Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader of Britain 's biggest union has been touring an old industrial battleground , to see how times have changed . |
| 2 | As part of a national sponsorship managed through WWF , the Central Electricity Generating Board has been funding the key conservation post of warden for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Naturalists ' Trust . |
| 3 | ‘ She paid her own ticket from Australia for the interview , and has been running a much-respected heavy metal magazine there , ’ said Dave . |
| 4 | For too long this dirty old man in red has been adopting the friendly old buffer guise to get his kicks from young and innocent children . |
| 5 | And the party has been devising an environmentally-friendly economic strategy . |
| 6 | Patrick Faigenbaum has been immortalising the ancient noble families of Rome and Naples in cruel photographic portraits . |
| 7 | ‘ Hello , love , ’ said her father , coming in from the kitchen where he had been shelling the succulent fresh prawns that would form part of a cold seafood and salad lunch , before the hot turkey dinner this evening . |
| 8 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
| 9 | Only then did he fully realize that he had been experiencing a mild dull pressure in the head , as well as the nausea , physical and mental fatigue . |
| 10 | This significant increase in industrial concentration through merger activity would not have been possible if the government had been operating a tough anti-merger policy . |
| 11 | Sammy , who had been watching the slight twitching movements that Willie had made in his sleep , now stood at his feet . |
| 12 | Matthew had been making a detailed fire-protection plan for the acres which Fairfax had wanted to replant or afforest . |
| 13 | At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit . |
| 14 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
| 15 | Sir Matthew Baltravers ( she told me ) had been hosting the amateur operatic society , to which she belonged . |
| 16 | Most of the ‘ masters ’ of torture said that they had been fighting a desperate unseen war , whose atmosphere could not be imagined by people from democracies . |
| 17 | Cardiff could see that he had attached a microphone of some kind to the metal container which still rested on the chair and which had been giving the so-called mysterious ‘ readings ’ . |
| 18 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 19 | The forward ceptors had been showing a bright little disc that was the planet Fraxilly , steadily enlarging as we crept near to it on planetary drive . |
| 20 | The Continental Palace orchestra had been playing the new popular melody " Tea for Two " as he came out onto the terrace , and he had been faintly surprised in the event that nobody had turned to stare at him . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been learning the ancient Japanese martial art of san tu dang for about 10 years now and that helps me keep my weight constant . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been saying the exact same thing with regard to this Mr Wrong she 's so darned keen on . ’ |
| 23 | They 've been restoring a battered old narrowboat . |
| 24 | The vast majority of obese people have been eating a normal unhealthy diet , and changing is a matter of education and attitude as well as trial and error . |
| 25 | Japanese researchers have been subjecting the real seven-storey building to ‘ pseudodynamic testing ’ . |
| 26 | The hills around the city are held by Serbian forces , and the Hercules have been using a special steep landing technique , to keep them out of range of the rebel guns until the very last minute . |
| 27 | Some organisations already implement voluntary eco-audits , and some have been piloting the new British Standard 7750 . |
| 28 | If you have been following a normal varied British pattern of eating you have probably been consuming less dietary fibre than you need for health protection , but it is unlikely that you are deficient in minerals and vitamins . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's all very well people telling us we are a really attractive side to watch , ’ he said , ‘ but we have been conceding the odd soft goal and that 's got to stop . |
| 30 | To date we have been permitting an additional smoking break in the morning and again in the afternoon for smokers within the office as part of the agreement to have no smoking throughout the main parts of Chesser House . |