Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the same courage she showed in the playground , Howey has been competing in senior international events since the age of 15 , winning the world and European junior championships as well as senior bronze and silver medals at world and European level . |
| 2 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman is aware of the fact that unemployment has been rising in most European Community countries and that it is higher than it was a year ago in every EFTA and G7 country . |
| 3 | Margaret has been teaching in that particular home for five years . |
| 4 | It is tough on criminals and supportive of police , and it has been languishing in these hallowed halls for years now . " |
| 5 | Mr Portillo has been meeting with two leading Conservative Councillors from Oxfordshire to discuss the impact of the Poll Tax on the County . |
| 6 | But over the last twenty years a ‘ new long-stay ’ population has been accumulating on acute psychiatric wards . |
| 7 | Graydon has been working with several large UK organisations on a remedial approach to corporate risk assessment |
| 8 | It will be presumed that death has occurred if the Policyholder has been missing for 90 consecutive days and sufficient evidence is provided to support the conclusion that death was caused by accident . |
| 9 | The SDIO has been concentrating on limited ground-based systems . |
| 10 | Olivia Ensor ( Mrs Coolidge ) has been exhibiting in various local art exhibitions . |
| 11 | The National Front has been suffering from two other developments on the French political scene . |
| 12 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |
| 13 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 14 | Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings . |
| 15 | What could he have been doing in that little field but reconnoitring the back premises of the house at the far end — even breaking in , there had been burglaries lately . |
| 16 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 17 | What he had not bargained for was the fact that these two Gardai had been listening to well-articulated feminist rhetoric all afternoon and were still reeling from the effects . |
| 18 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 19 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 20 | Throughout 1838 , Darwin had been allowing for Lyellian competitive defeats to extinguish some species before their predetermined ageing overcame them . |
| 21 | It was wild and erratic , as though she had been writing under severe emotional strain . |
| 22 | An article in the Timber Trades Journal reported Michael Latham , chairman of a major UK timber firm and then president of the European tropical timber importers union , as saying that : ‘ The entry of the WWF into the field enlarged the scale of the problem for the timber trade , since before that time the trade had been dealing with small local conservationist groups ’ . |
| 23 | Direct Line Insurance is Britain 's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years . |
| 24 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 25 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 26 | Henderson had been working for British secret services for 20 years , it was revealed last night . |
| 27 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 28 | A brain scan showed extensive bleeding around the brain , and the specialists concluded that Guy had been suffering from internal bleeding since his accident on the previous day . |
| 29 | An autopsy revealed that the pilot had been suffering from severe coronary artery disease . |
| 30 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |