Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | OUTRAGEOUS US comedienne Roseanne Arnold has been sending poison-pen faxes to critics who panned husband Tom 's new TV show . |
| 2 | The Cardigan Bay Forum , of which we are a founder member , has been paying serious attention to the issues arising from the oil industry 's increasing interest in exploring potential reserves in Cardigan Bay , including the forthcoming test drilling by Hamilton Brothers off Bardsey . |
| 3 | However , it is encouraging that the University 's Guild of Graduates has been giving serious consideration to the future development of higher education in the Principality , including advanced further education . |
| 4 | Your Lordships will be aware that the Government has been giving careful consideration to the issue of whether B R should be a franchisee in the light of the noble lord Lord Paignton 's amendment , agreed at committee stage . |
| 5 | Our client has been making regular visits to the property , usually at weekends , during which he maintains it as well as performing a security function . |
| 6 | We are able to look forward to pastures new this year thanks to our Sites Officer Tony Message who has been adding new farmland to our club 's existing search areas . |
| 7 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 8 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 9 | It subsequently emerged that Lady Essex had been administering debilitating potions to her husband and was implicated in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury , who knew too much about this . |
| 10 | The Belgrade-based news agency Tanjug quoted Serb forces as saying Muslims had been using heavy artillery to bombard Serb positions in the Bratunac region of eastern Bosnia . |
| 11 | The pilot had been flying spare parts to the European frontline when the 2,500 mile trip from Newfoundland ended . |
| 12 | If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit . |
| 13 | It was n't intended ; none of them had been paying any attention to the world round about : they 'd all but walked into one another . |
| 14 | This comment is from a daughter who had been giving substantial care to her mother , and explained the situation thus , |
| 15 | The minister had been giving pastoral counselling to a youth with a disturbed relationship to his parents , particularly his mother . |
| 16 | Although he was chary of broaching the subject of a full-time shepherd , when he did so , he found that his father had been giving some thought to the matter . |
| 17 | The British Eighth Army 's V Corps , where he was a staff officer , had been giving top priority to Operation Beehive , preparing a strategy to fight the Yugoslavs if necessary . |
| 18 | I 've been giving some thought to the content of the next magazine with which I hope you can help . |
| 19 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of our magazine Rural Wales / Cymru Wledig , and I would like to persuade you to contribute the next Comment Column ( see page 2 of the magazine ) . |
| 20 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of Rural Wales/ Cymru Wledig , and to the contribution you could make . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been giving some thought to our — problem , ’ he stated . |
| 22 | We have been teaching electronic publishing to undergraduate students for some ten years now , and to computer science undergraduates for six years . |
| 23 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
| 24 | Yet another victim , no doubt , of this Government 's crippling monetary policies , policies which have been driving this country to economic ruin for the past 13 years , and which can be alleviated only by the immediate election of a Labour government . |
| 25 | Natural scientists have been giving increasing attention to GEC , both nationally and internationally , but many of the questions confronting policymakers and citizens can only be answered through research in the social sciences . |
| 26 | We have been offering similar sessions to the public for the past 18 months . |