Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House UnAmerican Activities Committee had been sitting before McCarthy and it went on after him and in the long run this damaged more people . |
| 2 | The whole South Sussex team had been driving round the country in a vast aluminium horse box , evidently the latest thing in America , and Kevin had provided each player with four top-class ponies . |
| 3 | The Betting Shop association had been looking into the circumstances surrounding the horse 's win at Lingfield two weeks ago . |
| 4 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 5 | A forest fire had been raging in the east all day and a giant red glow was silhouetting the peaks beyond Portoferraio . |
| 6 | Just previous to our visit to this latter small harbour a well known German smuggling vessel had been coopering off the coast and local boats had been landing cases of spirits . |
| 7 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 8 | AAIB investigation showed that the main rotor drive had been running for a period with the chain displaced downwards on the large sprocket ( ie.e in the axial direction of the sprocket ) approximately half a tooth . |
| 9 | It was clear that Thomas Grenfell had made more than his share of mistakes , it seemed that The Fine Leather Trading Company had been overspending on labour and without the expected turnover in goods moved and sold . |
| 10 | The vessel Yeremi had been riding in scant tens of seconds earlier erupted , disintegrated . |
| 11 | In him she had found something her Libran soul had been searching for . |
| 12 | Coun. Grant said he and Colburn parish council had been pressing for improved pedestrian safety at this point . |
| 13 | To offer a perhaps extreme example , the Gloucestershire clothiers who celebrated the completing in 1779 – 82 of the Stroudwater Canal had been trying since 1730 to intercept the coal supplies moving down the Severn from the pits of the Midlands . |
| 14 | The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger . |
| 15 | In addition the gas industry had been investing in expensive pipeline and other transportation systems to import gas from Canada , Mexico and Algeria , in anticipation of a continuing supply shortfall which the Natural Gas Policy Act effectively removed , in the short term at least . |
| 16 | September sunshine had been shining on it ever since Leyton . |
| 17 | Well they were , the ward committee had been seeking for a , a candidate , but I had no opposition at that time at all . |
| 18 | The health authority had been looking for a site since 1989 but found difficulty in obtaining suitable premises in terms of locality , accessibility and size of ground floor accommodation . |
| 19 | The bull market had been raging for more than five years in the US . |
| 20 | In a way , it was a waste of the cover story Maxim had been kiting for his trip to St Louis , but if it was a step forward … |
| 21 | The Interior Ministry announced on May 22 that increasing unrest was the preliminary stage of a military coup which the banned Islamic fundamentalist Nahda movement had been preparing since 1988 . |
| 22 | Underlying this change in public consciousness were fundamental changes in women 's lives : family size had been shrinking since early in the century ; and more women , especially married women , were in paid work . |
| 23 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |