Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years AI has been calling for an independent judicial inquiry to investigate the pattern of disputed killings by security forces in Northern Ireland in order to help prevent unlawful killings . |
| 2 | STEPHEN HENDRY has been living under a Fatal Attraction nightmare since September . |
| 3 | Another man has been existing in a tiny cell in Georgia for 20 years — waiting to die . |
| 4 | Since you left me so abruptly , my mind has been teeming with a whole variety of things I 'd like to do to you . ’ |
| 5 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 6 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 7 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 8 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 9 | on the other hand , while the CA has been operating as a separate agency for two years , 24 per cent of the NIC specialists who completed the survey were unaware of its existence . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Roger Kelly , who coordinates its work explains : ‘ For 15 years this place has been going through a slow , organic evolution . |
| 13 | Almost from the outset , the measure provoked fierce ethical debate , and while the 12 nations of the European Community continued to grapple with commercial aspects of biotechnology , the 26-nation Council of Europe has been working toward an international convention on human rights questions in bioethics . |
| 14 | Sony has been working on a new Walkman which allows you to watch films as you go around . |
| 15 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 16 | Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 . |
| 17 | I hope your mind has been working in an expansive way and that you have thought more about your future . |
| 18 | HOPES were fading last night for an Anglesey man who has been missing in an Alaskan wilderness for five days . |
| 19 | Yet Jennifer in recent months has been growing through a difficult spell in the growing up process , particularly mentally . |
| 20 | Provided that the sea has been eroding for a sufficient length of time a negative movement of base level results in a raised beach , consisting as a rule of an eroded platform of solid rocks with or without a covering of beach deposits . |
| 21 | Hamlet the out-of-work thespian pig has been appearing in a weekly strip in ‘ The Stage ’ since 1988 . |
| 22 | Lasagna explains : ‘ The West has been behaving in a miserly way towards the Russians . |
| 23 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 24 | The same applies to anyone , tall or short , who has been dieting for a lengthy period already , and generally to those who are only a few pounds overweight . |
| 25 | ‘ People see Romania and Albania in the media all the time now but Poland has been suffering for a long time and people are still very much in need of our help , ’ she said . |
| 26 | THE list of processes thought to occur abiotically at the Earth 's surface has been shrinking on a yearly basis . |
| 27 | The experts say that for a woman over about 40 , SERPS is definitely going to be better , and if she has been paying into a contracted out PP scheme up to that time , she should change over then . |
| 28 | Harriet Ryley has been talking to an organic farmer who believes in putting the environment before profits . |
| 29 | The film has been showing to an empty room . |
| 30 | Khalid Fakhro , director of the Marine Emergency Mutual Aid Centre in Bahrain , told New Scientist this week that 2000 barrels of oil ( half previous estimates ) has been flowing from a war-damaged platform in the Iranian Nowruz field every day since the end of January . |