Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] has been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man regarded as the all-time superstar of British Football has been meeting old friends at a special lunch in his honour . |
| 2 | Apparently the old man has been hammering this into them for weeks . ’ |
| 3 | It is ironic that while scientific exploration has been producing incredible and exciting pictures of the world around us the technology it has spawned has had some depressing results — from atomic bombs to chlorofluorocarbons . |
| 4 | The problem for researchers in this country has been getting enough Yew to carry out their work . |
| 5 | Hard experimental evidence for the existence of this energy has been lacking due to the imperfections of both chemical and molecular physics , as well as self-imposed restrictions on the imagination . |
| 6 | Yeah but but of course this chap has been doing this research in erm Bangladesh was n't it , I think ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bankers say the central bank has been selling vast amounts of put options — often up to DM1 billion ( $135m ) a day — that grant the right to sell pesetas for a fixed amount of D-marks by an agreed future date . |
| 9 | For a decade now the developed world has been celebrating African music while altogether denying its otherness . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister has been meeting Conservative backbenchers to try to persuade them not to vote against the Government on Wednesday 's Commons debate on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 11 | I have been asked to reply My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been having important discussions today with President Yeltsin , who is on his first visit abroad as President of an independent Russia . |
| 12 | One of the founding fathers of independent television has been celebrating sixty years in broadcasting . |
| 13 | If one partner has been getting statutory sick or maternity pay for a continuous period of 13 weeks or more , this is counted as income . |
| 14 | If one partner has been getting statutory sick or maternity pay for a continuous period of 13 weeks or more , this is counted as income . |
| 15 | If one partner has been getting statutory sick or maternity pay for a continuous period of 13 weeks or more , this is counted as income . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One element of Germany 's new policy has been winning Polish agreement to take back expelled asylum-seekers ; a quarter of Germany 's influx arrives via Poland . |
| 19 | One or another young kid has been watching this place since I left . |
| 20 | He is a former partner of Gaffer Hexam 's , but Hexam repudiates him when he finds that Riderhood has been robbing live bodies as well as dead ones . |