Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 2 | Although the college had been admitting female students in recent years , its outward appearance still succeeded in impressing the visitor with its austere and indefinably masculine grandeur . |
| 3 | As already explained , in the years since Chernobyl the nuclear industry had been spending increasing sums of money on publicity and advertising . |
| 4 | Again , I do n't know where they got their information from but I confirmed that the DEA had been running controlled deliveries through Cyprus while I was there and that its operations had been wide open from a security point of view . |
| 5 | Police said that their two accomplices arrested in Ireland had been carrying several addresses of safe houses in France . |
| 6 | Aplin had been asking many questions about Putt , not only in connection with the robberies but with the rape of Anna too . |
| 7 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |
| 8 | Until now , the organisers had been expecting 15,000 participants ( 10,000 competitors and 5,000 officials ) , and the Olympic village was constructed with this in mind . |
| 9 | Not unless the climber had been wearing hobnailed boots . |
| 10 | The authority had been hoping Heswallbased developers Dayglobe would buy the Grade Two listed property . |
| 11 | The authority had been hoping Heswallbased developers Dayglobe would buy the Grade Two listed property . |
| 12 | Gebrec had been wearing blue slacks yesterday morning . |
| 13 | Many people had been nursing faint hopes that the exhibition , which took Stephanie Barron five years to assemble , might be transferred to Berlin after Washington . |
| 14 | His lordship had been entertaining two guests , a young lady and gentleman , in the summerhouse , and had watched my father 's approach across the lawn bearing a much welcome tray of refreshments . |
| 15 | Miles had been dropping heavy hints about how difficult it was to get petrol and how he intended to use the Cortina ‘ for emergency uses only ’ . |
| 16 | For many years the Accounting Standards Committee ( the ASC ) of the accountancy bodies had been producing valuable Statements of Standard Accounting Practice ( SSAPs ) and had done its best to ensure that they were observed — not always successfully since the Statements had no statutory recognition . |
| 17 | The tin-mining towns of Camborne and Redruth on the north coast of Cornwall had been facing major redundancies since the 1985 plunge in tin prices . |
| 18 | The forest involved in the transaction had been losing substantial sums of money under Guyanese Government management . |
| 19 | Somalia said that its forces had been pursuing anti-government rebels . |
| 20 | The pilot had been flying spare parts to the European frontline when the 2,500 mile trip from Newfoundland ended . |
| 21 | Previous to the CITES ban on ivory , Japan had been buying 130 tonnes of ivory each year , which suggests a massive local demand for the new substitute . |
| 22 | This was in response to reports that Collor 's main political advisers had been using federal funds to solicit the votes of the 168 deputies needed to fend off the impeachment initiative . |
| 23 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 24 | Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas . |
| 25 | Lili had said inconsequentially that Syl had been chasing young girls for years , and my mother had asked her crossly how she knew . |
| 26 | Less innocent were the scandals such as that exposed in 1916 of Hospital 27 , where a crooked doctor had been providing bogus discharges from the army at several thousand francs a time . |
| 27 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 28 | Mitra attacked a secret visit by Ramos to Switzerland in mid-February , hinting that Ramos had been seeking foreign funds for his campaign . |
| 29 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 30 | However , the City had been expecting bad figures and the shares rose 15p to 239p . |