Example sentences of "be [conj] [noun] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All the rumours are that Jerry 's been bringing his troops back from the east by the train-load . |
| 2 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 3 | The most damning fact of all is that Seb had been drinking . |
| 4 | I think what happened was that Nick had been hanging around waiting to get hold of her . |
| 5 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 6 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 7 | Her feeling was that Meryl had been waiting for someone … |
| 8 | Though many commentators drew attention to the job-displacing tendencies of microelectronics technology it is likely that the reason their gloomy forecasts were paid so much attention was because unemployment had been rising fairly fast in most industrialised countries following the two oil price hikes in the 1970s and the consequent world economic recession . |