Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] been [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly the British economy had been growing at only about half the average annual rate of 5.4 per cent for the EEC countries since 1953 . |
| 2 | And what would an ordinary person have been earning at Helliwells ? |
| 3 | However , during the same period the Japanese economy has been growing at about 3% per year . |
| 4 | At The Gnoll , while the outside world has been chortling at Neath 's discomfiture , they have insisted all along that every club is entitled to a transitional season now and then . |
| 5 | HP CEO John Young told a meeting of analysts last week that HP had been looking at both the USL and OSF kernels , but had no plans in place to license USL technology . |
| 6 | Out of sheer perversity , the thinking human seems impelled to say something contrary to whatever received opinion has been yelling at him . |
| 7 | While Jessica and Karen had been helping with the salmon mousse , the dark-eyed alien had been lurking at the gate … |
| 8 | For the first time that anyone can remember , the Soviet Union has been buying at the London auction . |
| 9 | But just as these new politics have been developing at the local level , so too we need new theories and new concepts to take account of them . |
| 10 | Three of them I recognize , but the whole gang has been grinning at me and clapping me on the back like I was their kid brother pulled out of a scrape . |
| 11 | In the 1980s local decentralization has been occurring at a slower pace than in the previous decade and in some cases appears to have gone into reverse . |
| 12 | The number of people who die from the habit is increasing every year , and a special conference has been looking at ways of tackling the problem . |