Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toshiba Corp has been showing off the robotics work it is engaged on at its research centre , where it has a number of projects that are or have grown out of government-sponsored projects : it is developing eyes 2mm to 3mm in diameter for a micromachine for use in inspecting pipes in nuclear power stations , and also a software-controlled self-mobile robot for use in space where not all astronauts can be expected to be robot experts . |
| 2 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 3 | Australian Mutual Provident has been building up its stake in Pearl for the last two years . |
| 4 | There are a number of problems caused by a protracted campaign — and arguably , this election has been going on since last autumn when everyone started wondering whether Major could pull it off . |
| 5 | Mrs Satterley says , ‘ I love doing lace and my Silver Reed has been playing up but — one phone call — and up comes Trudi . |
| 6 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 7 | Scanner appeal co-ordinator Jack Froggatt said : ‘ The town centre bombings raised awareness of the need for a scanner in Warrington and money has been coming in much quicker since then . ’ |
| 8 | Money has been rolling in from a very wide range of fund raising activities undertaken by JM sites and individuals around the country . |
| 9 | Ian Maclaren has been finding out . |
| 10 | Getting such an installation — currently available for some forty GA aircraft types — approved by the CAA may add considerably to the cost of hardware and labour , as the British Gliding Association has been finding out . |
| 11 | Mrs Mandela has been shuttling back and forth with messages from her husband 's prison home near Cape Town . |
| 12 | Presented by Michaela Strachan , the programme has been homing in on different varieties of animals and conservation projects in countries all around the world . |
| 13 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 14 | The building industry has been cashing in by providing sheltered housing schemes for elderly people , there is a whole holiday industry built around holidays for the elderly and more and more private nursing homes are springing up . |
| 15 | OSF 's singular appearance changes the rules the industry has been playing by for the past few years , narrowing the gap between the two camps , and allowing more room for the players to manoeuvre . |
| 16 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 17 | Watchpoint : If you are in the right category , but your weight has been creeping up over the years , then it would be wise to reassess your eating habits . |
| 18 | You can see the cloud that brought today 's snow has been feeding up into the country from northern France and it will continue to do so for at least the next day or so . |
| 19 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 20 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 21 | His main rival has been tuning up on Burford golf course . |
| 22 | ‘ There is evidence that the market in pubs , hotels and restaurants has been picking up — we believe it bottomed out six months ago — and that is another welcome move in bringing purchasers out again , ’ he said . |
| 23 | One of my magazines in the States has been following up rumours about the Josephs . |
| 24 | Crimean Tatars had been drifting back to their former homeland since 1987 , and a June 1988 central government ruling confirmed their right to residency [ see p. 36036 ] . |
| 25 | ‘ Ought we to try to get away ? ’ whispered Snodgrass , whose mind had been going along similar paths . |
| 26 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 27 | People from outside the college had been coming in freely , causing trouble , stealing and even beating students . |
| 28 | He said the Iranians had been carrying out assassinations , including that of his own Japanese translator . |
| 29 | The considerable scope for destocking — the main cause of the recession of the early 1980s — was highlighted by the CSO , which said industry had been building up inventories of unsold goods for two years . |
| 30 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |