Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had , over many weeks , been siphoning petrol from a garage owner 's tank and lorries ; and the owner had , on this particular weekend , diluted the tank with water . |
| 2 | Certainly it is in the private sector , where the only bribe that counts is low prices , where fierce competition and price wars have been wreaking havoc among Europe 's surviving computer makers . |
| 3 | It was disclosed on Jan. 19 , 1989 , that FBI agents posing as commodity traders for nearly two years had been accumulating evidence of widespread fraud on the floors of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange . |
| 4 | The well-known argument is that the woman 's refusal to concede to sexual intercourse is totally unjustified , since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea , who has been sucking blood from them both . |
| 5 | In the early 1970s the local firm that had been producing soap since 1943 was closed down by the action of its major shareholder , who also owned an import agency . |
| 6 | For example , the well-established tradition of ‘ community studies ’ , which involves a researcher or a team of researchers using a wide variety of methods to study a whole community , has been producing work in both Britain and the USA almost continuously since the 1920s . |
| 7 | OSF HAS BEEN SUBMITTING MOTIF TO X/OPEN REGULARLY |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had been cooking rice for supper . |
| 10 | My right hon. Friend will be aware that HMS Norfolk — the first of the Duke class — has been accepted into the fleet and has been completing work-up at Portland . |
| 11 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 12 | The process of abandonment of the Czechoslovak federation had been gathering pace through the previous two months [ see pp. 38944-45 ; 39015 ] . |
| 13 | A primary purpose of the nine-day flight was to have been gathering evidence on how the human body adapted to weightlessness . |
| 14 | this has inaugurated a new kind of critical atmosphere and has been gathering conviction at the institutional and managerial level just as much as in the studios and in the discussions around art . |
| 15 | Of course the swell has been gathering force for a century or more , since Joseph Thompson first saw ‘ the most peculiar band of men to be found in Africa ‘ . |
| 16 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , a working party report urging positive action on equal opportunities by the Scottish Law Society has been gathering dust for more than a year . |
| 18 | Until then the compound had been gathering dust on the shelves of the company 's research laboratories on the campus at Reading University . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We have , however , been gathering information on task/standing groups as it arose at various Senior Management meetings . |
| 21 | Although it has yet to displace the older established metal in western sentiment , court jewellers have for some time been using platinum as a more appropriate setting for diamonds than gold . |
| 22 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 23 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main two facilities for drug users were daily users of heroin , and had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 24 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main treatment facilities in 1985–6 were daily users of heroin , who had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 25 | Consequently , the sample group had been using heroin for an average of five years when they were interviewed . |
| 26 | Given that most of the interviewee group had been using heroin for between four and five years , most had contacted their GP , and frequently several different GPs , on a number of occasions . |
| 27 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Hominids have been using fire in Africa for some 1–1.5 million years , but whether the early firing was the work of species of Australopithecus or Homo is not clear . |
| 30 | We have been drawing attention to the defects of the Labour party campaign , and I shall give just one example . |