Example sentences of "[noun sg] had be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition the gas industry had been investing in expensive pipeline and other transportation systems to import gas from Canada , Mexico and Algeria , in anticipation of a continuing supply shortfall which the Natural Gas Policy Act effectively removed , in the short term at least . |
| 2 | The critically-ill youngster had been staying with various people after walking out of home following rows with her stepfather John . |
| 3 | Coun. Grant said he and Colburn parish council had been pressing for improved pedestrian safety at this point . |
| 4 | ( b ) As the deceased had been suffering from clinical depression which impaired his judgment , his act had not been voluntary and the defence of volenti failed . |
| 5 | The commando had been waiting with disciplined patience some 400 yards ( 365m ) out . |
| 6 | The baby had been endeavouring with grim determination to haul himself from the floor on to Alexandra 's knee , gripping handfuls of her skirts to assist himself and heaving with astonishing strength . |
| 7 | An article in the Timber Trades Journal reported Michael Latham , chairman of a major UK timber firm and then president of the European tropical timber importers union , as saying that : ‘ The entry of the WWF into the field enlarged the scale of the problem for the timber trade , since before that time the trade had been dealing with small local conservationist groups ’ . |
| 8 | It was hard luck on Steinmark , that went without saying , but if the man had been lurking in disreputable quarters and lurching home drunk , it was his own fault . |
| 9 | Dr Bob Cooper gave medical evidence and , according to my shaky shorthand outline , the dead man had been suffering from sexual depression . |
| 10 | An autopsy revealed that the pilot had been suffering from severe coronary artery disease . |
| 11 | There seems little doubt that suspicion and resentment had been festering in Pakistani minds since long before this series began . |
| 12 | The conversation had been unsettling in other ways . |
| 13 | The vessel Yeremi had been riding in scant tens of seconds earlier erupted , disintegrated . |