Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years industrial capitalist society has been casting off many of the more obvious outward signs of inner distress . |
| 2 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 3 | He might have been watching over all of them for a century . |
| 4 | they said they had been bringing in one of their nets , which had seemed very heavy . |
| 5 | The magazine had been consuming too much of his time even though , ideally , he ought to have been devoting more to it . |
| 6 | Like most defectors , Lyalin was suffering from delusions of grandeur and it was hard to judge whether he had been reading too much of Pincher 's material or books by Le Queux dating from the turn of the century . |
| 7 | My guess is he 's been selling off some of the better vintages over the past few years . ’ |