Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [v-ing] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 2 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 3 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 4 | Although Mr Lamont has been staying in the Imperial Hotel with the rest of the Cabinet , he has held most of the talks in more down-market hotels along the Promenade . |
| 5 | ‘ Five Bellies ’ , who earns nearly £40,000 a year as Gazza 's companion and minder , has been staying in the Italian capital since the soccer star joined Lazio . |
| 6 | We can plausibly infer that crime has been increasing in the last two to three decades , presenting a problem for explanation and policy . |
| 7 | He has been playing in the local Welsh leagues , has represented West Indies ‘ B ’ and is being keenly monitored by the county . |
| 8 | Under Cause and Onset look at what has been happening in the preceding hours or days to the onset of the illness and consider the speed with which the illness came on and the order of events . |
| 9 | As I see it , Rocky 's been playing in the wide midfield role ( more or less a direct replacement for Strach ) , with Fairclough playing as a direct replacement for Batty , and Macca and Speed in more central roles . |
| 10 | from , from Coventry , what do you feel about what 's been happening in the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | Well , no what I 'm , what I 'm denying is I 'm questioning your assertion on what 's been happening in the last couple of weeks that we should react to that on a pa on er er report that has n't been released , right ? |
| 12 | As an amateur person , as it were , interested in art , I get very confused about what 's been happening in the past fifty to eighty years . |
| 13 | He 's been sleeping in the spare room , you see , but when you turned up last night , he moved back in . |