Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] have been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement . |
| 2 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 3 | Wood missed the tour through injury , but is now fully fit and has been working hard in the nets over the last three days . |
| 4 | The first course began in 1978 and has been recruiting satisfactorily ever since on an annual basis . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that GP fund-holding has been proving successful and has been extending quite dramatically . |
| 6 | Mrs Bootyman said Naomi had visited the weekend before her death on January 14 and had been acting differently . |
| 7 | David Salter , eighth last year and fifth in 1991 , will be joined again by Tom McKeith , who was third in the initial Ipswich success in 1990 but has been missing since . |