Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see you 've been having more fun and games ! ’ |
| 2 | Over recent years , China has been undergoing large-scale reform and the management processes are changing rapidly . |
| 3 | He has been undergoing expensive treatment and is trying to raise cash for the Ray Kennedy Trust Fund to help sufferers of the disease . |
| 4 | So Elizabeth , who has been composing magic words and tunes for more than 50 years , paid her new generation of fans a visit . |
| 5 | Over the weekend he has been at the Spring Thing folk festival at Darlington Arts Centre , where he has been selling home-made ear-rings and Asian crafts . |
| 6 | Mr Brown has been having increasing pain and a " dragging " sensation in his right groin . |
| 7 | Roll-A-Joint has been disappointing this season and if he runs will be meeting Cool Ground on a stone worse terms , while Little Polveir is a stone better off with Cool Ground , who , at 10-1 , is the other each-way bet . |
| 8 | Russia has been showing former dissidents and émigrés in Moscow 's and St Petersburg 's best museums but almost all the exhibitions have had Western sponsors . |
| 9 | In the intervening months , SL has been adding user-level threads and features of the SVR4.2 Destiny desktop to what will eventually emerge as Unix SVR4.3 or like ( UX No 397 ) . |
| 10 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
| 11 | He had big banks of lights and speakers on either side of his console with some lower-level relays here in the ballroom ; he 'd been running some smoke and dry ice earlier , and some of it still hung in the air and gave the lighted area beyond the doorways the effect of some offworld film set . |
| 12 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 13 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 14 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 15 | The pair had been drinking all day and Jones downed more than 10 pints , while Miss Smith , 29 , drank six or seven pints of cider , Nottingham Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 16 | Even in 1981 it could be claimed that those who held a " strongly anti-progressive , pro-standards line had been enjoying increasing credibility and increasingly strident support from most of the popular press " ( Dale et al. |
| 17 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 18 | He had been writing short stories and inventing film scripts since his childhood but it was not until 1940 that one was accepted for publication by Cyril Connolly [ q.v. ] in Horizon . |
| 19 | However , the City had been expecting bad figures and the shares rose 15p to 239p . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | It had been raining all night and in the stillness of morning the clouds and mist had not yet cleared . |
| 22 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 23 | The Free French group , however , had been making excellent progress and were well on the way to becoming operational . |
| 24 | " They had been heaping dried brackens and whins , with peats here and there among the pelf , in a line along the trench ; and one struck a light with his flint and fired the pile . |
| 25 | However , the spokesman said : ‘ It now looks as though they had been fighting each other and nobody else was involved . ’ |
| 26 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 28 | We are ready , we 've been eating raw meat and some of us can still move which is a major bonus to us |
| 29 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 30 | Or , I 've been scrubbing all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner . |