Example sentences of "[noun] that have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 2 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 3 | The fine drizzle that has been falling all afternoon has not been enough to stop the match between Scotland and Ireland , but enough to keep the crowds away . |
| 4 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 5 | I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’ |
| 6 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 7 | These became , in fact , the almost exclusive preserve of Hammer Films , a company that had been making skilfully-marketed pictures with an eye on the US B-movie market since the late 1940s . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's Dieter 's section that 's been handling this , so I 'll let him fill in the background . ’ |