Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The star has been getting used to the infatuations of Luke-crazed girls . |
| 3 | Spraying conventional crops with fungicides costs US$750 a hectare a year and is a hazard to the health of plantation workers and the environment ; there is also evidence that black sigatoka had been becoming resistant to the chemicals . |
| 4 | Lately however , many of its opponents have been getting used to the idea . |
| 5 | Hard experimental evidence for the existence of this energy has been lacking due to the imperfections of both chemical and molecular physics , as well as self-imposed restrictions on the imagination . |