Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 2 | Strange voices had been talking inside her head forever . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Its first DCE-compliant products have been shipping in the US since December 18 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In rural areas , as in urban areas , some alternatives have been developing to the three main tenure groups . |
| 10 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 11 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 12 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 13 | Front Benchers and Back Benchers have been going through the hoops , trying to devise a system that is fair and is always related to ability to pay . |
| 14 | Social scientists have been looking at extra-marital sexual patterns to understand why it is some men and women have affairs and others do n't . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that very few reservoirs have been functioning for more than 10 years , cases have been described in which dysplasia and carcinoma have been seen in colitic pouches and adenomas in FAP pouches . |
| 16 | About 700 men had been working at three pit levels up to 560 metres below the ground , over a 2 sq km area . |
| 17 | Some boys had been jumping on the backs of trams , when the conductor 's attention was distracted , giving the emergency bell signal , stealing cash boxes and jumping off . |
| 18 | British hares have been dying in increasing numbers from a mystery disease which resembles myxomatosis , which was introduced deliberately to control rabbits in the 1950s . |
| 19 | ‘ There is no magic solution to this issue and employees who smoke will need to harness their own willpower , but the ban could be the kind of incentive that some smokers have been waiting for to help them reduce or stop smoking and improve their general health . ’ |
| 20 | It was revealed in August that Wiltshire Social Services have been paying for him to stay at his grandparents ' house on the Costa Blanca . |
| 21 | And they would then sell these goods at high prices to those buyers who have not discovered that some sellers have been selling for low prices . |
| 22 | Although a dozen or more Japanese drift-netters had been operating in the Tasman Sea for the previous 5 years , their presence had practically gone unnoticed . |
| 23 | Because borrowing has become easier , and because confidence has been high , personal savings have been falling around the developed world . |
| 24 | Even though Rome was giving little in return in terms of moderating its claims to be the only true Christian church , faint liberal breezes had been blowing through the Vatican since the second Vatican Council . |
| 25 | Mail order houses ' share of total consumer spending on such goods has been increasing at such a rate that , within two or three years , it is likely to be double its 1970 level . |
| 26 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 27 | For a long time the industrious Bavarians had been preparing for such an attack . |
| 28 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 29 | Such conclusions had been growing in force in American higher education for many years , and especially since the investigation carried out by Harvie Branscomb , librarian of Duke University , in the later 19305 at the request of the Association of American Colleges . |
| 30 | For some years the naval dockyards have been operating in a limbo land . |