Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Test kits to hand , Ian has been monitoring most of our tanks , with startling results . |
| 2 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 3 | It was alleged the car had been doing 50-60mph on the wrong side of the road . |
| 4 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 5 | ‘ Fan have been growing bored with the sex and drugs and rock and roll syndrome . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A Planning Committee had been meeting weekly in 1969 , but the College had not wanted to be too rigid in imposing teaching methods . |
| 8 | One family tea-time , when Auntie had been sitting silent for some time , she said : " It 's lucky there 's never anyone left in those offices at night . " |
| 9 | Rovers had been feeling better on Monday , November 1 , when the F.A . |
| 10 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 11 | Millions of parents have been saying this for months . |
| 12 | The Civil Aviation Authority has ordered cuts in pilots ' hours after the discovery that flight crews have been falling asleep in the cockpit . |
| 13 | Emotions have been running high in the community since James 's body was found on a railway embankment . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | My husband has been practising dying for years . |
| 16 | The shop had been standing empty for some time , and needed a great deal of work . |
| 17 | Richard used a new toothbrush which Martin had been saving fresh from the cellophane . |
| 18 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 19 | Gregory and Gary O'Kane have been looking sharp in the Saffron jersey recently while Jim Close and Sean Paul McKillop are match-winners in their own right . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Canoeists and surfers have been riding one of the biggest Severn Bores that will be seen this year . |
| 22 | Gilbert had been standing next to them and almost fell down the stairs in his efforts to get away from those doors as something shouldered them open . |
| 23 | Theologians have been arguing this for two thousand years … ’ |
| 24 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 25 | Recently , the Atari ST has been selling bundled with £400-£500 worth of games for £399 . |
| 26 | Besides , he could just imagine Cashman 's fury if he discovered that Cindy had been staying unchaperoned with Matthew . |
| 27 | No one could say how long the elderly woman had been lying lifeless in her home , but the authorities told reporters she had apparently not responded to calls since before Hallowe'en . |
| 28 | The present rendezvous had been riding high on my chart of dreads . |
| 29 | Hundreds of refugees in Srebrenica in eastern eastern Bosnia have been living rough on the streets and eating bread made from corn husks . |
| 30 | Probably , most people have been doing this for ages , but I ca n't remember seeing it , so if it helps anyone , great . |