Example sentences of "[adv] been [v-ing] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field . |
| 2 | For the past week she 'd literally been counting the days . |
| 3 | IF ONE had not been reading the newspapers , listening to the radio , watching television and , above all , paying attention to the opinion polls , the election results would have come as no surprise . |
| 4 | Despite management optimism , the factory had not been making the goods to meet the profits required , said Mr Laird . |
| 5 | She rolled her shirt-sleeves and crouched on the platform shouting back , above the noise of the engine and Marley , ‘ I 've just been checking the records . |
| 6 | Mr Milosevic has also been tapping the emotions of ordinary Serbs who are suffering because of sanctions . |
| 7 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 8 | Tony has n't been paying the bills . |
| 9 | Alternately alarmed and exalted by Barry Fox 's reports of the progress of CD ( we who are in the know call it that ) I have therefore been following the advertisements of equipment to play CD records . |
| 10 | Argentina has recently been paying the banks $40m a month ( equivalent to three days of the monthly amount due ) , but has had no formal discussions with its banks about a rescheduling . |
| 11 | REM guitarist Peter Buck has recently been treading the boards with Kevin Kinney of Drivin 'N' Cryin . |
| 12 | He envisaged an idealized model of perfect gases and frictionless cylinders , in contrast to the engineers who had actually been making the improvements to real engines ; but his method allowed him to demonstrate that heat will not flow spontaneously from a cool body to a warm one , and that the efficiency of a heat engine depends on the difference of temperature between the ‘ source ’ and the ‘ sink ’ of heat . |
| 13 | Erm but we will try and reverse that and er erm one particular parent from House er who is a member of this council has er certainly been following the events with some interest . |
| 14 | THIS week , beef has certainly been making the headlines . |