Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , the National Association of Labour Teachers had been pressing for Common Schools since 1930 . |
| 2 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
| 3 | Following upon the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , a whole succession of English bishops had been publishing this legislation and adding to it their own diocesan statutes ; Pecham himself in 1281 drew upon the legislation of two archbishops — Langton ( 1222 ) and Boniface ( 1261 ) — and two papal legates — Otto ( 1237 ) and Ottobuono ( 1268 ) . |
| 4 | It was pointed out that from the early '60s onwards some parts of British manufacturing had been facing increased economic difficuIties , in particular because of heightened international competition , which firms had been adopting strategies to counter . |
| 5 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 6 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 7 | They seemed to come into focus only slowly , a silent mass of tightly packed yellow faces glistening with perspiration ; scores of dark eyes had been watching him unwaveringly all the time , but their expressions remained uniformly blank . |
| 8 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 9 | It was not surprising , therefore , to find evidence that many of these teachers had been making carefully thought out and constructive efforts to develop more structured and appropriate approaches to this kind of assessment ; a process that has undoubtedly been accelerated by the introduction of the GCSE . |
| 10 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 11 | Somebody calculated that if the surface of the earth was covered with a layer of protein molecules a metre thick , right over the whole surface of the earth erm each one , each protein different from every other one , and let us suppose furthermore that each of these proteins had been changing once as second , uniquely , into some different kind ever since the formation of the earth , we would still have tried out only quite a small fraction of the available possible proteins a hundred amino acids long . |
| 12 | Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke . |
| 13 | Some of these men had been posing as caravan holiday makers for some weeks and now settled for a long , cold night on the clifftops . |
| 14 | Perhaps most alarmingly of all from a Russian point of view , the population of these republics had been increasing very much more rapidly than the all-union average and on some projections was expected to account for 25–30 per cent of the total Soviet population by the end of the century ( the USSR was already the world 's fifth largest Muslim state ) . |
| 15 | For even before it , the new president 's attempts to form a government of national unity had been faltering , thanks mainly to Gen Aoun 's opposition . |
| 16 | For even before it , the new president 's attempts to form a government of national unity had been faltering , thanks mainly to Gen Aoun 's opposition . |
| 17 | Surveys had shown that X-ray doses vary by a factor of 20 or 30 between different hospitals , and that about a quarter of all hospitals had been giving patients unnecessarily high doses . |
| 18 | In a statement read to the inquest , she told how her husband of 11 years had been having difficulty sleeping , but had never talked of suicide . |
| 19 | He said the thousands of get-well messages had been helping him recover from 17 days in a coma after a car crash . |
| 20 | She noted , she said with a pained expression , that output from the UK Vehicle Division of United Motors had been falling steadily over the previous ten years . |
| 21 | Similarly , whilst until then the activity rates of older women had been climbing , thereafter they have levelled off . |
| 22 | A group of revolutionary officers had been drinking and were in the room with her , some in a state of undress . |
| 23 | Although a number of influential parties had been trying to have New Year 's flay changed from the old style 13th of the month to 1st , the majority of the natives were loath to change and both days were partially observed . |