Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 2 | An inquest has been hearing how a bomb expert and four other workers were killed as they helped to clear Gulf War debris in the Kuwaiti desert . |
| 3 | The outstanding performers were Scott Loftus , of Old Loughts , who scored four , and Old Felstedians Chris Maitland and Paul Surridge , who has been holding down a place with National League First Division outfit Canterbury since leaving school . |
| 4 | An explicit leaflet and poster for students sloganned ‘ take a course in safe sex ’ has been causing quite a furore . |
| 5 | His chief backer is Roy Hattersley , whom he has been seeing quite a bit lately . |
| 6 | To find out what effect all this burning may be having on the upper atmosphere , particularly upon global warming , the Brazilian space institute , in collaboration with NASA from the United States , has been carrying out a research programme . |
| 7 | Lately George has been doing quite a lot of libel , where there is also a jury to persuade and headlines to be had . |
| 8 | First off though our reporter Fiona Mcbride has been finding out a bit more about Glasgay . |
| 9 | Some couples who have failed to hear what the other has been saying over a number of years may need the help of a third person , probably a trained counsellor , to get them talking again . |
| 10 | Yet for almost 20 years a black-owned company , Writers and Readers , has been putting out a line of books in Britain and America , called ‘ the Beginners Series ’ , designed to tell black children and students about history , culture and famous people . |
| 11 | If you think that Toronto vertical market turnkey systems integrator Geac Computer Corp has been making rather a lot of acquisitions of late , well you ai n't seen nothing yet . |
| 12 | She 's been getting quite a lot of in our jokes over a couple ha ! |
| 13 | It 's his first film for five years and he told me it 's been creating quite a stir , because of its subject matter . |
| 14 | ‘ I say , ’ he said jovially , ‘ I see my mama 's been lashing out a bit . ’ |
| 15 | An inquest 's been hearing how a man shot his wife , and then turned the gun on himself . |
| 16 | A court 's been hearing how a drink driver failed to stop after hitting a nine year old girl ; she died from her injuries . |
| 17 | And from his Portakabin headquarters behind barbed wire round the back of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre complex , ‘ actually a great improvement on the one room we had inside until this month ! ’ , he 's been lining up a string of new sponsorship deals . |
| 18 | Said Guy 's been playing up a bit lately has n't he ? |