Example sentences of "[adv] been [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it was really because Paul felt that everything was going really well with the partnership board , and he 'd been erm putting a lot of work in with people like erm from Scarborough , and John and er other people who are on the board , but he 'd rather been neglecting building up a really good working relationship with N Y T E C. |
| 2 | Prosecutors may feel that in serious cases of what has hitherto been threatening conduct under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5 might be proceeded against as affrays . |
| 3 | Well in the main lobbyist has been Ron who 's the who 's our elected campaigns officers and he 's quite literally been spending time treading the the hallowed halls of Westminster |
| 4 | Katharine Over has only been studying Japanese for a year , but she 's already considered good enough to act as an ambassador for Britain . |
| 5 | The Open Software Foundation has apparently been submitting Motif to X/Open Co Ltd on a regular six monthly basis over the last three or four years , sources are saying . |
| 6 | The folios and quartos laboured on so industriously by forgotten clerics and divines , the erudite editions of minor classical writers , have long been gathering dust in countless book shops . |
| 7 | He 's obviously been losing sleep about it . |
| 8 | Coun Williams said he had merely been following council policy . |
| 9 | That he had not been misappropriating money or land for his own benefit was shown by his dire financial straits which led to his brief imprisonment as a debtor . |
| 10 | However , given that users in the hidden sector are slightly younger , and have not been using heroin for as long as the known users , it does seem highly likely that many more of these ‘ hidden ’ users will surface , either because of prosecution , pregnancy , physical illness or their own decision to seek help of some sort . |
| 11 | Married women who had not been receiving support from their husband when they were first interviewed , and were therefore not expecting support from him during subsequent crises , had a much reduced risk of depression if they received help from someone else whom they had named as very close at the first interview . |
| 12 | She revealed that he had not been taking anti-depressant tablets prescribed by a doctor . |
| 13 | Yeah , no , if you , if you 're supporting it colleague , we 've not been taking support in all , all week and indeed I know how important it is and we 'll , pardon ? |
| 14 | In recent years the courts have not been making compensation orders as freely as perhaps they might . |
| 15 | They 've not been making money for years though |
| 16 | But Marie , although she had not been paying attention to his words , had been thinking , her mind wandering off along a track of its own . |
| 17 | A sign of a good teacher that you know ask a student a question , point out to him that he 's not been paying attention . |
| 18 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
| 19 | For several years , she had not been attending school regularly but had instead been sent on provincial theatre tours , first with a dancing troupe and later as a violinist or actress . |
| 20 | Erm cos I think a lot of the , I mean a lot of land redistribution had already been taking place in since about the since about January of nineteen forty six , so I think the May the fourth directive is just erm an official , well a secret official acceptance of this . |
| 21 | Its polythene wrapping looked vaguely torn and grubby , as if members of the Waitrose staff had already been playing catch with it . |
| 22 | The West had just been sending gold straight to Stalin 's coffers . ’ |
| 23 | However , some account-holders have not completed the form and have still been receiving interest from which tax has been deducted . |
| 24 | The heatwave which stole Ivano 's snowfields has also been wreaking rockfall havoc around the massif , with many normally safe routes becoming places to tread warily . |
| 25 | They 've also been recycling vinyl string pouches and have even decided to stop shining up their bronze strings by washing them in acid — still a common procedure for most string manufacturers . |
| 26 | John Richardson , the St Andrews-born father of Ryder Cup player Steve , has also been dispensing family golf wisdom . |
| 27 | Exploration of the Variscan thrust province in Belgium , southern Germany , and northern France has also been taking place , though on a much smaller scale than in North America , and so far without commercial success . |
| 28 | Work in generic science has also been taking place . |
| 29 | Hyundai has also been helping Empress Software do a Korean version of its RDBMS and 4GL under X11 and Open Look . |
| 30 | The Senate Judiciary Committee has also been studying evidence that the death penalty discriminates against black Americans . |