Example sentences of "[adv] been [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and MOS equipment , which again , we we 've b successfully been doing over the last two or three years . |
| 2 | Spoiled and wilful she might be at times , but the emotional distance between them caused by the difference in their ages and their forced separation in childhood had slowly been closing over the past two years . |
| 3 | Then it had suddenly been galloping over the sleeping bodies of a large wolf pack and , again , its mad speed had been such that the furious yelping had been left far behind . |
| 4 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |
| 5 | I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’ |
| 6 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 7 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |
| 8 | Guest houses , inns , farmhouses and B&Bs have all been improving in the same way as the rest of the industry , so that the best of them compare in their own category with say , AA red star hotels . |
| 9 | Juventus manager Giovanni Trapattoni confirmed last night : ‘ David has not been playing at the top level recently because of a knee condition . ’ |
| 10 | When an Australian newspaper alleged that Kerry Packer had " fixed " the result of a cricket match involving the West Indian team , its captain ( Clive Lloyd ) was entitled to damages even though he was not named in the article and had not been playing in the particular match . |
| 11 | Because she 's not been going to the first aid room . |
| 12 | One new research interest had already been developing in the mid-seventies from my earlier work in semantics . |
| 13 | I had just been reading in the Daily Minute about the string of beatings and manslaughters in Rosalind Court : the night before last a Jap computer expert and a German dentist had been found in a parking lot with their faces stomped off . |
| 14 | Now she saw that he had just been dealing with the easy , practical part first . |
| 15 | If you think about it , the whole fucking been going since the early six , mid sixties |
| 16 | In any event , that strange sound that has lately been emanating from the American scientific community is a kind of purring . |
| 17 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 18 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 19 | It has also been running for the past three weeks against The Free Frenchman , which may turn out to be a turbo-tortoise but which started as the turn off of the week . |
| 20 | The pathologist had also been working since the previous afternoon , a task many would find horribly gruesome but which to him was more full of detective fascination than any other he could imagine . |
| 21 | Conservative leaders have traditionally been accommodating to the major interest and sought compromises . |
| 22 | There were a few people who allowed themselves to feel the pain of loss , the pain of betrayal , when they began to understand what had really been happening in the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | The first candidates have now been enrolling for the new , operational system , following the successful completion of the pilot phases of the Advanced Courses Development Programme during 1988–90 . |
| 24 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |
| 25 | He had n't been listening to the worried discussions behind him . |
| 26 | ‘ Mike , ’ he said , ‘ I wonder if we have n't been starting from the wrong end . |
| 27 | To a degree some of the rise in prices resulted from market makers scrambling to acquire shares to meet investor demands but the Conservative victory has restored confidence in the City , something which has definitely been missing over the last few weeks . |