Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We notice that the SSA has been advertising inflatable sumo wrestling kits to hire . |
| 2 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 3 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 4 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 5 | News broke that Steven Jones , a physicist at Brigham Young University ( BYU ) — 30 miles from Salt Lake City and rival of the University of Utah — and a team from BYU had been studying cold fusion for years independently of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 6 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 7 | Erm mine 's good but Martin 's been having some back trouble . |
| 8 | Batty has been receiving electric shock treatment in a bid to cure the ankle ligament damage he sustained against Coventry on October 31 . |
| 9 | Over recent years , China has been undergoing large-scale reform and the management processes are changing rapidly . |
| 10 | Mr Goldin has been visiting Catholic west Belfast and , yes , you guessed , he reckons its citizens are crushed under the heel of the ’ mischievous ’ Brits . |
| 11 | Analyst Nigel Hawkins of Hoare Govett has been advising big fund managers to switch out of electricity shares now into water stocks . |
| 12 | Turned out she wanted to know if Uncle Adam had been sending any radio messages . |
| 13 | Weir had been piling one office upon another , and had recently added to his collection that of sheriff-substitute in the Nether-ward of Lanarkshire , although , as his friend Andrew Gardner urgently pointed out to the duke , this was a precarious place which was held only during the pleasure of the sheriff-depute of Lanarkshire . |
| 14 | Our Nicola 's been moaning all week ! |
| 15 | Liverpool have been putting hard-tackling left-back Stig Bjorbye through his paces at Anfield , while members of Norway 's Under-21 side who beat England last month have been on trial at Leeds , Sheffield United , Oldham and Forest . |
| 16 | Satellite station BSkyB have been advertising live coverage of the Charity Shield fixture between League champions Leeds and Cup-holders Liverpool at Wembley . |
| 17 | Hay has been enduring considerable back pain for a number of years . |
| 18 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 19 | Anne Keddy Hector , Robert Seyfarth and Michael Raleigh at the Universities of California and Pennsylvania have been studying parental behaviour among captive vervets to see if males ' parental ability affected the females ' choice of mate . |
| 20 | France has been expecting heavy snow all week to 1200m … and still waits . |
| 21 | Because Britain had been producing nuclear power longer than most other countries , this was a particularly acute problem . |
| 22 | Pike was pointing to the grass near to where Mr Marr had been sitting that night . |
| 23 | Rival warlords Mohamed Farrah Aidid and Ali Mahdi Mohamed have been looting Western emergency aid supplies sent to the area . |
| 24 | Since then international agencies such as ICRISAT and IITA have been undertaking further research on the more fundamental adaptations that now appear to be required ( Hudson 1981 ) . |
| 25 | It is pertinent that WHO has been sponsoring comparable field trials in African countries to confirm the adequacy of safety margins in case of inadvertent exposure to pest control agents . |
| 26 | But no news is good news , and Mr Clarke has been drawing some comfort from the fact that he has n't heard from his own local family doctor . |
| 27 | She and Jeremy had been seeing each other fairly regularly , but he was an investment banker and they were both so hectically involved in their jobs that they 'd opted for casual , no-strings dating almost by mutual consent . |
| 28 | Harbury had been failing all day to reach Wickham , which was especially frustrating as Wickham was in the same building and Harbury felt proprietorial about the crime . |
| 29 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |
| 30 | Southend have been struggling all season … just as well because Town could have been punished by a better team … |