Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [v-ing] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wetland cultivation during Classic Maya times has been attracting much archaeological attention in recent years . |
| 2 | OVER the last two weeks special couriers have been delivering mysterious brown paper packages to literary editors around London . |
| 3 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 4 | THE Bill Wells Octet has been exploring some unusual stylistic directions in the context of the Scottish jazz scene , but this appearance did not live up to expectations . |
| 5 | Previously Gould had been making other extraordinary discoveries from Darwin 's collection . |
| 6 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Over recent years , environmental concerns have been driving genuine environmental improvements across a wide range of processes and products . |
| 9 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 10 | Bernard Dixon has been digesting some bizarre eating habits |
| 11 | For three or four years now , Mrs Mandelbaum had been giving free English classes in her home . |
| 12 | The offer was accepted with alacrity and Harry has been writing these little vignettes for the paper ever since . |
| 13 | A government supermarket in New Delhi has been selling 10 solar cookers every day for the past few months for about £20 each . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A great many people have been getting good local press publicity for Medau during the summer . |
| 16 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 17 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 18 | M. Grassa has been producing outstanding white wine from the local grape varieties for many years . |
| 19 | Geoff Boucher has been running this unofficial sanctuary for more than four years . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | It was pointed out that from the early '60s onwards some parts of British manufacturing had been facing increased economic difficuIties , in particular because of heightened international competition , which firms had been adopting strategies to counter . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Neither he nor his partner was asked about family backgrounds , possible problems , or whether any of the children had been presenting any unusual symptoms . |
| 24 | The mujahedin have been using US-supplied Chinese and Egyptian-made rockets in recent years to shell Kabul , but there has been no previous evidence of Western rockets being given to the guerrillas . |
| 25 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 26 | ‘ It can not be denied that in the face of recession , publishers have been exploring all possible avenues for book sales . ’ |
| 27 | A team of qualified volunteers have been providing free short- term counselling — generally six to eight weekly sessions — with waiting times kept to a minimum . |
| 28 | The Co Londonderry school has been promoting greater European awareness since September and has arranged two foreign trips to mark their continued efforts . |
| 29 | William IV died shortly afterwards and it has been written that , a search being instituted , it was found that that bluff and breezy monarch had been using this unique ancient artifact as a shaving mug ! |
| 30 | Cheryl 's been saying some odd things . |