Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 2 | It was alleged the car had been doing 50-60mph on the wrong side of the road . |
| 3 | Although the college had been admitting female students in recent years , its outward appearance still succeeded in impressing the visitor with its austere and indefinably masculine grandeur . |
| 4 | As already explained , in the years since Chernobyl the nuclear industry had been spending increasing sums of money on publicity and advertising . |
| 5 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 6 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 7 | Again , I do n't know where they got their information from but I confirmed that the DEA had been running controlled deliveries through Cyprus while I was there and that its operations had been wide open from a security point of view . |
| 8 | Karen said : ‘ I know Rebecca had been feeling homesick , but she got a new job which was keeping her busy . |
| 9 | In a report on Hrawi 's tour on June 10 , the ( Phalangist ) Voice of Lebanon radio stated that the President had been seeking Arab support for the implementation of the October 1989 Taif Accord for Lebanese national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] . |
| 10 | Police said that their two accomplices arrested in Ireland had been carrying several addresses of safe houses in France . |
| 11 | A Planning Committee had been meeting weekly in 1969 , but the College had not wanted to be too rigid in imposing teaching methods . |
| 12 | Previously Gould had been making other extraordinary discoveries from Darwin 's collection . |
| 13 | He had spent many pleasant evenings here ; and Catherine 's parents had been trusting enough to withdraw to the morning room , leaving them alone together . |
| 14 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 15 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 16 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 17 | One family tea-time , when Auntie had been sitting silent for some time , she said : " It 's lucky there 's never anyone left in those offices at night . " |
| 18 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 19 | Aplin had been asking many questions about Putt , not only in connection with the robberies but with the rape of Anna too . |
| 20 | Rovers had been feeling better on Monday , November 1 , when the F.A . |
| 21 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 22 | However , she pointed out that as far back as 1980 , the Sports Council had been recommending all governing bodies to charge a minimum subscription of £2.00 per person . |
| 23 | News broke that Steven Jones , a physicist at Brigham Young University ( BYU ) — 30 miles from Salt Lake City and rival of the University of Utah — and a team from BYU had been studying cold fusion for years independently of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 24 | A 51 year old white man with a 28 year history of ulcerative colitis and ankylosing spondylitis had been receiving longterm treatment with sulphasalazine , until two years previously . |
| 25 | US negotiators had been seeking such an agreement since shortly after Endara 's government was installed following the overthrow of the Noriega regime by US military intervention in December 1989 . |
| 26 | if Central South had been running twenty five years ago our sport would have been dominated by the name of one man … jockey Terry Biddlecombe one of Gloucestershire 's most famous and favourite of sporting sons … |
| 27 | Burn had been ploughing that May afternoon and was leading his horses back to the field after his tea . |
| 28 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 29 | The device worked exactly as DeVore had said , but the truth was that he had access only to Tongjiang , and that only because Hans Ebert had been daring enough to take the thing in , risking the possibility that an over-zealous officer might search him , Tolonen 's favourite or no . |
| 30 | Simon had been growing restless , but all of a sudden he spotted someone with whom he could discuss yesterday 's success . |