Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been thinking a great deal about it , and I really think there was much force in what your friends said … |
| 2 | I have been thinking a good deal , as I 'm sure you have , about the decline in income and the urgent need to improve matters . |
| 3 | I have been trying a new range of foods from OSI , an American company with a good reputation in the States , which manufactures a massive range of both freshwater and marine food products . |
| 4 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 5 | I have been giving a great deal of consideration towards the most effective Council Tax structure to be adopted based on the experiences of Community Charge to date . |
| 6 | And he answered : ‘ Yes , I have been waiting a long time , waiting to hear you say that . |
| 7 | I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly . |
| 8 | I have been walking a great deal , he wrote . |
| 9 | Tam Dalyell is wrong to say that I have been predicting a total European ban on lead in petrol as from June this year ( Forum . |
| 10 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 11 | The water is intended to wash away the contamination of sacredness of persons who have been acting a priestly role . |
| 12 | If you have been following a normal varied British pattern of eating you have probably been consuming less dietary fibre than you need for health protection , but it is unlikely that you are deficient in minerals and vitamins . |
| 13 | Have you not read novels , been to the cinema and watched the hero and heroine embracing and realized you have been missing a great deal ? |
| 14 | To get a true feeling for the plan it should also be applied to the Principal because although you have been paying a fixed amount in each month the value of this has also decreased due to inflation . |
| 15 | We have been lacking a wee bit of professionalism recently . |
| 16 | But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true . |
| 17 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 18 | In the above discussion we have been considering a word-oriented computer where each instruction occupies one word . |
| 19 | Corden added : ‘ Tuesday 's result was very disappointing but we have been carrying a few injuries . |
| 20 | we have been waiting a long time traffic calming . |
| 21 | So far we have been presupposing a single agent responding to a present situation and trying to guide his spontaneity by reason . |
| 22 | Says 24-year-old Alex : ‘ We have been having a great time in Blackpool and are all so excited about coming to Liverpool . |
| 23 | If they have been taking a prescribed drug this is likely to have been methadone , and if the daily dose can be established this can be prescribed . |
| 24 | Since then they have been effecting a gradual programme of repair , restoration and alteration . |
| 25 | Women are particularly vulnerable to diseases such as arthritis , osteoporosis ( brittle-bone disease ) and heart attacks in their middle years if they have been leading a sedentary life , sitting slumped in front of the television , losing muscle tone and even bone mass . |
| 26 | ‘ They have been doing a fantastic job putting the Berlitz name in a leading position since the move from Lausanne and through the process of merger with Fukutake , ’ said Mr Kirkpatrick . |
| 27 | They have been fighting a real war , a race war , a class war , a war over resources and territory , a war in which real children die every day , a war nobody can win because no territory is conquered and the body counts do not mean victory . |