Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 2 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
| 3 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 4 | Some colleges already undertake their own training of senior management staff and the Further Education Staff College at Coombe Lodge has for years been catering at the national level for the management needs of senior staff by providing residential conferences and workshops , most of which are over-subscribed . |
| 5 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 6 | There is an habitual inability to see the logical wood for the emotional trees , as the less discerning will have been proving since the final whistle sounded at Celtic Park . |
| 7 | For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world . |
| 8 | Rachel , Herbert Varley 's wife , had been helping since the very beginning . |
| 9 | AEA employees have been reacting to the recent announcement about our forthcoming restructuring into three Divisions . |
| 10 | ‘ Kenny has been competing since the junior level and he has done so very successfully , ’ said Mr Sullivan . |
| 11 | The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games . |
| 12 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 13 | The owners of smaller industrial enterprises usually retained many of the antiaristocratic views of the early nineteenth century , when the bourgeoisie had been struggling against the Old Regime . |
| 14 | Headteacher Terry Anderson said staff had been struggling in the cramped conditions since the school was opened in 1985 . |
| 15 | While Francis had been gazing into the unseeable distance , the wall had extended several metres across the clearing . |
| 16 | Then it had suddenly been galloping over the sleeping bodies of a large wolf pack and , again , its mad speed had been such that the furious yelping had been left far behind . |
| 17 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 18 | BLOOD on their hands , as it were , readers have been grappling with the unsolved mystery we set last week . |
| 19 | No longer ‘ hidden from history ’ women artists and art historians have , over the past decade , been grappling with the thorny question of the feminine aesthetic . |
| 20 | Walker , the England Youth international goalkeeper , who has been deputising for the injured Thorstvedt , gave away a free kick just inside his penalty area by taking too many steps with the ball . |
| 21 | All over the country , polytechnics and colleges have been applying to the Privy Council for approval of their new titles . |
| 22 | The dramatic shake-ups during those periods do not suddenly appear out of nowhere but should be seen as resulting from the more gradual and less fundamental changes that had been occurring within the old structure 's context over previous decades . |
| 23 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 24 | He had been driving along the twisting mountain roads when he 'd crashed ; that much she knew . |
| 25 | The mother-of-three had been sunbathing on the hottest day of 1990 . |
| 26 | Something very interesting and very clever had been happening to the Direct Line Insurance tournament at Beckenham lately . |
| 27 | The minister 's answer in Parliament that the cost to the airlines of providing concessionary travel for airline employees would be nothing was exactly what in practice had been happening under the old law . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There were a few people who allowed themselves to feel the pain of loss , the pain of betrayal , when they began to understand what had really been happening in the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | from , from Coventry , what do you feel about what 's been happening in the Soviet Union . |