Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] been [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports in early September indicated that the Bush administration had been conducting an ongoing but indirect correspondence with the Iranian regime . |
| 2 | It happened after police in an unmarked car had been following a stolen Maestro for several minutes . |
| 3 | Er now clearly if the if the members had si had been simply the highways committee had been deciding the preferred route simply on the basis of which gives the greatest traffic relief then on that basis they would have chosen an inner northern . |
| 4 | Saying that the council had been pressing the Scottish Office for a long time to commit itself to a new bridge , the administration leader , John MacDougall , said while welcoming their decision , it was vital that the views of users would be taken into account . |
| 5 | His brother Dmitrii had been making a good case for emancipation at the War Ministry , but his own importance , in the long run , was to be greater . |
| 6 | Husband had been filling a curved briar from a silver pocket box . |
| 7 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 8 | Since early April , the Tatarstan and Russian leadership had been negotiating a bilateral treaty which was still incomplete . |
| 9 | However , as was pointed out by the Court of Appeal in Coward v Comex Houlder Diving Ltd ( 1988 ) ( reported in Kemp & Kemp , Section M , para27-322 ) the conventional percentage does not necessarily apply where the wife had been earning a considerable sum herself prior to her husband 's death or presumably where she had a substantial private income : see also Davies v Hawes ( 1990 ) reported in Kemp & Kemp , Section M , para27-323 . |
| 10 | It was later compounded by the fall-out from a family explosion : on Roger Ackerley 's death in 1929 the son discovered that , first , his father had been maintaining a separate menage and that , second , the money had run out . |
| 11 | At the other extreme of the street , Mr Patel was able to confirm that a man had been working the previous day , and that morning , on the Ford Capri that was still there , still with the bonnet raised , still with a plastic bag on the battery . |
| 12 | This significant increase in industrial concentration through merger activity would not have been possible if the government had been operating a tough anti-merger policy . |
| 13 | The Continental Palace orchestra had been playing the new popular melody " Tea for Two " as he came out onto the terrace , and he had been faintly surprised in the event that nobody had turned to stare at him . |
| 14 | Employees of the publicly owned public transport company EAS had been on indefinite strike since July 23 and the army had been running a reduced transport service in the capital . |
| 15 | The girl , who will be seven next month , told the High Court in Glasgow that her grandfather had been wearing a red nose and had been dressed like a clown at the time . |
| 16 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 17 | The hospital 's central heating had been doing a fine job of drying everything on me and I felt like one of those old-fashioned clothes-horses , steaming slightly in warm air . |
| 18 | On the way back from No. 6 Commando positions to Brigade H.Q the road was busy with Jeeps ferrying the wounded from the area where the Black Watch had been attacking the German positions . |
| 19 | She said she and another officer had been pursuing a red Ford Sierra car on the road between the villages of Hillam and Burton , North Yorkshire , when it suddenly stopped and a gunman got out . |
| 20 | This would not be easy , for beneath the surface of the dictatorship Spanish politics had been undergoing a dramatic transformation . |