Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
| 2 | Samsung has been collaborating with HP on some of the low-end PA 7100 widgets , which are ready to pop next month . |
| 3 | Samsung has been collaborating with Hewlett-Packard on some of the low-end PA 7100 machines , which are planned to appear next month . |
| 4 | He has been competing on wheels for some 28 years . |
| 5 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 6 | The Halifax , which has been experimenting with auctions for several months , had no fewer than 82 repossessed houses and flats in the sale . |
| 7 | It will be convenient to mark the distinctions I have been drawing by means of certain semiotic terms . |
| 8 | Bosses at Toys R Us , which has been opening on Sundays for more than a year , say the extra day is a definite boost to sales . |
| 9 | However , according to Zakrewski the government has ruled that the duty-free import quotas will only be divided up among home-grown or foreign companies that have been assembling in Poland for two years , while other firms will face levies at the old rates . |
| 10 | Further south , the coastal merchants of west Africa had been trading with Europe for several centuries . |
| 11 | The aim of this legislation , as the Supreme Court noted , is to facilitate economic development , although it is fair to add that lenders both from within and outside the country have been pressing for change for some time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All those changes must have been happening in parallel with these other ones . |
| 14 | He tells us what 's been happening in Deptford since this morning , and it sounds like I 've been away seven months . |
| 15 | What 's been happening in theology in recent years ? |
| 16 | The 1900s saw the opening of a number of new centres and missions for the deaf , among them Bury , West Ham , Plymouth and Chester ( although the latter had first been meeting at Stockport from 1889 onwards ) . |
| 17 | JANE MACQUITTY has been writing about wine since 1975 and is wine correspondent for The Times . |
| 18 | The first of such groups was Ketley 's Building Society known to have been operating in Birmingham in 1775 . |
| 19 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 20 | A mobile eye screening unit has been operating in Tayside since 1990 . |
| 21 | The Safer City Project , has been operating in Wirral since 1989 . |
| 22 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 23 | providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future . |
| 24 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
| 25 | They had been living at Riverstown for two months before the first invitation came . |
| 26 | We had been living in Canaan for ten years when Abraham started inviting me to his tent . |
| 27 | I have been living in Britain since 1970 , almost half of my life has been spent here . |
| 28 | Originally from Inverness , Mr Cordial and his family have been living in Durham for 40 years . |
| 29 | Lynn Schofield ( Mrs Haight ) has been living in Toronto since 1974 , where her husband is an E.N.T. specialist , and is at present Executive Assistant to the President of Scotiabank . |
| 30 | Niorin : I come from Ireland , and I 've been living in England since last summer . |