Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 2 | Until today 's new proposals Britain had been cautioning against such an operation because of the dangers to aircrew and the risk of killing or injuring people on the ground . |
| 3 | But Britain has been cautioning against such an operation because of the dangers to aircrew and the risk of killing or injuring people on the ground . |
| 4 | For a long time the industrious Bavarians had been preparing for such an attack . |
| 5 | Mail order houses ' share of total consumer spending on such goods has been increasing at such a rate that , within two or three years , it is likely to be double its 1970 level . |
| 6 | The improvement was attributed to the fact that the number of childhood deaths had been falling by 120,000 a year globally over the last five years . |
| 7 | He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him . |
| 8 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |