Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was alleged the car had been doing 50-60mph on the wrong side of the road . |
| 2 | ‘ Fan have been growing bored with the sex and drugs and rock and roll syndrome . |
| 3 | A Planning Committee had been meeting weekly in 1969 , but the College had not wanted to be too rigid in imposing teaching methods . |
| 4 | One family tea-time , when Auntie had been sitting silent for some time , she said : " It 's lucky there 's never anyone left in those offices at night . " |
| 5 | My husband has been practising dying for years . |
| 6 | The shop had been standing empty for some time , and needed a great deal of work . |
| 7 | Recently , the Atari ST has been selling bundled with £400-£500 worth of games for £399 . |
| 8 | No one could say how long the elderly woman had been lying lifeless in her home , but the authorities told reporters she had apparently not responded to calls since before Hallowe'en . |
| 9 | The star has been getting used to the infatuations of Luke-crazed girls . |
| 10 | Spraying conventional crops with fungicides costs US$750 a hectare a year and is a hazard to the health of plantation workers and the environment ; there is also evidence that black sigatoka had been becoming resistant to the chemicals . |
| 11 | For many years our brethren of the turf have been making sure of the accuracy of their finishes ( as well as the propriety of conduct around the bend and down the straight ) by employing photographic scrutiny . |
| 12 | Hard experimental evidence for the existence of this energy has been lacking due to the imperfections of both chemical and molecular physics , as well as self-imposed restrictions on the imagination . |