Example sentences of "[been] studying " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laird had been studying Cameron with unwavering attention . |
| 2 | His friend Morton , who had recently been studying art and sculpture in London , mentioned his parents ' old friends , the Pullmans , who had a place in Hampstead . |
| 3 | It is in any case certain that for years before Homage to Sextus Propertius Pound had been studying , not for their content chiefly but as models of musical form , the poems in quantitative metre of ancient Greece . |
| 4 | Anne Keddy Hector , Robert Seyfarth and Michael Raleigh at the Universities of California and Pennsylvania have been studying parental behaviour among captive vervets to see if males ' parental ability affected the females ' choice of mate . |
| 5 | So far today they have been studying how orders for an operation are given and the particular way in which the Army goes about explaining a complex undertaking . |
| 6 | Therefore , there must be value elsewhere and I have been studying the other prices . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , at the Boston University School of Medicine , Gladys Friedler has been studying the offspring from the pairing of healthy female mice with male mice that have been briefly exposed to chemicals about a week before mating . |
| 8 | The Senate Judiciary Committee has also been studying evidence that the death penalty discriminates against black Americans . |
| 9 | For several decades they have been studying superbly preserved fossils from the rocks of the Burgess shale , found in the Canadian Rockies , which are among the earliest fossils of complicated organisms . |
| 10 | He told me he had been studying poetry with Enright , and that he wrote poetry too . |
| 11 | I had been studying a guide-book to Zamora before we left . |
| 12 | One of Kylie 's entourage , an aide and friend , explained : ‘ She has been studying the Atlas carefully for nearly two months , before she is ready to step on a soap box or address meetings . |
| 13 | Dr Johnny Birks has been studying mink for many years and he admits with some reluctance that this extremely successful marten may have contributed to the vole 's decline . |
| 14 | The researchers , who have been studying the organism for more than eight years , say it will be several years before a vaccine becomes widely available . |
| 15 | Every year several of the participants have said to me , ‘ I have been studying in Britain for a year , but this is the first time I have been inside a British home ’ . |
| 16 | But they were a substantial minority , and those historians who have recently been studying inheritance have reached some interesting conclusions . |
| 17 | He had been studying soil fungi since 1916 , and wrote a survey of the known inhibitors in 1940 , but his effective contribution to medicine came after the very modest success of tyrocidin and the very great success of penicillin . |
| 18 | Emma , who has been studying piano with Teresa Ardagh Walters at Holybourne Vicarage for about 18 months , also plays the cello and is a member of the Hampshire county string training orchestra . |
| 19 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 20 | When he came to the College , Coleman was presumably almost totally ignorant of veterinary matters ( although he may have been studying the subject during the ‘ interregnum ’ ) . |
| 21 | The photographer had obviously been studying portraits of Betty Grable and other film stars and was trying to be very artistic , with much back lighting and fluffing out of hair , and I must admit that my hair ( touching my shoulders , naturally ) , did look nice . |
| 22 | Andrew Lyne , who has been studying the millisecond pulsar from Jodrell Bank , told New Scientist ‘ What will be interesting is to compare the arrival times of the optical pulses with the radio ’ . |
| 23 | Convincing evidence that animals actually do operate this way comes from James Serpell of the University of Cambridge ( Animal Behaviour , vol 30 , p 1244 ) , who has been studying the aggressive behaviour of nine species of tropical parrots of the genus Trichoglossus . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not science , ’ says Alex Perge of the Department of Energy 's nuclear waste office , which has been studying the possibility of dumping tonnes of slightly contaminated soil left over from the Manhattan nuclear project . |
| 25 | Since the beginning of December , experts have been studying a brand-new missile called Alarm from British Aerospace , and the American equivalent known as Harm . |
| 26 | ‘ Come in , Master Clerk , ’ he called , throwing down the manuscript he had been studying . |
| 27 | Lately I have been studying the paintings of an abstract expressionist named Diebenkorn . |
| 28 | Since its inception , the unit has been studying the submarine geology of the area around Scotland by using various sampling and geophysical techniques , and numerous maps and reports have been produced . |
| 29 | So far , that 's what we 've been studying with the 8th note groove and the 16th note groove . |
| 30 | I 've been studying these boys and I can till you they 're bloodee slow — so lit 's git out there and run the ligs off them ! ’ |