Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] 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 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Louise has been doing a very limited amount of training because of her exams , ’ said Charles Stuart , her father and coach . |
| 7 | Even ( some might say especially ) in purely trading terms , Britain has been paying a very high price for her membership of the EEC . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , he had been using a slightly different definition of a black hole . |
| 15 | Most analysts had been expecting a more gradual approach to the complex rationalisation required by the Zeneca split and the recession 's effects on trading . |
| 16 | We had been expecting a much harder game but the Welsh were never in it , thanks to our forwards ’ control . ’ |
| 17 | The inflation figure confounded economic analysts , most of whom had been predicting a much smaller reduction . |
| 18 | Even though they were retired , they had been leading a very active life . |
| 19 | Now , as he waited for his flight , he felt exhausted , as if he had been playing an enormously difficult game of poker for high stakes . |
| 20 | ‘ Simply to tell you that I 've been having a most interesting conversation . ’ |
| 21 | WHAT I do know is that people like Havel have been getting a little impatient with those relishing pieces appearing lately in the American press that say , roughly : ‘ Right , you guys over there have had your romantic Ruritanian fun and games with revolution and dancing in the streets . |
| 22 | ‘ We have been getting a very positive response , ’ she says . |
| 23 | The legal opinion obtained by CPRE and the Council for National Parks from Professor Francis Jacobs , one of the leading authorities on EEC law , makes it clear that both MAFF and DoE have been taking an unduly restrictive view in adopting their stance . |
| 24 | In recent years , independent financial advisers ( IFAs ) have been playing an increasingly important role in the mortgage arena . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ Oh — I was just wondering , you know , because my skin 's been getting a little dry recently . ’ |