Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But fears grew that Iraq has been breaking United Nations trade embargoes . |
| 2 | The UK car component industry has been undergoing severe contraction owing to the rationalisation strategies of UK assemblers and the increasing tendency for foreign-owned assemblers to supply the market through imports . |
| 3 | The problem for researchers in this country has been getting enough Yew to carry out their work . |
| 4 | Napier University has been providing full-time undergraduate teaching in publishing since 1968 . |
| 5 | George Tooker has been portraying brooding figures caught in foreboding psychological situations for many years . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister has been meeting Conservative backbenchers to try to persuade them not to vote against the Government on Wednesday 's Commons debate on the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 7 | A farmer has been using four oxen to plough a field in what 's believed to be the first public demonstration of the skill in almost twenty-five years . |
| 8 | Dr Dafydd Griffiths , at the Institute of Archaeology , has been using these techniques to find answers to these questions , which could throw considerable light on past trading routes and cultural contacts . |
| 9 | OLD BRUSSELS : Chez Jean has been serving steaming pots brimming with mussels and other Brussels specialties since 1931 . |
| 10 | The fine drizzle that has been falling all afternoon has not been enough to stop the match between Scotland and Ireland , but enough to keep the crowds away . |
| 11 | The maintenance staff has been working 18-hour shifts to bring the hospital into full operation . |
| 12 | The team has been scrutinising new data collected during April , and last week they found one proton-antiproton collision recorded in their apparatus which bears the hallmarks of a Z o . |
| 13 | A BANGOR school has been forging electronic mail links with Japan . |
| 14 | World War 1 veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 15 | World War I veteran Mr Brownbill has been waiting two years to see if his application for a house renovation grant would be successful . |
| 16 | The Pearl has been making strenuous efforts to change its business direction , but the Australians clearly see the possibilities offered by the British group 's large distribution network to market its own products . |
| 17 | With the possibility of privatisation looming , the BTG has been making strenuous efforts to become an international organisation . |
| 18 | One element of Germany 's new policy has been winning Polish agreement to take back expelled asylum-seekers ; a quarter of Germany 's influx arrives via Poland . |
| 19 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 20 | He would have been hearing Tubular Bells had the ball not struck glancingly . |
| 21 | This was in response to reports that Collor 's main political advisers had been using federal funds to solicit the votes of the 168 deputies needed to fend off the impeachment initiative . |
| 22 | The West Germans had been using this technique to stimulate postwar rebuilding since the 1950s , and the Department of the Environment clearly saw some parallels . |
| 23 | Throughout the decade , Grierson had been sponsoring young filmmakers to go out and record the lives of ordinary working people . |
| 24 | A STABLE lad who had been drinking all day took a colleague 's car and smashed it through a wall . |
| 25 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 26 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 27 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 28 | Harbury had been failing all day to reach Wickham , which was especially frustrating as Wickham was in the same building and Harbury felt proprietorial about the crime . |
| 29 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 30 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |