Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 2 | So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true . |
| 3 | We 've been fighting about money of late , but then again it might be my face . |
| 4 | In addition , many governments have extended legislation to other areas , for example , laws which permit police to use a breathalyser test to detect and detain drivers who have been drinking in excess of the alcohol limit . |
| 5 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 6 | It will be convenient to mark the distinctions I have been drawing by means of certain semiotic terms . |
| 7 | Since the publication in 1982 of the Barclay Report , Social Workers : Their Role and Tasks , many social services departments in the UK have been searching for ways of putting into practice ideas about community-based social work . |
| 8 | Erm I 'd like to refer to my page three or er section four in my conclusions because I think if I if I heard Professor Lock correctly I think he and I are at one in in a suggestion which is is put to you in in if you like without prejudice to the generality of what I have been saying in support of the council 's policy . |
| 9 | I have been arguing for institutions of higher education to do justice to the idea of a culture of critical discourse ( as Gouldner puts it ) . |
| 10 | More than seventy prisoners have been rioting in part of the Shotts maximum security prison in Scotland . |
| 11 | The exhibition will include various technologies on which Fujitsu and the Singapore government have been working as part of the IT2000 plan , Singapore 's comprehensive computing plan for the twenty-first century , which include south-east Asia 's first B-ISDN service . |
| 12 | In Wales there is a nationally agreed pupil profile ; and many groups of schools or Local Authorities in England have been working on forms of profiling that would be objective and intelligible . |
| 13 | Scientists at the ARC 's institute for research on animal diseases , near Newbury , have been working on ways of reducing the risk of spreading diseases with slurry . |
| 14 | The regions which are leading are in some cases different from those which have been leading in terms of the historic trends over the last four months . |
| 15 | Workers at a piano factory threatened with closure have been demonstrating in support of a management buyout . |