Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd dived , you see , but eventually they had to surface — the air must 've been getting bad — and up they came , drew nearly alongside a German destroyer the pack had left behind when they called off the hunt , waiting there , just in case Taureg surfaced . |
| 2 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 3 | ‘ I see you 've been having more fun and games ! ’ |
| 4 | The medical treatments for some of the illnesses you may experience are improving all the time . |
| 5 | Friends and colleagues , most of you I expect are experiencing heavy increases in house and car insurance . |
| 6 | In The Art Newspaper No. 16 March 1992 p. 6 we published the fears of some art historians that this exhibition might have been infiltrated by fakes ; in the event these fears have proved to be groundless and the show has been enjoying great success . |
| 7 | It has been enjoying spectacular growth for its sales of the super absorbent polymers which make nappies that much more comfortable . |
| 8 | Unknown or overlooked by most museum professionals , a series of major international art exhibitions has been enjoying unusual success in the Tennessee capital . |
| 9 | Genetic Engineering : This is a first attempt to legislate in this area , currently dealt with by voluntary codes of practice , because science has been moving quicker than the law makers . |
| 10 | The Co Londonderry school has been promoting greater European awareness since September and has arranged two foreign trips to mark their continued efforts . |
| 11 | One of the biggest problems facing task forces has been collecting accurate data . |
| 12 | Wrexham Maelor council has been collecting historical and architectural items of interest for a decade . |
| 13 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |
| 14 | In the vestry and in his bungalow , under the pretext of extra rehearsal , he has been fondling these big brown girls and offering them cigarettes and money for sex . |
| 15 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 16 | I think Megan has been learning Gaelic I think , she 's not a native by any means but But Ian 's wife you know |
| 17 | Hay has been enduring considerable back pain for a number of years . |
| 18 | Transition from school to adult and working life has been receiving increased attention in most developed countries over the last decade . |
| 19 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 20 | The emotionally devastating effects of non-accidental injury , especially to children , has been receiving dramatic mass media coverage recently . |
| 21 | At long last , Antoni Tàpies , the important Catalan master , has been receiving proper attention in the international markets . |
| 22 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 23 | A project designed to keep bored youngsters from resorting to car crime by giving them motorbikes to play with has been receiving some expert advice . |
| 24 | Latterly , Lima has been receiving more migrants from the poorest and remotest departments . |
| 25 | Batty has been receiving electric shock treatment in a bid to cure the ankle ligament damage he sustained against Coventry on October 31 . |
| 26 | Our National Development Officer , Pat Palmer , qualified as a Medau Teacher in 1974 , since when she has been taking recreational classes in Kent and South london and teaching secondary school girls in Peckham . |
| 27 | The 28-year-old actor has been taking some time off to get his life back in order after filming three movies due out this year . |
| 28 | The Cabinet outcast managed to upstage Kenneth Baker , the Conservative party chairman , who has been taking acting lessons from Kenneth Branagh . |
| 29 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 30 | SCIAF has been supporting income-generation schemes for AIDS sufferers in Uganda as well as training and counselling , and it is expected that demands for assistance with AlDS-related projects will increase substantially in the next few years . |