Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |
| 2 | His conqueror , by 15-9 , 12-15 , 15-9 , 8-15 , 15-13 was Australia 's Chris Dittmar and his tiredness was also partly caused by the extra pounds of weight that have been expanding around his middle in recent months . |
| 3 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
| 4 | The American versus British female stereotype is a trans-Atlantic difference of opinion that has been raging for decades . |
| 5 | The child 's corpse must have been loaded onto some form of transport that had been waiting beyond the yard . |
| 6 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 7 | He mumbled that he was still in a state of shock and had been walking around in a dream all day . |
| 8 | Opening the can of Coke that has been rattling round in your school bag all morning . |
| 9 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 10 | We discovered that by making permanent changes to their usual diets individuals felt that their general health improved dramatically ; they felt far better mentally , and they managed to lose those ugly pounds of flesh that had been slowing them down and stubbing their ego . |
| 11 | There was a great fear of the fickleness of audiences , an anxiety that the craze would die and that in particular movies would lose their fascination for precisely those sections of society that had been going to them longest . |
| 12 | Certainly , if you 're familiar with earlier versions of Paradox or have been benchmarking the competition , Version 4 seems remarkably swift.It 's all down to a substantial rewrite , particularly of the disk caching . |
| 13 | ‘ What I suspect is that someone has deliberately caused delays in delivery of leather and has been undercutting your father 's prices . ’ |
| 14 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 15 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 16 | With frontier restrictions coming down all over Europe in 1992 , they fear the sort of epidemic that has been sweeping the rest of the continent . |