Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [adv] been [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A contributor to the Funeral Service Journal who declares himself to be ‘ a devoted and qualified embalmer and tutor ’ is a funeral director who has recently been giving advice to readers . |
| 2 | Shinjuro Yamamura , the chairman of the Diet budget committee , was stabbed to death on April 12 by his own daughter , who had reportedly been receiving treatment for a psychiatric condition . |
| 3 | After all , there must have been many comfortable nursing homes in Sydney where her father , who had then been having difficulty in telling even night from day , would have received the sort of care and attention which he had needed . |
| 4 | His friend Morton , who had recently been studying art and sculpture in London , mentioned his parents ' old friends , the Pullmans , who had a place in Hampstead . |
| 5 | But they were a substantial minority , and those historians who have recently been studying inheritance have reached some interesting conclusions . |