Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [been] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nursing organisations in New South Wales have for some time been discussing specific roles of the nurse practitioner with the Department of Health , the outcome of which has been eagerly awaited by the Australian Medical Association ( AMA ) and nursing organisations in other states . |
| 2 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
| 3 | They point out , for example , that Japanese companies in particular have for some time been making strenuous efforts to recruit labour which is not so much cheap but flexible and prepared to work hard for the company in question . |
| 4 | The plants had for the past three years been emitting toxic fumes which had caused skin diseases among the villagers , killed fish in local fishponds and contaminated farmlands . |
| 5 | This agreement ( which gave formal recognition to what had for several decades been becoming established practice ) brings out well the complexities and ambiguities inherent in much of the administrative structure of old-regime Europe . |
| 6 | Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults . |