Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] in [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the same courage she showed in the playground , Howey has been competing in senior international events since the age of 15 , winning the world and European junior championships as well as senior bronze and silver medals at world and European level . |
| 2 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman is aware of the fact that unemployment has been rising in most European Community countries and that it is higher than it was a year ago in every EFTA and G7 country . |
| 3 | Margaret has been teaching in that particular home for five years . |
| 4 | It is tough on criminals and supportive of police , and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now . " |
| 5 | Olivia Ensor ( Mrs Coolidge ) has been exhibiting in various local art exhibitions . |
| 6 | Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings . |
| 7 | What could he have been doing in that little field but reconnoitring the back premises of the house at the far end — even breaking in , there had been burglaries lately . |
| 8 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 10 | Furthermore , since the Korean War , military expenditure has , by and large , been falling as a percentage of GDP and material living standards have been rising in most capitalist economies . |