Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 2 | Hard experimental evidence for the existence of this energy has been lacking due to the imperfections of both chemical and molecular physics , as well as self-imposed restrictions on the imagination . |
| 3 | The star has been getting used to the infatuations of Luke-crazed girls . |
| 4 | He says that the river has been getting cleaner over the years so this is a setback . |
| 5 | He says that the river has been getting cleaner over the years so this is a setback . |
| 6 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 7 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 8 | Moshe Gerstenhaber , chairman of Kall-Kwik Printing , has been using this as a promotional feature : ‘ If ever evidence was needed to prove the merits of franchising , the present difficult trading conditions have to be an example . ’ |
| 9 | A flotilla of surfers and canoes has been riding one of the year 's biggest Severn Bores . |
| 10 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 11 | Jim is a founder member of the Elderslie Boys Club — which has been going strong in the area for seven years — and the Stoddards employee has himself contributed 17 years to Boys football . |
| 12 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 13 | Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer . |
| 14 | But as Ian McGeechan himself said : ‘ He has been playing some of the best rugby of his life . ’ |
| 15 | Ironically , it has been one of the board 's own employees , Dr Ross Hesketh , who has been questioning many of the rather bland assurances on what has happened to British plutonium from the civil programme . |
| 16 | ‘ He 'd been wearing this over the shirt he wore for the sitting , ’ Edwards said , ‘ and at the end of the last sitting just as he was leaving , as an afterthought , he said , ‘ Oh you better have this ’ and took it off and gave it to me , like the end of a football match . ’ |
| 17 | He 'd been working one of the axle springs free on an old Cortina when the jack had given way . |
| 18 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 19 | Opioid use is the top category , and individuals in this group may also have been using any of the drugs in the other five categories . |
| 20 | Barbiturates are the second hierarchical category , and individuals in this group may have been using any of the drugs in the four categories below , but not opioids . |
| 21 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 22 | But for the alteration in taxation in the Budget and also the minor alterations in projected expenditure which preceded it , we should have been facing 1968/69 with the identical prospect of a further creation of additional purchasing power . |
| 23 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 24 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 25 | Finn must have been lying awake in the darkness , as she was , the wall separating them like Tristan 's sword , for she could hear the soft murmur of him and Francie talking together for a little while , but she could not make out one word . |
| 26 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 27 | Alex 's strange position in the production must have been making all of the usual understudy agonies even worse . |
| 28 | ‘ At the time of the murder he appears to have been lying low in a barn near Gainsborough . |
| 29 | Malvern had been struggling most of the way on the only wet and windy day in an otherwise idyllic week . |
| 30 | Richard used a new toothbrush which Martin had been saving fresh from the cellophane . |