Example sentences of "[adv] been [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENGINEERS at Philips in Britain have secretly been working on a flat screen television for several years , while hotly denying the fact . |
| 2 | The Finnish government had hitherto been pressing for a change in the plans , to incorporate a special section allowing passage for rigs over 65 metres high . |
| 3 | English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years . |
| 4 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 5 | Considering she 's only been sailing for a couple of days , she 's doing very well . |
| 6 | In fact , he has only been working as a professional for three years or so , and has had to learn his trade by trial and error . |
| 7 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 8 | For years before that , however , football enthusiasts in Glasgow had long been agitating for an international match against the deaf footballers of England , without success . |
| 9 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal held that the buyer dealt as a consumer , so that the clause was inapplicable ; however , Dillon LJ , obiter , suggested that had the buyer not been dealing as a consumer , the clause would have been reasonable because the buyer ( 1 ) was " ex hypothesi dealing in the course of business and [ the managing director ] was not devoid of commercial experience " and ( 2 ) the supplier was a hire purchase company , not a dealer , and had never had possession of or inspected the car . |
| 11 | Initially the king was unsympathetic to Hopton 's petition , claiming that at the material time he had not been acting as a justice owing to a bureaucratic muddle over his appointment , but by December 1290 he had agreed that the money Hopton had already paid towards his fine should count instead towards a fine he had made to secure the wardship of the lands of his late wife . |
| 12 | Witnesses in the car said Williams had not been driving at an excessive speed and had not been distracted in the moments before the car went out of control , said Mr Hardy . |
| 13 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
| 14 | Approximately one year after their initial interview , a further interview was sought with the principal carers whose relative was still alive ( though we did interview a sample of those whose relative had died ) and who had not already been living in an institution at the time of the first carer interview . |
| 15 | Herman , whom Erika had already been keeping at a safe distance from her feet , backed away . |
| 16 | His expression was severe and disapproving as if he 'd just been sucking on a slice of lemon . |
| 17 | like I 've just said , I 've just been speaking for a whole lesson , my voice is just I 've got to talk to you to explain what we 're doing , so let's quietly |
| 18 | In fact I have just been looking at a place in South Audley Street , not far from Mattli . |
| 19 | I just been talking to a coupla friends of yours . ’ |
| 20 | As he began another banquet in Japan , President Bush said he was fine , after his collapse yesterday , and that he 'd just been suffering from a flu bug . |
| 21 | Those army commanders who had still been hoping for a coup realized that all such hope was now lost . |
| 22 | Mr Fitton yesterday made clear that he had always been acting in an independent capacity in the offer for Eagle , and that it had no connection with Braithwaite . |
| 23 | Have you ever been working on a program late at night that throws up error codes with a number such as ‘ ERROR CODE 201 ’ which means nothing at all to you . |
| 24 | I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've also been listening to a lot of Glenn Branca recently . |
| 26 | The political winds had also been blowing from a different and more conservative direction . |
| 27 | Opposition parties had also been pressing for an early poll , especially in view of the poor performance by ANAP in local elections since 1989 [ see p. 36528 ] . |
| 28 | They had also been floating in a jar of pickle in the curiobiological museum down in the cellars of Unseen University , since live salamanders were extinct around the Circle Sea . |
| 29 | At this period in time Highlander had also been working on a community health program , the broad aim of which was ; |
| 30 | SCOTVEC has also been working on a catalogue of extra additional assessments for the first phase of general SVQs , in order to provide candidates with a wider choice of assessments . |