Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [v-ing] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 5 | Bernard Dixon has been digesting some bizarre eating habits |
| 6 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cheryl 's been saying some odd things . |
| 9 | Trials of state-of-the-art technology to monitor air quality in and around Wilton have been producing some interesting data . |
| 10 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |