Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since June 1991 , it can be said that the UK stock market has been fulfilling its predictive . |
| 2 | The entertainer Frankie Vaughan has been fulfilling his new role as a Queen 's representative for his county . |
| 3 | Lloyd 's has been under-utilising its financial resources for some time . |
| 4 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
| 5 | The cider and wine company has been building its soft drinks portfolio with the acquisitions of the Piermont and Sorelle brands earlier this year . |
| 6 | The call came yesterday from Peter Seaman , the new president of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents , which this week has been holding its annual conference in Llandudno . |
| 7 | While the NHS has been developing its computerized data-bases and information systems for general hospitals with astonishing rapidity , community care services lag far behind . |
| 8 | But the odd rumour has gone round that Six has been operating someone big , someone quite high up in the KGB . |
| 9 | As well as fine-tuning his own stamina and fitness by clocking up to 70 miles in training each week , Paul has been helping his 12-year-old daughter Sacha in her bid to compete her first four-mile London mini-marathon . |
| 10 | Since Win/U is modular , it has been selling its Postscript-based XPrinter and hypertext-style HyperHelp modules separately , the latter for $19,500 as a source code site license , $2,500 for run-time . |
| 11 | If Flavin has been busy trying to de-concretise sculpture all his career , Judy Pfaff , in her own very different way , has been attempting something similar . |
| 12 | In the last few years , the European Commission has been assessing its potential role in fostering pan-European business support for the arts . |
| 13 | Fresh from its triumphant trawl through Liberal affairs , as it were , the Fourth Estate has been turning its prurient attention to the amours of Mr Phillip Schofield , the televisioniste turned stage performer . |
| 14 | When it emerges that she has been doing her voluntary work in York for just six years , her enormous commitment becomes clear . |
| 15 | Charles has been polishing his flying skills at Enstone aerodrome in Oxfordshire . |
| 16 | Charles has been polishing his flying skills at Enstone aerodrome in Oxfordshire . |
| 17 | In the intervening years , Doctor Ross has been perfecting his left-handed guitar technique , and writing his own songs , the best known being ‘ Cat Squirrel ’ , recorded by Cream on their first album . |
| 18 | ONE OF BRITAIN 'S most successful sculptors , Barry Flanagan , has been putting his steroid-injected bronze hares through all sorts of paces since 1979 — they leap , dance , box , bat , bowl , pose , cavort . |
| 19 | The council 's housing officer says she 's got to go back to her flat with an injunction , otherwise she 's making herself intentionally homeless , and he says the arrears are £4OO , that 's impossible , the DHSS has been paying it direct ! |
| 20 | A lifelong railway enthusiast has been celebrating his perfect birthday . |
| 21 | Moet & chandon has been making its distinctive mark on the heritage and tradition of champagne since 1743 . |
| 22 | Just like Walter Trout , 42 year-old Dave has been making his European debut courtesy of Dutch record label Provogue , and the album ‘ Short Fuse Blues ’ is receiving very favourable recognition with blues fans everywhere . |
| 23 | In the hall , he has been making his accustomed mark from the chair . |
| 24 | A judge at the Old Bailey has been explaining his full reasons for stopping the trial of the three retired detectives who were accused of tampering with evidence in the case of the Birmingham Six . |
| 25 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 26 | I think I 'd been expecting something good when I reach the village — a bed for the night , perhaps — but the place was deserted . |
| 27 | Big fucking deal , we thought , we 'd been robbing them blind |
| 28 | But he 'd been practising his backhand all year , mentally preparing himself for the North Shore . |
| 29 | According to my reckoning , I should have been giving my full and entire concentration to the final chapter of my work — a time when I would not , as Milada Pankracova knew , want any interruptions . |
| 30 | You will probably have been giving your elderly parent emotional support all the way through the anxiety of her husband 's terminal illness , unless his death was sudden and unexpected . |