Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fear that its place at the cutting edge of environmental radicalism has been taking by groups such as Earth First . |
| 2 | The Universal Component System application development environment has been shipping since March 1992 at $3,500 to $10,000 . |
| 3 | The Universal Component System application development environment has been shipping since March 1992 at $3,500 to $10,000 . |
| 4 | In an experiment carried out at Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1989 , microscopic floating ocean plants ( phytoplankton ) were taken from the nearby bay and brought into the laboratory , where they were subjected to levels of ultra-violet radiation estimated to be equivalent to the amount of ultra-violet being transmitted through the ozone hole which has been developing in Antarctica each spring in recent years . |
| 5 | LINNET has been running since May 1990 and currently has 16 members , plus the three members of the technical team . |
| 6 | The firm has been campaigning since November 1991 to receive results at the same time as the Japanese press — a privilege denied it because it is not a member of the Tokyo Stock Exchange press club , where securities companies post earnings announcements in members ' pigeon-holes . |
| 7 | He has been working with Wigan Metropolitan Council 's industrial history officer , Mike Haddon . |
| 8 | With the University of California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena , Unisys has been working on Intel-based five by five Hypercube hubs , which can be clustered together , either in-cabinet or externally , connected through JPL 's Hyperswitch firmware and front-ended by a serial fibre optic link . |
| 9 | It has been standing in water all day , and it has been well scraped before it came out this evening . |
| 10 | It has been occurring on lines one , two and the machine . |
| 11 | Marjorie Thomas , 35 , who has been waiting since August 1989 for surgery on an eye condition , said the claims are no consolation . |
| 12 | It is as much as the Soviet Union has been spending on vodka each month . |
| 13 | She 'd been living in England such a long time , of course , it was a bit too free and easy over there . |
| 14 | If we had scored five or six more goals which the statistics prove was possible , then we would have been going to Sydney next year . |
| 15 | I had been looking through Situations Vacant in the local newspaper : ‘ Secretarial assistance required … |
| 16 | Then Duncan 's son Malcolm , who had been sheltering in England all this time , joined forces with the Earl of Northumbria and , with Edward the Confessor 's approval , invaded Scotland in 1057 . |
| 17 | The current phase of the debate had been developing since January 1992 when the country 's veteran leader , Deng Xiaoping , had used a tour of the special enterprise zones in southern China as an opportunity to praise the free market as a key mechanism of economic growth [ see p. 38722 ] . |
| 18 | Supported by the local community , he had probably been selected by them , for his appointment by the Company included a note that he had been teaching since Michaelmas 1533 . |
| 19 | Virgin had been dabbling in West Indian music for three years , and again it was Chris Blackwell and Island who had been the inspiration for Virgin 's involvement . |
| 20 | Lukic looked a lot better by the end of the night , plucking out a few high balls as happily as Seaman had been doing for Arse all night . |
| 21 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 22 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 23 | Certain British officers had been friendly with Saw , while Military Intelligence had been indicating since May that Saw was planning to seize power . |
| 24 | Citibank 's Art Advisory Services had been bidding at £4.4 million . |
| 25 | The company had been working with DBase III , but without much joy , simply because of the system 's relative inflexibility and technical complexity . |
| 26 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 27 | The eight-year-old Ian had been talking in class all through a painting lesson . |
| 28 | She had been fleeing from winter all of her life . |
| 29 | It had been pouring with rain all day , and half the yard was a quagmire . |
| 30 | I 've been thinking about convert these speakers this time |