Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if a decision to cancel was going to be made it would have to be made now . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A stranger had been chatting with Mrs O for some time . |
| 4 | ‘ I did feel a bit ropey earlier in the week and a bug has been going around the club for sometime . |
| 5 | A COUPLE who know the heartache of losing a child have been looking after Brian McDermott 's grave . |
| 6 | Jim feels ‘ as if a demon had been whispering in his ear ’ and goes to his death with the whisper still sounding , killed by the people he had tried , in one final , tragic mistake , to save for the future . |
| 7 | Here , after a campaign has been running for some time , a sample survey is used , in which questions are asked about the brands in the market in question : |
| 8 | A crisis has been looming in dental care for 2 years , ever since The Health Service reorganised its payment system . |
| 9 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 10 | Arguably the only practical advantage in embalming was that it could reveal whether or not a person had been suffering from catalepsy . |
| 11 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |
| 12 | The government said that it was clear that Mr Athulathmudali was yet another victim of the Tigers , who for more than a decade have been fighting for a separate Tamil state on the island . |
| 13 | For over 2 months now , 1,200 tons of apples a day have been arriving at the Bulmers Cider factory in Hereford . |
| 14 | A friend had been looking after them . |
| 15 | A woman had been talking to him , but she had gone away . |
| 16 | Palestinian and Jordanian pressure for a summit had been mounting since April , and in early May Iraq announced that it would host the meeting . |
| 17 | A man had been walking over the ground outside . |
| 18 | A paperboy has been telling of his ordeal at the hands of a gunman . |
| 19 | A row 's been brewing over the identity of the REAL Miss Forest of Dean . |
| 20 | Twice a day for the best part of four decades a box has been arriving at the Palace containing the reports from British ambassadors overseas . |
| 21 | Ethel shook her head in puzzlement , but a gleam had been coming into Eames 's eyes . |
| 22 | But a lot 's been happening at Littlewoods lately . |
| 23 | ‘ But a lot 's been happening in the world since we 've been training here . ’ |
| 24 | A man whose house was twice hit by lightning in a fortnight has been talking about the experience , which bookmakers say is a two-billion-to one-chance … |
| 25 | The German girl killed by a lion had been sleeping in a tent like ours . |