Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [be] [v-ing] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Justice Otton was told they regretted helping to give currency to the allegation that John Major and Miss Latimer had been conducting an adulterous relationship . |
| 2 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 3 | Eric Forth has been telling an international petroleum seminar in Dunstable that there 's no need to step in and limit the price rises . |
| 4 | On May 7 the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry claimed that Armenia had been waging an undeclared war on Azerbaijan , and that in over 300 cross-border attacks since the beginning of the year a total of 61 Azerbaijanis had been killed . |
| 5 | The president himself has quashed rumours that Egypt has been pursuing an Arab peace initiative , and rejected the idea of any ceasefire until the Iraqis have promised to withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 6 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 7 | For several years weatherman Paul Damari has been operating an independent weather service for balloonists . |
| 8 | The Trust in North Wales has been undertaking an in-depth feasibility study into the possibility of harnessing the natural water power of the Ogwen Falls on the 18,000-acre Carneddau Estate in Snowdonia . |