Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 2 | One of the problems with fighting the war is that the Americans and the British have been offering more and more arms to the Saudis and the Gulf states . |
| 3 | The problem faced by Detroit 's producers is that , while some new American cars have been panned as dumpy and boring , the Japanese have been rolling out a stream of glittering and highly praised new vehicles . |
| 4 | The Chinese have been inching back towards economic reform . |
| 5 | In earlier times the former had been underachieving educationally whereas the latter are now near the peak of their attainment level . |
| 6 | In its vast project to kick the mainframe habit and move to Unix-based client-server systems , Mead Corp 's database operator Mead Data Central Inc is spreading its favours around , and while some Unix business has gone to Hewlett-Packard Co , NCR Corp is also in there as a so-called strategic technology partner ( presumably its non-strategic technology partners are the people that supply the brooms they sweep the floor with ) as Mead moves existing applications off mainframes to a client-server environment : the two have been working together for the past year on projects to re-engineer access to the widely-used Lexis and Nexis on-line information services and create a new internal information system infrastructure and campus-wide network , and Mead is using NCR System 3000 symmetric multiprocessors and AT&T Co and NCR network products . |