Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prosecutors may feel that in serious cases of what has hitherto been threatening conduct under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5 might be proceeded against as affrays . |
| 2 | Katharine Over has only been studying Japanese for a year , but she 's already considered good enough to act as an ambassador for Britain . |
| 3 | The Open Software Foundation has apparently been submitting Motif to X/Open Co Ltd on a regular six monthly basis over the last three or four years , sources are saying . |
| 4 | The heatwave which stole Ivano 's snowfields has also been wreaking rockfall havoc around the massif , with many normally safe routes becoming places to tread warily . |
| 5 | Exploration of the Variscan thrust province in Belgium , southern Germany , and northern France has also been taking place , though on a much smaller scale than in North America , and so far without commercial success . |
| 6 | Work in generic science has also been taking place . |
| 7 | John Richardson , the St Andrews-born father of Ryder Cup player Steve , has also been dispensing family golf wisdom . |
| 8 | Hyundai has also been helping Empress Software do a Korean version of its RDBMS and 4GL under X11 and Open Look . |
| 9 | The Senate Judiciary Committee has also been studying evidence that the death penalty discriminates against black Americans . |
| 10 | The Scottish Office has also been giving consideration to reforming school inspection teams , so that members of the public will always be involved . |
| 11 | Sanipet has also been winning clean-up contracts for various dog shows , and show committees have been pleased with the results . |
| 12 | Its SASOL plant has now been making oil from syn-gas using the Fischer-Tropsch process since 1955 . |
| 13 | Dr Ken Towner , a microbiologist at the University Hospital , Nottingham , has recently been using DNA probes to identify and classify the various DHFRs ( Epidemiol . |
| 14 | This also shows that the ejections are not necessarily triggered by solar flares , a view that has recently been gaining support . |
| 15 | A contributor to the Funeral Service Journal who declares himself to be ‘ a devoted and qualified embalmer and tutor ’ is a funeral director who has recently been giving advice to readers . |
| 16 | I think it was really because Paul felt that everything was going really well with the partnership board , and he 'd been erm putting a lot of work in with people like erm from Scarborough , and John and er other people who are on the board , but he 'd rather been neglecting building up a really good working relationship with N Y T E C. |
| 17 | If you do you 've probably been watching OWL TV after school . |
| 18 | Three conditions apply : the claimant must be in paid working employment for 16 hours or more a week , suffer from an illness or disability which leaves them disadvantaged when applying for a job and must have recently been getting benefit such as income support , housing or community charge benefit . |
| 19 | Coun Williams said he had merely been following council policy . |
| 20 | Erm cos I think a lot of the , I mean a lot of land redistribution had already been taking place in since about the since about January of nineteen forty six , so I think the May the fourth directive is just erm an official , well a secret official acceptance of this . |
| 21 | Its polythene wrapping looked vaguely torn and grubby , as if members of the Waitrose staff had already been playing catch with it . |
| 22 | The West had just been sending gold straight to Stalin 's coffers . ’ |
| 23 | They 've also been recycling vinyl string pouches and have even decided to stop shining up their bronze strings by washing them in acid — still a common procedure for most string manufacturers . |
| 24 | Much of the technology used in the Macintosh came via Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre where they had also been investigating page printing technology and methods of transferring complex graphics between screens and the printed page . |
| 25 | The UK apparently had also been exerting pressure on Commonwealth member countries with MNR sympathies , notably Kenya , to convince the rebels that they should accept a peace package . |
| 26 | They had even been giving trouble during the morning and had still not been put right . |
| 27 | Shinjuro Yamamura , the chairman of the Diet budget committee , was stabbed to death on April 12 by his own daughter , who had reportedly been receiving treatment for a psychiatric condition . |
| 28 | After all , there must have been many comfortable nursing homes in Sydney where her father , who had then been having difficulty in telling even night from day , would have received the sort of care and attention which he had needed . |
| 29 | His friend Morton , who had recently been studying art and sculpture in London , mentioned his parents ' old friends , the Pullmans , who had a place in Hampstead . |
| 30 | The folios and quartos laboured on so industriously by forgotten clerics and divines , the erudite editions of minor classical writers , have long been gathering dust in countless book shops . |