Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's a curiously authoritative figure , ’ says Tom Nairn , the political philosopher who has been pondering the various strains of British nationalism for years . |
| 2 | Actuaries have recently been considering the particular difficulties of calculating pensions valuations in divorce cases , but have also been looking at the much wider issues raised by the changing pattern of divorce and marriage . |
| 3 | According to a report in the journal Veterinary Record , three ostriches in German zoos have been displaying the classic signs of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) after feeding on meat from local slaughterhouses . |
| 4 | Like the good gossip he was , he had merely been marshalling the various elements of his anecdote to their best advantage . |
| 5 | Picasso had , it is true , for some time been frequenting the different galleries of the Louvre . |
| 6 | People have been studying the behavioural functions of the brain for something less than two centuries and , for much of that time , their efforts have been hampered by a combination of inevitable ignorance and adherence to implausible psychological theories . |
| 7 | Conservationists have for many years been predicting the catastrophic consequences of a major oil spill in Arctic or Antarctic seas , and in early 1989 , their worst fears were realised . |
| 8 | The Institute 's Education & Training Directorate and the General Practitioner Board have been watching the falling numbers of students training in small firms with deep concern and both have set up working parties to look at the problems . |