Example sentences of "[noun] that [noun] [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the sudden roar of a car engine and a screech of tyres and the red car that Stuart had been looking at sped forward and stopped at the entrance with its passenger door swinging open . |
| 2 | The horse that Tremayne had been going to run had gone lame , and another of Sam 's rides had been withdrawn because its owner 's wife had died . |
| 3 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 4 | And if I may Mr chairman , something that 's happened in the last few days , that 's er evident that er the been the first satellite survey in this country ever which is now beginning to show to the nation , just in fact the damage that roads have been doing and that there 's in fact now some suggestion from government that they may be rethinking some elements of these roads , because the environmental impact has not really been taken into account as effectively before . |
| 5 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 6 | I know from my personal experience of the valuable work that Apex has been doing . |
| 7 | So cold was the Cold War that America had been boycotting the import even of Soviet crab meat , let alone a live and wily Soviet leader . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , piss off , ’ he 'd said finally , which was exactly the reaction that Pete had been expecting . |
| 9 | It is in these past two weeks that Faldo has been putting the last pieces into place . |
| 10 | It has come to my attention that students have been copying software with staff encouragement . |
| 11 | In practice , past references to the MMC have been linked , implicitly at least , to some suspicion that firms have been acting anticompetitively . |
| 12 | Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’ |
| 13 | Following this direct action , BP Coal flew in its executives to meet LAG , a meeting that LAG had been attempting to organize for a year and a half . |
| 14 | So we always this has always been the case for the four five hundred years that people have been doing etching , so they go by a rule of thumb . |
| 15 | So little has been heard from Steve Chen 's Supercomputer Systems Inc in the past couple of years that people have been wondering if the company still existed . |
| 16 | The writers that men have been reading recently ( Nicholson Baker is a prime example ) , on the other hand , ask us to participate in their creation and observation ; we are invited to share the joke , and thus made to feel important . |
| 17 | In addition , there has also been press criticism that ministers have been using advance knowledge to influence market and media opinion . |
| 18 | But contrary to the popular belief that mink have been wiping out waterfowl and outcompeting the native otter , detailed studies have shown that over much of Britain the animal was either sharing abundant food resources with other predators or exploiting a niche which was previously unoccupied . |
| 19 | EVERYONE must be wondering what is happening on the Mid-Hants Railway , the ‘ Watercress Line ’ , having received the startling news from the pages of a contemporary magazine that volunteers have been resigning from the work force in substantial numbers . |
| 20 | The delicate glasses were filled successfully , however , and Ian Jones announced the news that Belinda had been expecting . |
| 21 | Consultants told the paper that IBM has been dissecting the two most recent pre-release versions of NT at its Toronto labs to assess the time and money that would be required to do the implementation , and reckon a product could arrive at the turn of the year . |
| 22 | Consultants told the paper that IBM has been dissecting the two most recent pre-release versions of NT at its Toronto labs to assess the time and money that would be required to do the implementation , and reckon a product could arrive at the turn of the year . |
| 23 | [ BELVILLE absent-mindedly picks up the paper that PAMELA has been writing . ] |
| 24 | Brenda Thornton , do you think that men have changed very much as a result of the more forthright stance that women have been taking recently ? |
| 25 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 26 | The key phrase is , of course , ‘ he let his thinking catch up with him ’ , with its subtle implication that Tethra has been trying to run away from the knowledge that he does not belong . |
| 27 | But BitC was an outfit with drive , enthusiasm , and a determination to make the sort of changes in society that Charles had been trying to make for years . |
| 28 | It is no secret that Damascus has been using the PKK as a bargaining chip to press Turkey into complying with its demands for more water from the Euphrates , on which it heavily depends . |
| 29 | ‘ You ca n't imagine , ’ she choked , ‘ the hell that girl has been goin' through these last few months . |
| 30 | I did n't realize , in fact , oh yeah , let's talk about all the men that Claire 's been hanging out with . |