Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun prp] [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | Further south , the coastal merchants of west Africa had been trading with Europe for several centuries . |
2 | The comment concerned the standard of opposition Leeds have been facing during this unbeaten run and in particular the last match . |
3 | However , since 1970 the large cities and industrial towns in parts of South Wales have been losing rather than gaining people , as the traditional industries linked with mining and metal smelting have declined . |
4 | When last heard of Uncle Charles had been keeping a Malaysian girl less than half his.age in a Vancouver penthouse but George managed to recall some less interesting small-talk and like winged seeds the conversation spiralled delicately down to business . |
5 | All kinds of people Molassi had been winding up about their music taste started piling in . |
6 | Steve Ward , Branch Manager of West Hoathly has been managing the business since the acquisition and has been introducing the ‘ Rentokil way of doing things ’ into the new business . |
7 | Meanwhile residents of Ewyas Harold have been counting the cost of yesterdays flooding . |
8 | The horrors of Neuve Chapelle had been convincing enough as he described them , yet they turned artificial with this knowledge of repetition . |
9 | In fact the whole of SE Asia has been booming over this period . |
10 | Analyst Nigel Hawkins of Hoare Govett has been advising big fund managers to switch out of electricity shares now into water stocks . |
11 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
12 | THE FRIENDS of John McCarthy have been reminding the Foreign Office that the British Government is the only government without a single success in efforts to achieve the release of any of its hostages . |
13 | Before he answered it she slipped in a question about the length of time Shildon had been working on the assignment . |