Example sentences of "[noun pl] been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no , but some sort of place , well when , when you look at these pictures now , the satellites been going twelve months , still going through |
| 2 | What had her eyes been seeing all this time ? |
| 3 | This agreement ( which gave formal recognition to what had for several decades been becoming established practice ) brings out well the complexities and ambiguities inherent in much of the administrative structure of old-regime Europe . |
| 4 | But , he said , last week the beleaguered Mr Major had found new friends in the SNP — which had for weeks been urging all-party opposition talks on the government of Scotland , but had been in secret negotiations with a Tory government . |
| 5 | That would only have been necessary had the troops been requisitioning other people 's equipment , rather than turning out with their own ambulances . |
| 6 | Although the British profession has not adopted a multi-media outlook with the celerity that many would wish , there are plenty of examples of public libraries with visual and aural collections , and the counties of Wiltshire , Somerset and Leicestershire have in recent years been offering significant audio-visual services to teachers and schools . |
| 7 | The plants had for the past three years been emitting toxic fumes which had caused skin diseases among the villagers , killed fish in local fishponds and contaminated farmlands . |
| 8 | ‘ In heaven 's name , what have the police been doing all these weeks ? ’ |