Example sentences of "has been [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 2 | Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher . |
| 3 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 5 | On the domestic front , our big drive — and to date our big failure — has been to get the few men who live in the camps into the communal kitchens and to share in other tasks , like washing their own clothes , for example . |
| 6 | Exiled Nigerian poet Olu Oguibe has been awarded the All Africa Okigbo Prize for Literature for his collection A Gathering Fear ( Kraft Books ) . |
| 7 | [ See Fig. 2 ] Stromboli has been showing the same kind of activity more or less continuously for centuries , and is often called the ‘ lighthouse of the Mediterranean ’ . |
| 8 | Here , the 212-mile Southern Uplands Way which has been following the same route since Caldons Wood , heads further eastwards . |
| 9 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |