Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offer was accepted with alacrity and Harry has been writing these little vignettes for the paper ever since . |
| 2 | Geoff Boucher has been running this unofficial sanctuary for more than four years . |
| 3 | Wetland cultivation during Classic Maya times has been attracting much archaeological attention in recent years . |
| 4 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 5 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 6 | Bernard Dixon has been digesting some bizarre eating habits |
| 7 | I am told he has been preparing some appropriate acts . |
| 8 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
| 9 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |
| 11 | Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see . |
| 12 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 13 | The product that has n't been absorbed is causing these unsightly specks . |
| 14 | So she must have been wearing some funny shoes to get corns on |
| 15 | By now the coroner should have been singing some lewd song at the top of his voice , bellowing abuse at the landlord , or urging Athelstan to come back to his house in Cheapside . |
| 16 | The listings from early modern England show that up to 8 per cent of households of over-sixty-year-olds might have been receiving some economic support through lodgers . |
| 17 | Agnes said the words to herself , her mind telling her that this was the end of June and her sister must have been carrying this dreadful secret since … when ? |
| 18 | Kammerer must have been imposing such intense selection on such a large sample of eggs that he was able to filter out the odd egg that carried the remnant complex of genes still present in the species ' gene pool at very low frequencies . |
| 19 | He said of Lynda Chalker , Foreign Office Minister responsible for foreign aid programmes : ‘ All she is doing is giving these poor people the chance to breed more children who will suffer the same horrible fate as their parents — death by starvation . ’ |
| 20 | But the market seems to have been generating some big increases for certain quite junior City people — notably in foreign exchange and swaps . |
| 21 | The Midlands ' shop stewards knew it was only a question of time before the strike affected supplies to their own plants and those in the South , jeopardising the recovery plan which had been producing such vast improvements in performance . |
| 22 | However , she pointed out that as far back as 1980 , the Sports Council had been recommending all governing bodies to charge a minimum subscription of £2.00 per person . |
| 23 | It seems that for some time the firm had been issuing such promissory notes and having them endorsed by its local bank in Bihać ( where , incidentally , the partisans held the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Liberation of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 24 | GPA had been developing such new forms of finance , he said , most notably with the launch of ALPS92–1 — the first publicly rated aircraft fund . |
| 25 | Mining operations for oil-shale and coal had been providing much new information which showed that the original maps of Central Scotland were inaccurate in places . |
| 26 | He had been conducting this little enterprise since the age of twelve , wearing false moustaches and passing for sixteen . |
| 27 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 28 | The results of the Concorde trial came as ‘ a considerable shock ’ , he says , particularly to those who had been expecting some positive outcome , however small . |
| 29 | He had been reading some fine sentiments in a little book of Carlyle 's , his Heroes and Hero-Worship . |
| 30 | These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres . |