Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [v-ing] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 2 | THE Bill Wells Octet has been exploring some unusual stylistic directions in the context of the Scottish jazz scene , but this appearance did not live up to expectations . |
| 3 | The Metropolitan Museum has been examining some of its most treasured paintings with the aid of the latest technology , and it has come up with a result which confounds the hitherto accepted history of art . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 6 | Bernard Dixon has been digesting some bizarre eating habits |
| 7 | The 28-year-old actor has been taking some time off to get his life back in order after filming three movies due out this year . |
| 8 | Erm mine 's good but Martin 's been having some back trouble . |
| 9 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |
| 10 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 11 | Although he was chary of broaching the subject of a full-time shepherd , when he did so , he found that his father had been giving some thought to the matter . |
| 12 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 13 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 14 | But no news is good news , and Mr Clarke has been drawing some comfort from the fact that he has n't heard from his own local family doctor . |
| 15 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 16 | For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems . |
| 17 | Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer . |
| 18 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 19 | Cheryl 's been saying some odd things . |
| 20 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 21 | Trials of state-of-the-art technology to monitor air quality in and around Wilton have been producing some interesting data . |
| 22 | Already Dublin has been showing some concern , since they will be submitted as British government rather than Anglo-Irish proposals . |
| 23 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 24 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 25 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |