Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the college had been admitting female students in recent years , its outward appearance still succeeded in impressing the visitor with its austere and indefinably masculine grandeur . |
| 2 | As already explained , in the years since Chernobyl the nuclear industry had been spending increasing sums of money on publicity and advertising . |
| 3 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 4 | Again , I do n't know where they got their information from but I confirmed that the DEA had been running controlled deliveries through Cyprus while I was there and that its operations had been wide open from a security point of view . |
| 5 | In a report on Hrawi 's tour on June 10 , the ( Phalangist ) Voice of Lebanon radio stated that the President had been seeking Arab support for the implementation of the October 1989 Taif Accord for Lebanese national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] . |
| 6 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 7 | A 51 year old white man with a 28 year history of ulcerative colitis and ankylosing spondylitis had been receiving longterm treatment with sulphasalazine , until two years previously . |
| 8 | Burn had been ploughing that May afternoon and was leading his horses back to the field after his tea . |
| 9 | It was a shirt exactly like the one her singer had been wearing that night , as he swaggered among the women , and whispered ‘ Me quieres ? ’ to them all . |
| 10 | Jones also suggested to Ryszard Gajewski , the administrator of the Advanced Energy Program at the DOE , that he inform Fleischmann and Pons that the BYU group had been doing similar work on piezonuclear fusion since 1986 and that cooperation between the two universities , which are only some 50 miles apart , would be a great benefit . |
| 11 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 12 | The plan contained no provisions for the long-term clean-up that would have been necessary if the tanker had been carrying heavier crude . |
| 13 | Not unless the climber had been wearing hobnailed boots . |
| 14 | The authority had been hoping Heswallbased developers Dayglobe would buy the Grade Two listed property . |
| 15 | The authority had been hoping Heswallbased developers Dayglobe would buy the Grade Two listed property . |
| 16 | This row , this argument had been brewing all season long . |
| 17 | Although he was chary of broaching the subject of a full-time shepherd , when he did so , he found that his father had been giving some thought to the matter . |
| 18 | His lordship had been entertaining two guests , a young lady and gentleman , in the summerhouse , and had watched my father 's approach across the lawn bearing a much welcome tray of refreshments . |
| 19 | The forest involved in the transaction had been losing substantial sums of money under Guyanese Government management . |
| 20 | Violet Mapping had been running this massage parlour for five years . |
| 21 | The pilot had been flying spare parts to the European frontline when the 2,500 mile trip from Newfoundland ended . |
| 22 | Lili had said inconsequentially that Syl had been chasing young girls for years , and my mother had asked her crossly how she knew . |
| 23 | The Honduran newspaper , La Tribuna , reported that people opposed to the project had been receiving threatening phone calls . |
| 24 | Even in 1981 it could be claimed that those who held a " strongly anti-progressive , pro-standards line had been enjoying increasing credibility and increasingly strident support from most of the popular press " ( Dale et al. |
| 25 | Less innocent were the scandals such as that exposed in 1916 of Hospital 27 , where a crooked doctor had been providing bogus discharges from the army at several thousand francs a time . |
| 26 | However , the City had been expecting bad figures and the shares rose 15p to 239p . |
| 27 | The commercialization of peasant agriculture had been fostering such differentiation long before Stolypin threw his weight behind it , yet it had done nothing to temper the ferocity of the peasants ' attack upon the nobility in 1905 . |
| 28 | I had a little snigger ; it had to be fully ten minutes since the last stroke of eleven , and the thunder had been murmuring dark warnings ever since . |
| 29 | The ad-man opposite had been casting meaningful glances at her all evening , and the likeliest explanation seemed to be that she and Roger were doing a number together and I 'd inadvertently got caught in the crossfire . |
| 30 | The patients in our trial had been smoking 25 cigarettes a year for 25 years . |