Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 2 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 3 | The fine drizzle that has been falling all afternoon has not been enough to stop the match between Scotland and Ireland , but enough to keep the crowds away . |
| 4 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 5 | Miaco were a well-known operator of DC-3s and other types out of the Island and had been overhauling radial piston engines as another facet of their business for over twenty years . |
| 6 | ‘ You have to remember they are the current league champions and had been training three nights a week . |
| 7 | I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’ |
| 8 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 9 | These became , in fact , the almost exclusive preserve of Hammer Films , a company that had been making skilfully-marketed pictures with an eye on the US B-movie market since the late 1940s . |
| 10 | One big star , Billy Ray Cyrus , was invented by the marketing men last year and has been playing more or less bubblegum pop . |
| 11 | Robyn 's mother , Vera Williams , of Wilton Village , who is now looking after Penny , said since her daughter had her baby she had suffered postnatal depression and had been taking various prescribed drugs . |
| 12 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 13 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's Dieter 's section that 's been handling this , so I 'll let him fill in the background . ’ |
| 15 | The tank has an undergravel filter and a internal filter and has been running problem-free for about four months . |