Example sentences of "[adv] been making [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , for all the vast growth in the range of government activities — which has meant that civil servants have effectively been making major business decisions on the allocation of resources — the Treasury made little attempt to devise fundamentally new and appropriate methods of training and re-training [ Fulton Report , 1968 ; Chapman and Greenaway , 1980 ] . |
| 2 | Sir Richard has also been making final adjustments to his latest film Chaplin , the biography of Charlie Chaplin , the subject of a Royal Film Premiere next month . |
| 3 | Other big firms , some of which are also informally relaxing their rules on unpaid leave for juniors , have also been making large-scale job cuts . |
| 4 | IBM had indeed been making OSI product announcements since summer 1985 , as had its rivals , notably DEC . |
| 5 | I have recently been making sculpted furniture , using a variety of power carving methods for fast timber removal . |