Example sentences of "has [been] [verb] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she has been eating a very large quantity of food and has recently embarked on a calorie-counting slimming programme . |
| 2 | While the hon. Gentleman has been travelling up and down the country assuring the training and enterprise councils of his support , the hon. Member for Fife , Central , his fellow Front-Bench spokesman on these matters , has been singing a somewhat different tune . |
| 3 | From the Blake Babies to ‘ Hey Babe ’ , JULIANA HATFIELD has been crafting a deceptively sweet , unnervingly direct antidote to foxcore screaming . |
| 4 | The Silkience Hair Range , well known for its self-adjusting formula , has been given a completely new look . |
| 5 | She wore a faintly sly and greedy look , like a child who has been promised a rather disreputable treat if it 's good . |
| 6 | ‘ Louise has been doing a very limited amount of training because of her exams , ’ said Charles Stuart , her father and coach . |
| 7 | A LASMO-operated group has been awarded a highly prospective block in Yemen , adjacent to major discoveries . |
| 8 | Thus from a very narrow and restricted expression there has been drawn a very wide and unrestricted principle , all based on the assumed purpose of Parliament and the perceived absurdity of seeking to effect it by the language in which Parliament actually chose to express it . |
| 9 | Even ( some might say especially ) in purely trading terms , Britain has been paying a very high price for her membership of the EEC . |
| 10 | Along with many aspects of Society organisation , the Teacher Training Course is always under review , Last year , to offset the Sports Council 's view that our training takes too long , we embarked upon Course II , which has been following a more intensive schedule . |