Example sentences of "have [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having worked his way up via his own live spoof chat show Vic 's Big Night Out , he has latterly been guesting on television 's One Hour With Jonathan Ross , a show whose format bears a strong resemblance to Reeves 's own showcase . |
| 2 | The three islands councils , Highland Region and Highlands and Islands Enterprise , plus a representative of the district councils and possibly the health boards , will meet to thrash out a list of priorities , as has already been happening under Objective 5b . |
| 3 | Paul Parker , United 's England defender who has also been missing through injury , hopes to prove his fitness for the Rumbelows Cup final in a reserve game against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane this evening . |
| 4 | The company has also been growing by acquisition , with the purchase earlier this year of the American pumpmaker Peabody Floway using £12m of its £46m cash . |
| 5 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 6 | Erm , and has recently been going to dress-making classes , but she nothing to anybody at work . |
| 7 | They had all been working at stone-gathering , keeping their pageant money out of sight for fear the constables mark them as robbers or miracle-workers . |
| 8 | Girls had obviously been standing in line for this man from the first day he 'd put on long trousers — or even earlier , she thought grimly . |
| 9 | The NUWW and the LNA had long been campaigning for legislation to raise the age of consent to eighteen and to enforce more stringent penalties against procurers and brothel-keepers . |
| 10 | So Trumbull started moving the camera in and out , and stopped the lens down to a tiny aperture for maximum depth of field ( he had already been experimenting with zoom lenses for the cockpit readouts in other sequences ) . |
| 11 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 12 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 13 | Until the sudden realisation that the world 's best kept secret was about to be broken , Ashe , because of special affinity with Yannick Noah and his own long run as the United States Davis Cup captain , had probably been reading with interest about the rise and fall of Noah as captain of the French Davis Cup Team . |
| 14 | For the first time Joe realised that Tony had really been lacking in confidence . |
| 15 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 16 | They had undoubtedly been asking for trouble . |
| 17 | Patrickson had certainly been mining at Tilberthwaite on a lease from Sir William Pennington the date of which is obscure . |
| 18 | Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis . |
| 19 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 20 | USL and Univel have apparently been working under non-disclosure with Intel to ensure the kernel wrings specific new performance possibilities from Intel 's anticipated 80586 chip , the P5 . |
| 21 | ‘ Most of these players took part last year and were delighted with the facilities and hospitality ’ says Sean Curtis : ‘ We aim to make this year 's tournament even better and , believe me , the phones have already been buzzing in relation to tickets even though they will not available until the end of this month . ’ |
| 22 | I have just been watching on television the final scenes from the Royal Shakespeare Company 's performance of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 23 | Indeed , as I write this , I have just been watching on television Lord Denning declaring with self-satisfaction that he puts all such letters straight into the wastepaper basket . |
| 24 | ‘ I have just been speaking to Officer Hassan . |
| 25 | In addition to such major discoveries , many parts of which have not yet been published , other sources have gradually been coming to light or , after long suppression , are being circulated and studied . |
| 26 | The children have both been coming to ballet since they were three and they have loved it . ’ |
| 27 | Unit-linked policies by and large have performed fairly well over the last few years and have consequently been growing in popularity . |
| 28 | I have certainly been screaming with loneliness for as long as I can remember . |
| 29 | The calculation of unemployment statistics is somewhat different in Australia , the United States , Canada and Japan where sample surveys are taken to estimate the total number of people who are without jobs but have actually been searching for work during the sample period . |
| 30 | Bob Dylan called him ‘ America 's greatest poet ’ and Smokey 's mischievous couplets and metaphors have never been lacking in ingenuity . |