Example sentences of "[noun] been [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonks has for months been juggling the possibility of an All Black tour to South Africa next year — something close to his heart — but was aware that the continuing divisions between the rugby groups in the Republic made such a tour impossible . |
| 2 | Europe now produces more food than she needs and has for some years been supporting a section of industry that provides employment for less than 1% of our National workforce ; good for British agriculture , but how much better if the support had gone to those industries that took up a greater proportion of the work force , i.e. the engineers with 10% . |
| 3 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 4 | The Open Spaces Society , which is by far our oldest environmental pressure body has for more than half a century been encouraging the continuance of the ancient practice of Beating the Bounds by parish and community councils and local groups . |
| 5 | And just how long had Janine been beating the child ? |
| 6 | Other satellite services have for some time been offering a kind of one-sided videoconferencing facility . |
| 7 | The AHA had in fact been debating the issue of the future of the hospital for some years . |
| 8 | Bruce had in fact been contemplating a withdrawal to the hills rather than risk a head-on clash with forces which so visibly outnumbered his own . |
| 9 | Had n't Clare been repairing a greenhouse when she fell ? |
| 10 | Not surprisingly the Germans would accept this , they had proposed it when the Commission had by turns been denying the existence of damage in West Germany and demanding proof based on a single pollutant ( rather than multiple stress ) . |