Example sentences of "has been [v-ing] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 2 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 3 | Nothing else need to have been done to overcome the current problems which the Home Secretary has been facing in the last year or two . |
| 4 | Although Mr Lamont has been staying in the Imperial Hotel with the rest of the Cabinet , he has held most of the talks in more down-market hotels along the Promenade . |
| 5 | ‘ Five Bellies ’ , who earns nearly £40,000 a year as Gazza 's companion and minder , has been staying in the Italian capital since the soccer star joined Lazio . |
| 6 | Another man has been existing in a tiny cell in Georgia for 20 years — waiting to die . |
| 7 | I hope your mind has been working in an expansive way and that you have thought more about your future . |
| 8 | HOPES were fading last night for an Anglesey man who has been missing in an Alaskan wilderness for five days . |
| 9 | Well the nurse has been coming in every second day . |
| 10 | Hamlet the out-of-work thespian pig has been appearing in a weekly strip in ‘ The Stage ’ since 1988 . |
| 11 | Lasagna explains : ‘ The West has been behaving in a miserly way towards the Russians . |
| 12 | We can plausibly infer that crime has been increasing in the last two to three decades , presenting a problem for explanation and policy . |
| 13 | ‘ Ellison has been playing in a central midfield role for the youth team . |
| 14 | He has been playing in the local Welsh leagues , has represented West Indies ‘ B ’ and is being keenly monitored by the county . |
| 15 | Under Cause and Onset look at what has been happening in the preceding hours or days to the onset of the illness and consider the speed with which the illness came on and the order of events . |