Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The playgroup , at Cam in Gloucestershire , has been meeting at the United Reform chapel in the village for 10 years . |
| 2 | Our environment reporter Harriet Ryley has been looking at the changing attitude to what we throw away and how we deal with it . |
| 3 | And PC Week has been looking at the pre-release development kit for Windows NT , shipping this week , and finds that the new NT File System is not yet complete , and neither are the security features that are tied to it . |
| 4 | A tradesman who has been ringing at the front door for several minutes gives up and goes away . |
| 5 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 6 | Retail price maintenance still being lawful in the case of books , the publisher might well include the recommended retail price on the cover of the book ( or in an advertisement ) , only to be surprised subsequently to learn that a retailer has been selling at a different price . |
| 7 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success . |
| 8 | He has been working at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow since 1980 , but has now decided to move to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the new year . |
| 9 | In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse . |
| 10 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 11 | The group had been drinking at a nearby pub in Uckington , Glos . |
| 12 | You will also receive half your husband 's graduated pension and all of his additional pension if he contributed to SERPS , so long as this would not take your pension above the maximum you could have had if you had been earning at the upper earnings limit throughout . |
| 13 | He had been writing at the big desk , and had come round it to examine the patient . |
| 14 | They had been staying at a 16th century chateau near Compeigne . |
| 15 | But she said Lilian had been working at the old people 's home just down the road . |
| 16 | As she had come round the corner of the house from putting her bicycle in the old stable block , Inspector Blakelock had been standing at the front door almost as if he were waiting for her . |
| 17 | Robin-Anne had been staring at the dark sea , but now she turned her big eyes back to me . |
| 18 | He wished that he could have listened to their conversation , but he would not have made much of it if he had been sitting at the next table . |
| 19 | Adele Venetz , the sister that Wayne always thought of as the quiet one , had been sitting at the big rolling-out table as he 'd entered the restaurant kitchen . |
| 20 | Levels of intermarriage , in the first place , varied considerably from republic to republic and from nationality to nationality ; and although the proportion of ethnically mixed families at the national and republican level might have been increasing , it did not necessarily follow that the incidence of intermarriage between each of the major nationalities had been increasing at a similar rate . |
| 21 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 22 | Oh I du n no , I 've been looking at a few , not that probably , not in the top ten |
| 23 | We 've been looking at the contrasting features of these two . ’ |
| 24 | IN view of all the talk about a resumption of political talks , I 've been looking at the last word of the Ulster Unionists on the subject , delivered just before the plug was pulled last October . |
| 25 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 26 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 27 | But just as these new politics have been developing at the local level , so too we need new theories and new concepts to take account of them . |
| 28 | In Chapters 3 and 4 we have been looking at the major groups of institutions that participate in the financial system . |
| 29 | I have been looking at the Labour party document for health in Scotland , ’ A |
| 30 | I have been looking at the following : two very ‘ liquid ’ liquid acrylics are Winsor & Newton Designer 's Liquid Acrylic Colours and the new ACP ArtistColour Professional by Rotring . |