Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Berkshire Hunt , based at nearby Faringdon , has been hunting in the area since 1830 . |
| 2 | The ash cloud has been moving around the earth at 75 mph at an altitude of about 15 miles up in the stratosphere . |
| 3 | Robson , 35 , has been struggling with a recurrence of a calf injury and missed the explosive Manchester derby at Old Trafford on Tuesday . |
| 4 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
| 5 | The UK subsidiary has been eating into the parent company 's profits due to start up costs for its paging and mobile communications operations . |
| 6 | Luckily , despite the cramped conditions , I was able to block the inspector 's view , thereby obscuring Colin Webley 's neanderthal plumbing and the various cultures and mould growths my boy Chester has been propagating on the water tank as part of his Tech . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Britain has been steering in the direction of low-tax economy for the last ten years . |
| 8 | Vanessa Stedman , one of the winners of the GH/NatWest Bank Enterprising Women Awards 1991 , wrote to tell us that since appearing in our November issue , the postman has been staggering under the weight of all the orders for her fashionable appliqué T-shirts . |
| 9 | For years , Costa Rica has been calling for the extradition of US citizen John Hull , charged with premeditated homicide , drugs and arms trafficking , along with other criminal acts including participation in the 1984 bombing of a news conference at La Penca , in which six died . |
| 10 | Since last summer , Controll has been acting as a dealer for Hewlett-Packard Co , Compaq Computer Corp and Philips Electronics NV . |
| 11 | Then when you stop dieting , the body , which has been acting in a kind of starvation mode , finds that it has become used to its new BMR and requires less calories to function . |
| 12 | AN AMOROUS owl has been breaking into a nature park visitors ' centre every night after falling in love — with a wooden model . |
| 13 | As its name would suggest , WinFax is a Windows-based Fax application , which has been shipping for a year now in its Version 2.0 form . |
| 14 | This week Tom has been living on a glass of water , half a cup of tea and just one small dinner a day . |
| 15 | A man who has been living on the verge of success for so long now he 's been elected mayor , PIERCE TURNER is nonetheless happy , And with one of the year 's best albums , ‘ Now Is Heaven ’ , under his belt , why should n't he be ? |
| 16 | Sentence was delayed on the mother , Celia Palmer , aged l8 , who was remanded to stay in the hostel where she has been living during the trial while social and probation reports are prepared . |
| 17 | Clark has been living with a Jarvik 7 implant , connected to a separate air compressor , since 2 December last year . |
| 18 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 19 | Snodin provided an authority in central midfield that has been lacking since the departure of Peter Reid and Rideout said : ‘ Ian Snodin made the difference with a little bit of class . |
| 20 | From 19 April 1993 the Supreme Court taxing office has been experimenting with a pilot scheme and a set of draft rules is contained within Practice Direction 1 of 1993 . |
| 21 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 22 | Astrophil has been trying in the sonnet to proceed by imitation and been singularly unsuccessful in doing so . |
| 23 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 24 | Adisa has been staying At the home of Michael Durgut in Kidlington , a native Bosnian . |
| 25 | Adisa has been staying At the home of Michael Durgut in Kidlington , a native Bosnian . |
| 26 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 27 | I spose he has been fading towards the end of matches , but then again — who has nt ? |
| 28 | He has been swimming in a pool somewhere , I said to myself . |
| 29 | She has been recuperating from the shoulder wound at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic and had made enough progress to prompt speculation that she might , after all , be fit to defend her French Open title . |
| 30 | In the pilot 's seat Bill has been listening to the conversation behind him . |