Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 2 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 3 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 4 | Industrial production has been falling in many of the world 's largest economies — over the last year it has fallen 2 per cent in Italy ; by 2.5 per cent in France ; by 6.5 per cent in Germany ; and by 7 per cent in Japan . |
| 5 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 6 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 7 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 8 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 9 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 10 | At this point , a young woman who 'd been sitting on one of Bridget 's sofas jumped angrily to her feet and shouted at Geoffrey . |
| 11 | At half past three Kaptan and I should have been reading from one of the textbooks but , in fact , I was lying in the Colonel 's hammock while Kaptan , with his inexhaustible energy , was trying to catch frogs . |
| 12 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 13 | A woman accomplice , who had been hiding in one of the cubicles , came out and the two ran off , leaving the victim sprawled on the floor , said Acting Insp Smart . |
| 14 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 15 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 16 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 17 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 18 | It was particularly disappointing as the Scots had shown signs of a refreshing midfield arrogance which had been missing from many of their recent displays . |
| 19 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |
| 20 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 21 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 23 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 24 | I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh ! |
| 25 | The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties . |
| 26 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 27 | Yet mystics have been saying for thousands of years that we are all aspects of a greater whole — that our separateness is an illusion , that we are ultimately One . |
| 28 | ‘ There it is — the bush — trees that have been standing for hundreds of years . ’ |
| 29 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 30 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |