Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [been] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eight-year-old Ian had been talking in class all through a painting lesson . |
| 2 | Bet bloody Matt 's been getting at him probably knew the camera had caught him looking shit-scared . |
| 3 | Evidence was also given that Ward had been suffering from a personality disorder and was highly suggestible at the time of her arrest and trial . |
| 4 | Quite recently , the European Parliament have been calling for oil ships which do not meet E E C standards to be expelled from community waters . |
| 5 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 6 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 7 | Strange voices had been talking inside her head forever . |
| 8 | We can plausibly infer that crime has been increasing in the last two to three decades , presenting a problem for explanation and policy . |
| 9 | Woolwich says six-month arrears are back to the levels of February 1988 and the Abbey National says short-term arrears have been declining since the end of last summer and repossessions are stable or falling . |
| 10 | These were the first multiparty elections to be held in the Soviet Union , the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet having in December 1989 abolished the constitutionally guaranteed communist monopoly of power [ see p. 37129 ] and having earlier in February passed a new law regulating the establishment and functioning of new political parties ; in fact new or revived political parties had been emerging in Lithuania since the beginning of 1989 [ see pp. 36487 ; 36854 ] . |
| 11 | This seemingly symbiotic link has been damaging to the more general applicability of these criteria in other contexts . |
| 12 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 13 | The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them . |
| 14 | Some groups have been buying into the new sites — as House of Fraser , which owns Harrods , has done at Meadowhall in Sheffield — but such an expensive strategy requires cool nerves in the present recession . |
| 15 | Its first DCE-compliant products have been shipping in the US since December 18 . |
| 16 | OVER the past two months , an electronic device called the 810 enhancement has been arriving in Britain from the US . |
| 17 | Within the major firms this stock has been rising in some cases at over 20% per annum , and has proved to be a very good investment in spite of not being on the market . |
| 18 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 19 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 20 | Perhaps in an effort to justify this simplification , some instructors have been warning against the use of the rudder to stop the yaw if a wing drops at the stall . |
| 21 | The unemployed electrician had been living with girlfriend Andrea McCardle at the flat in Lee Park Drive , Belle Vale , for two years . |
| 22 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |
| 23 | British Telecom has been putting on the pressure since Mercury was granted a licence in February last year . |
| 24 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 25 | I 've got a bit of a conflict of interest here straightaway because the actual case that Roy is talking about is actually my brother and I at this moment have been complaining to the Lloyds Policy Unit in respect of erm this particular policy , because the company that was actually trading went into liquidation . |
| 26 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |
| 27 | Roger Kelly , who coordinates its work explains : ‘ For 15 years this place has been going through a slow , organic evolution . |
| 28 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 29 | This microlight had been flying with the right wingtip set to maximum incidence , but with the left at one setting of reduced incidence from neutral . |
| 30 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |