Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] be [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of these , 44 had been taking delayed release mesalazine as the sole maintenance treatment for at least six months . |
| 2 | Madeline had spent 20 years in education and childcare management and for the last 10 had been running nine nurseries for a charity in London . |
| 3 | Held motionless in zero gravity by the robots with no input of information whatever , the three had been undergoing sensory deprivation for the past hour . |
| 4 | Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) : ‘ We 're not Art specialists … we need to have an explanation of Art staff expectations in terms of the nature of the tasks set and the quality of the final output … the class I saw was practising observational skills for homework … limited to the use of pencil . ’ |
| 5 | As ruler of Aquitaine Henry felt that it was his duty to impose a settlement , but in recent years Louis VII had been showing some interest in this region , which lay on the route between Paris and Toulouse . |
| 6 | Trade unions representing ambulance workers and National Health Service ( NHS ) management agreed on Feb. 23 on a phased pay increase for ambulance workers , who since September 1989 had been taking varying degrees of industrial action [ see p. 37160 ] . |