Example sentences of "[pers pn] has be [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she has been teaching now for some eight years , on and off , although she enjoys it , feels she is good at it , and would like to go on doing it for the rest of her life if possible , she always feels a twinge of anxiety at the beginning of a new term . |
| 2 | After six years of marriage , however , Adrienne finds she has been strolling unwittingly through a psychological jungle . |
| 3 | She has been feeding intensively in the neighbourhood , building up in her body the reserves from which she will produce her eggs . |
| 4 | She has been moving well in home gallops and defends her record in the Gainsborough Stud Fred Darling Stakes . |
| 5 | She has been living there since leaving Keith in the family home a mile away . |
| 6 | Hills said : ‘ She has been crying out for a mile , and the way the race was run she has been lucky enough not to have had too hard a race . ’ |
| 7 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 8 | Recently , she has been working closely with the stylist Judy Blame , ‘ as his sort of taste bud ’ , styling Neneh Cherry , Tackhead and new artist Harriet . |
| 9 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 10 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 11 | Apparently not , for he has been thinking hard for months and his decision is now solid . |
| 12 | Throughout the whole sequence , from the first musings to the final decision , he has been reacting spontaneously to what step by step he has been learning . |
| 13 | ‘ He has been jumping around with all the other children in the ward . ’ |
| 14 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 15 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |
| 16 | Now at 16 Steven has a steady girlfriend of 15 , who he has been going out with for several months . |
| 17 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 18 | He looks wonderful ; prison has fattened him and his cheeks are pink and shiny , as though he has been working out of doors . |
| 19 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 20 | It has been developing away on a polymer foam that is intended to fill an entire building ‘ from floor to ceiling ’ in a few seconds after an alarm is tripped . |
| 21 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 22 | ‘ It has been operating out of the airport for the past five years and on a more frequent basis than it is doing now and we have not had any complaints of this nature in the past . |
| 23 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that if the Labour party implemented even a fraction of the spending priorities that it has been spreading around over the past year or two , to the tune of £30 billion or £40 billion extra expenditure , it would not only have to face the problem of raising taxation , but would have to resort to massive borrowing , which would increase interest rates and greatly damage the economy ? |
| 24 | A glance at the coupon of the new issue and what it has been paying out on the ones being redeemed shows the reason for the moves . |
| 25 | The last ten days gradually it has been coming back since the really trough period in late January with the war and the snow , etc. , and in fact this week erm we 're expecting this week to probably do double the level of bookings that we did last week , and that 's on overseas holidays for summer and winter . |
| 26 | UK Defence Research Agency 's Ten15 Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology will also be incorporated : UI says it has been working closely with DRA for the last six months on proposals . |
| 27 | It will produce a series of prototype versions of the Mach microkernel it has been working on with experimental extensions for real-time and high-trust portable working across a range of hardware architectures , especially non-shared memory supercomputers . |
| 28 | It will produce a series of prototype versions of the Mach microkernel it has been working on with experimental extensions for real-time and high-trust portable across a range of hardware architectures , especially non-shared memory supercomputers . |
| 29 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 30 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |