Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader of Britain 's biggest union has been touring an old industrial battleground , to see how times have changed . |
| 2 | As part of a national sponsorship managed through WWF , the Central Electricity Generating Board has been funding the key conservation post of warden for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Naturalists ' Trust . |
| 3 | The former building firm supervisor has been tending the 200 square meter allotment near his Newton home for the past eight years . |
| 4 | In addition to pressure for defence cuts , the Mitterrand administration has been wooing the two Green parties . |
| 5 | ‘ She paid her own ticket from Australia for the interview , and has been running a much-respected heavy metal magazine there , ’ said Dave . |
| 6 | For too long this dirty old man in red has been adopting the friendly old buffer guise to get his kicks from young and innocent children . |
| 7 | And the party has been devising an environmentally-friendly economic strategy . |
| 8 | Patrick Faigenbaum has been immortalising the ancient noble families of Rome and Naples in cruel photographic portraits . |
| 9 | She said she 'd been following a higher moral law . |
| 10 | Perhaps we could have been celebrating the first golden anniversary of the 1,000 Reich boasted about by Hitler . |
| 11 | ‘ Hello , love , ’ said her father , coming in from the kitchen where he had been shelling the succulent fresh prawns that would form part of a cold seafood and salad lunch , before the hot turkey dinner this evening . |
| 12 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
| 13 | Only then did he fully realize that he had been experiencing a mild dull pressure in the head , as well as the nausea , physical and mental fatigue . |
| 14 | This significant increase in industrial concentration through merger activity would not have been possible if the government had been operating a tough anti-merger policy . |
| 15 | Sammy , who had been watching the slight twitching movements that Willie had made in his sleep , now stood at his feet . |
| 16 | The Harp , who had been chasing a fifth consecutive Division One title , were also thrown out of the Queensferry Sports Challenge Cup and this decision was upheld by the Coast FA . |
| 17 | Matthew had been making a detailed fire-protection plan for the acres which Fairfax had wanted to replant or afforest . |
| 18 | At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit . |
| 19 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
| 20 | Sir Matthew Baltravers ( she told me ) had been hosting the amateur operatic society , to which she belonged . |
| 21 | Most of the ‘ masters ’ of torture said that they had been fighting a desperate unseen war , whose atmosphere could not be imagined by people from democracies . |
| 22 | Cardiff could see that he had attached a microphone of some kind to the metal container which still rested on the chair and which had been giving the so-called mysterious ‘ readings ’ . |
| 23 | The forward ceptors had been showing a bright little disc that was the planet Fraxilly , steadily enlarging as we crept near to it on planetary drive . |
| 24 | The Continental Palace orchestra had been playing the new popular melody " Tea for Two " as he came out onto the terrace , and he had been faintly surprised in the event that nobody had turned to stare at him . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been learning the ancient Japanese martial art of san tu dang for about 10 years now and that helps me keep my weight constant . |
| 26 | They 've been restoring a battered old narrowboat . |
| 27 | The vast majority of obese people have been eating a normal unhealthy diet , and changing is a matter of education and attitude as well as trial and error . |
| 28 | Japanese researchers have been subjecting the real seven-storey building to ‘ pseudodynamic testing ’ . |
| 29 | The hills around the city are held by Serbian forces , and the Hercules have been using a special steep landing technique , to keep them out of range of the rebel guns until the very last minute . |
| 30 | Er this is quite commonly accepted as er in use in many places and I think my our colleagues on the other side of the table have been using the same basic modelling methodology . |