Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since taking over from Left-winger David Hunt , former Thatcherite Mr Redwood has been trying to reassure the Welsh that there will be no dramatic change in Welsh Office policy . |
| 2 | The council has been trying to sell the half-timbered historic mansion in Royden Park for more than two years and has put a £1m price tag on it . |
| 3 | The council has been trying to sell the halftimbered historic mansion in Royden Park for more than two years and has put a £1m price tag on it . |
| 4 | FOR SEVERAL years , my husband has been trying to join the Labour Party . |
| 5 | The Klan has been trying to recruit a new type of kid : young , middle-class and white . |
| 6 | Since she was rejected last year , the council has been trying to find an alternative service for the island . |
| 7 | Since then the ILN has been seeking to find a new readership . |
| 8 | Now to the second of our reports from HMS Gloucester , which has been helping to enforce the United Nations sanctions against Serbia . |
| 9 | Along with with Robin Harris , past director of Conservative research department , who is joining the Downing Street policy unit , John O'Sullivan , editor of the US National Review and Sir Ronald Millar , playwright , Mr Patten has been helping to write the Prime Minister 's speech for today 's keynote address . |
| 10 | Nationally , the company has been attempting to win a higher degree of commitment from the workforce . |
| 11 | The trust has been fundraising to build a modern workshop alongside the cruck-framed barn . |
| 12 | Since 1975 the Treasury has been working to lengthen the average maturity of the debt , and with good reason . |
| 13 | The , the committee which has been probing probing the massive pensions theft by former Mirror publisher Robert Maxwell warns that this could be just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 14 | Mrs Jordan said she supported local councillor Joe Michna who has been fighting to save the common and to stop the sports complex licence . |
| 15 | It depends on his attitude , if he 'd been trying to pull a fast one on you and er |
| 16 | After it was removed to make more space , it was given to the Earl of Harcourt who 'd been planning to build a gothic folly in the grounds of his Nuneham Courtney estate . |
| 17 | In writing thus , Schoenberg must have been trying to hide the main defect in this kind of quartal harmony — its tendency to become over-obvious and mechanical . |
| 18 | Three people with incendiary devices were found in a car … they said they had been intending to commit a serious crime and they just walk out of court . |
| 19 | Mr Clarke unknowingly stole the thunder of Douglas Hurd , the Home Secretary , who had been intending to make a veiled public appeal for more cash for the police services in the law and order debate . |
| 20 | She had been trying to marshal a persuasive line of argument in her mind . |
| 21 | They had been trying to maintain a steady pace , between hopping and running , and it had come hard . |
| 22 | He felt certain that Paul Lexington had been trying to pull a fast one on his coproducer . |
| 23 | Since then he had been trying to write the second book . |
| 24 | By contrast , the Scottish Tories had been lobbying to keep the maximum personal element . |
| 25 | I 've been hoping to find the right opportunity for weeks . |
| 26 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been trying to find a tactful way to drop him for ages . ’ |
| 28 | Mrs Draper says they 've been trying to get a larger home for years . |
| 29 | If you 've been meaning to see a few West End shows , why not try a theatre package from a company like Forte Hotels ( 0345–543555 ) ? |
| 30 | I 've been dying to make a good ginger pudding for years ! |