Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [v-ing] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Test kits to hand , Ian has been monitoring most of our tanks , with startling results . |
| 2 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 3 | The Metropolitan Museum has been examining some of its most treasured paintings with the aid of the latest technology , and it has come up with a result which confounds the hitherto accepted history of art . |
| 4 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 5 | Millions of parents have been saying this for months . |
| 6 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 7 | But few Japanese beverage companies yet make drinks-cans with tab openers that remain attached to the cans — even though companies in the US and Canada have been manufacturing these for almost 15 years . |
| 8 | Theologians have been arguing this for two thousand years … ’ |
| 9 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 10 | Probably , most people have been doing this for ages , but I ca n't remember seeing it , so if it helps anyone , great . |
| 11 | More recently , record company and music publishing A&R staff have been assessing much of the same talent from different standpoints . |
| 12 | Apparently the old man has been hammering this into them for weeks . ’ |
| 13 | Britain has been resisting much of this , but none too skilfully . |
| 14 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |
| 15 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 16 | Keyboard players have been doing this for years , but it 's a revelation to most guitarists . |
| 17 | And I think Peter 's been saying this for almost well since he 's come back anyway that , I ca n't work because the stock figures have not been updated . |
| 18 | While the employment rates of lone mothers have been falling those of married mothers have been rising . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd very much like to know , ’ he said , ‘ what Masklin has been doing these past few weeks … ’ |
| 20 | Gosse had been watching all in silence , his jaw clenched , his neck muscles taut . |
| 21 | Malvern had been struggling most of the way on the only wet and windy day in an otherwise idyllic week . |
| 22 | For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems . |
| 23 | In the clear conditions , anglers have been spotting many of the venue 's double-figure carp but they'ree not feeding , ’ he added . |
| 24 | Three year old son Andrew 's been eating more as Tom 's been ordered to lose weight . |
| 25 | Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer . |
| 26 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 27 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 28 | We would urge you very strongly to er put a deadline er on receipt of er further objections by tomorrow sir but some of these proofs have been missing all of the discussion and they are literally months past their original fixture date . |