the only person at this time to conclude that since the Lefevre Gallery had told Minton ‘ Moons are out ’ , he had been searching round for new solutions which visits abroad solved only temporarily . |
| 22 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 23 | Obviously Stirling had been lobbying hard for new blood . |
| 24 | A few hours earlier she had been grinding wearily at Latin prose composition , when she had caught a shocked glimpse of her pinched , haggard face in the mirror . |
| 25 | Wilde , she argued , was in a state of insanity owing to the shock to his self-esteem of prison , ‘ and the exposure of the abnormal and filthy practises which he had been indulging in with stable boys ’ . |
| 26 | Mr Michael Fallon , who is also schools minister , said it was an historic change which he had been working on with Catholic bishops since November . |
| 27 | Eventually the pair connected , and Knuckles presented Owens with a track he had been working on with Japanese musician Satoshi Tomii . |
| 28 | It was only on the second and third day after the tragedy that the family slowly began to realise how many other people had been sitting around in shocked disbelief at the news . |
| 29 | She 'd told him his wife , young Jo , had been carrying on with other men , other women , nuns , rapists , ex-Nazi war criminals , you name it . |
| 30 | By 1975 local expenditure represented over 20 per cent of GNP in Scandinavian countries and had been increasing substantially in other parts of Europe ( Newton 1980:8 — 9 ) . |