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 | In the past few days shoppers have been paying one last visit to the store , many angered by a trend which has seen Liverpool stripped of many of its landmark shops . |
| 3 | OVER the last two weeks special couriers have been delivering mysterious brown paper packages to literary editors around London . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Previously Gould had been making other extraordinary discoveries from Darwin 's collection . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | if Central South had been running twenty five years ago our sport would have been dominated by the name of one man … jockey Terry Biddlecombe one of Gloucestershire 's most famous and favourite of sporting sons … |
| 11 | If Barnes is this irreplaceable in the nation 's best club side it again raises the question of what England have been missing all these years . |
| 12 | The world price for tin is high and so companies have been opening new larger mines in Cornwall . |
| 13 | Over recent years , environmental concerns have been driving genuine environmental improvements across a wide range of processes and products . |
| 14 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 15 | Bernard Dixon has been digesting some bizarre eating habits |
| 16 | For three or four years now , Mrs Mandelbaum had been giving free English classes in her home . |
| 17 | The offer was accepted with alacrity and Harry has been writing these little vignettes for the paper ever since . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A government supermarket in New Delhi has been selling 10 solar cookers every day for the past few months for about £20 each . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A great many people have been getting good local press publicity for Medau during the summer . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 24 | M. Grassa has been producing outstanding white wine from the local grape varieties for many years . |
| 25 | Geoff Boucher has been running this unofficial sanctuary for more than four years . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's Fergie , ’ someone said , and within seconds Charles and Diana were left staring at an empty patch of snow where a moment before dozens of photographers had been elbowing one another for the best position . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Neither he nor his partner was asked about family backgrounds , possible problems , or whether any of the children had been presenting any unusual symptoms . |