Example sentences of "has [been] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STEPHEN HENDRY has been living under a Fatal Attraction nightmare since September . |
| 2 | Another man has been existing in a tiny cell in Georgia for 20 years — waiting to die . |
| 3 | Since you left me so abruptly , my mind has been teeming with a whole variety of things I 'd like to do to you . ’ |
| 4 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 5 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 6 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 7 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 8 | on the other hand , while the CA has been operating as a separate agency for two years , 24 per cent of the NIC specialists who completed the survey were unaware of its existence . |
| 9 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 10 | Retail price maintenance still being lawful in the case of books , the publisher might well include the recommended retail price on the cover of the book ( or in an advertisement ) , only to be surprised subsequently to learn that a retailer has been selling at a different price . |
| 11 | Roger Kelly , who coordinates its work explains : ‘ For 15 years this place has been going through a slow , organic evolution . |
| 12 | Sony has been working on a new Walkman which allows you to watch films as you go around . |
| 13 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 14 | Yet Jennifer in recent months has been growing through a difficult spell in the growing up process , particularly mentally . |
| 15 | Provided that the sea has been eroding for a sufficient length of time a negative movement of base level results in a raised beach , consisting as a rule of an eroded platform of solid rocks with or without a covering of beach deposits . |
| 16 | Hamlet the out-of-work thespian pig has been appearing in a weekly strip in ‘ The Stage ’ since 1988 . |
| 17 | Lasagna explains : ‘ The West has been behaving in a miserly way towards the Russians . |
| 18 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 19 | The same applies to anyone , tall or short , who has been dieting for a lengthy period already , and generally to those who are only a few pounds overweight . |
| 20 | ‘ People see Romania and Albania in the media all the time now but Poland has been suffering for a long time and people are still very much in need of our help , ’ she said . |
| 21 | THE list of processes thought to occur abiotically at the Earth 's surface has been shrinking on a yearly basis . |
| 22 | The experts say that for a woman over about 40 , SERPS is definitely going to be better , and if she has been paying into a contracted out PP scheme up to that time , she should change over then . |
| 23 | Khalid Fakhro , director of the Marine Emergency Mutual Aid Centre in Bahrain , told New Scientist this week that 2000 barrels of oil ( half previous estimates ) has been flowing from a war-damaged platform in the Iranian Nowruz field every day since the end of January . |
| 24 | ‘ Ellison has been playing in a central midfield role for the youth team . |
| 25 | The hon. Member for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) has been arguing against a regional band for London , thereby costing his constituents about £66 a year , based on average house prices in London . |