Example sentences of "has [been] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer until now has been to put them in geriatric units . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 3 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 5 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 6 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 7 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 8 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 9 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 10 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 11 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 12 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 13 | Griffiths suggests that the legacy of Descartes to the philosophical understanding of emotions has been to subsume them into one of two categories , mind or body , and to make them rational or non-rational . |
| 14 | Because he knows that somebody else has has been offered it for twenty quid . |