Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The style of the Victorian era has been enjoying a revival , first with the conservatory and now reproduction cloches . |
| 2 | One of the largest Polish communities in Britain has been enjoying a style of dancing seldom seen outside its homeland . |
| 3 | Safety Officer , Dave Johnson , who has been promoting a number of initiatives , commented : ‘ It reflects the workforce 's commitment to better safety standards . ’ |
| 4 | A man has been telling a court how he tried to save the life of his brother . |
| 5 | A former inmate at Gloucester jail has been telling a jury how a senior prison officer beat him across the back . |
| 6 | A beautician has been telling a court she thinks Olympic javelin thrower , Tessa Sanderson , is a bitch for stealing her husband . |
| 7 | Since 1973 the Association of illustrators has been fulfilling a much needed role in the illustration industry . |
| 8 | In making his diplomatic push , Mr Bush agreed to continue US support for Unita , which has been receiving a covert aid programme of between $40-$50m ( £25-£30m ) a year . |
| 9 | He or she has been eating a very large quantity of food and has recently embarked on a calorie-counting slimming programme . |
| 10 | A working group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has been taking a fresh look at the problem , and its report was endorsed by the college this week . |
| 11 | She has been taking a small holiday . |
| 12 | In the latest in our occasional series , Inside the Globe , Wesley Smith has been taking a look behind the scenes at the Weather Department . |
| 13 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has been taking a break from the Bosnian crisis , to tackle less troubled waters closer to home . |
| 14 | Kim Barnes has been taking a look at what went wrong , and at the hopes for the New Year . |
| 15 | It has been known for some time that the Inland Revenue has been taking a close interest in the marketing practices of livestock farmers in parts of Wales and the West Country . |
| 16 | SCOTVEC has been addressing a number of issues including : |
| 17 | While the hon. Gentleman has been travelling up and down the country assuring the training and enterprise councils of his support , the hon. Member for Fife , Central , his fellow Front-Bench spokesman on these matters , has been singing a somewhat different tune . |
| 18 | The southern icy continent has been yielding a harvest of strange meteorites |
| 19 | In the meantime , the Examination Committee has been investing a good deal of effort in communicating with tutors , students , and training organisations about what is being tested in the examinations , by , for example , issuing definitions and illustrations of the skills assessed . |
| 20 | From the Blake Babies to ‘ Hey Babe ’ , JULIANA HATFIELD has been crafting a deceptively sweet , unnervingly direct antidote to foxcore screaming . |
| 21 | It has been outlining a plan to build a unified network to all California homes by 2015 that would provide the gamut of information and entertainment services — home shopping , entertainment and video telephone capability . |
| 22 | The local parish council has been debating a possible site since nineteen sixty-four . |
| 23 | The local parish council has been debating a possible site since nineteen sixty-four . |
| 24 | The Environmental Protection Agency has been experiencing a mini-Watergate scandal for the past year , with no less than six Congressional committees investigating very serious charges against the top officers involving misuse of public funds and conflict of interest . |
| 25 | According to Computerworld , Softlab recently offered $350m for the company — which has been experiencing a rough time of late , reporting mid-term losses of $3.5m back in January . |
| 26 | This course has been experiencing a rising age profile in entrants and a particularly sharp increase in the over 35 age group . |
| 27 | ‘ Music has been undergoing a subtle revolution . |
| 28 | Dickinson 's view that early Anglo-Saxon archaeology lacks a good theoretical framework is an extraordinarily isolationist one , when archaeology has been undergoing a revolution in thinking since the beginning of the 1960s and which has been dominated by theoretical considerations appropriate to all archaeological periods , including the post-Roman periods . |
| 29 | But let's not ignore the fact that , despite this , rock has been undergoing a certain process of feminisation over the last couple of years . |
| 30 | For over a year ‘ Maude 's ’ boiler has been undergoing a complete overhaul at a works in Cornwall at a cost of £70,000 , which included the installation of a new steel firebox . |