Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [v-ing] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The star has been getting used to the infatuations of Luke-crazed girls . |
| 4 | He says that the river has been getting cleaner over the years so this is a setback . |
| 5 | He says that the river has been getting cleaner over the years so this is a setback . |
| 6 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 7 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 8 | Moshe Gerstenhaber , chairman of Kall-Kwik Printing , has been using this as a promotional feature : ‘ If ever evidence was needed to prove the merits of franchising , the present difficult trading conditions have to be an example . ’ |
| 9 | A flotilla of surfers and canoes has been riding one of the year 's biggest Severn Bores . |
| 10 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 11 | Jim is a founder member of the Elderslie Boys Club — which has been going strong in the area for seven years — and the Stoddards employee has himself contributed 17 years to Boys football . |
| 12 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 13 | Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer . |
| 14 | But as Ian McGeechan himself said : ‘ He has been playing some of the best rugby of his life . ’ |
| 15 | Ironically , it has been one of the board 's own employees , Dr Ross Hesketh , who has been questioning many of the rather bland assurances on what has happened to British plutonium from the civil programme . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been standing empty for a couple of years . |