Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] be [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This row , this argument had been brewing all season long . |
| 2 | Apparently the old man has been hammering this into them for weeks . ’ |
| 3 | The problem for researchers in this country has been getting enough Yew to carry out their work . |
| 4 | William IV died shortly afterwards and it has been written that , a search being instituted , it was found that that bluff and breezy monarch had been using this unique ancient artifact as a shaving mug ! |
| 5 | Yeah but but of course this chap has been doing this research in erm Bangladesh was n't it , I think ? |
| 6 | The 28-year-old actor has been taking some time off to get his life back in order after filming three movies due out this year . |
| 7 | Violet Mapping had been running this massage parlour for five years . |
| 8 | To the politicians the increase in the ratio means they are getting better value for money , greater efficiency — each student educated is costing fewer taxpayers ' pounds . |
| 9 | Latin American art has been undergoing such a review both from within Latin America itself and from elsewhere , with several exhibitions and books on the subject in the last few years in Europe and the US . |
| 10 | The Metropolitan Museum has been examining some of its most treasured paintings with the aid of the latest technology , and it has come up with a result which confounds the hitherto accepted history of art . |
| 11 | One or another young kid has been watching this place since I left . |