Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of people campaigning against VAT on dometic fuel have been protesting in a torchlit demonstration in Glasgow 's George Square . |
| 2 | FOR 40 years , I have been dealing in a wide variety of paintings ranging from Old Masters to French Impressionists , Dutch Romantics to modern British pictures . |
| 3 | Since these results are obtained in animals that have been living in a normal environment , they mean that the clock originates , at least in these animals , from an abnormal ‘ internal ’ structure , the chromosome . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
| 5 | Rotosound have been experimenting with a new type of nickel plating which gives an exceptionally bright sound thanks to increased magnetic response . |
| 6 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 7 | But at least Holroyd leaves me in no doubt that I have been reading about a great phenomenon . |
| 8 | As general wisdom , the longer you have been saving towards a personal pension and the bigger the total contributions paid , the larger your pension will stand to be . |
| 9 | Yes , but I mean erm excuse me erm there are a lot of people who have been saying for a long time , the council are dragging their heels and they 're not doing anything . |
| 10 | The method of carbon dating is based on the assumption that these two reactions have been occurring at a constant rate for the past 15000 years . |
| 11 | Those boys have been playing with a short mallet since they were two . |
| 12 | Members of an operational group at Statoil 's office in Forushagen have been working on a tender exercise with Lagos site office . |
| 13 | The Test and County Cricket Board have been working on a detailed financial plan aimed at hosting the competition for the fourth time in 1995 . |
| 14 | The Test and County Cricket Board have been working on a detailed financial plan aimed at hosting the competition on British soil in 1995 . |
| 15 | The government said that it was clear that Mr Athulathmudali was yet another victim of the Tigers , who for more than a decade have been fighting for a separate Tamil state on the island . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 17 | ‘ For many years we have been waiting for a mighty star to appear in the heavens and now it has . |
| 18 | Along with the rest of the property sector , British Land 's shares have been trading at a considerable discount to its assets per share , and yesterday 's move is an attempt to close the 40 per cent gap which built up as institutions took a dimmer view of the market . |
| 19 | Since December they have been pouring from a new fissure in Etna , 7,500ft above sea level . |
| 20 | The TARDIS has brought the time-travellers back to Roman times — to 64 AD to be exact — and they have been holidaying in a deserted villa near a small town . |
| 21 | Royal reporters have been speculating on a new pregnancy for years , and members of the public have been no less nosy . |
| 22 | The engineering unions have been pressing for a 35-hour working week , but the deal at NEI — a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce — would satisfy their claim for a two-hour reduction in the working week . |
| 23 | Although the reprocessing plant itself has been shut for annual maintenance since February , discharges have been continuing at a reduced volume . |
| 24 | According to the Crewe Programme , the Youth have been going through a rocky period . |
| 25 | Soviet-American relations have been going through a bad patch since the beginning of the year , troubled by the crackdown on the Baltic states , differences in the Gulf war and an arms-control quarrel . |
| 26 | But after plunging towards the relegation zone with just four points from the previous 21 , he admitted : ‘ We have been going through a bad time and We needed this win . ’ |
| 27 | For some who have been caring for a dependent relative for many years the problems involved are only too familiar . |
| 28 | All day since dawn we have been lying on a soft bed of bluebells in a wood beside a river . |
| 29 | Advertising revenue seems to be , there seems to be sometimes that there is some slight pick up , the advertising associations predicting a pick up there , one or two companies who have been reporting , have been talking about a little upturn in the first quarter of this year . |
| 30 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |