Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , the Reagan administration has been moving toward building fences around the American scientific community . |
| 2 | Great-grandmother Shay , 75 , from Walton , has been collecting in memory of fallen heroes since 1942 . |
| 3 | The claim is sometimes made of a lack of continuity in policy which has been damaging to growth : in particular , that political changes have inhibited consistent action by civil servants . |
| 4 | The mail bag has been bulging with budget priced rereleases of old C64 games again this month and , as ever you can rely on us to sort out the wheat from the chaff , the men from the boys and totally t'riffic from the turkeys ! |
| 5 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 6 | Today the control room which has been buzzing with activity for the past fortnight is empty , most travellers have now left the area . |
| 7 | The team has been learning about tree-planting and has received help from David Barbour at Gosbeck 's Farm . |
| 8 | Eli has been trembling with fear for the ark . |
| 9 | Private Patients Plan , Britain 's second largest health insurer , has been calling for government intervention to stop the HCA takeover since it was announced in June . |
| 10 | Jean is Stella 's daughter , and Lucy has been acting as hostess in her place . ’ |
| 11 | This Shrewsbury company , Orbicom has been acting as middleman in selling Montegos to Russia . |
| 12 | Policewoman , Leslie Harrison , who was stabbed in the heart , has been speaking from hospital about her ordeal . |
| 13 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
| 14 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ She has been living off prostitution and is a heroin addict . |
| 16 | Laura has been living with family friends Foreign Office minister Tristan Garel-Jones and his wife Catalina and their four daughters and one son . |
| 17 | An old man who has been living in exile returns to Prague in 1998 . |
| 18 | The Dalai Lama , the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people , has been living in exile at Dharamsala , India , since 1959 . |
| 19 | The whole community has been living in fear for far too long , menaced equally by both sets of paramilitaries . |
| 20 | A sturdily middle-class society does not sit easily atop political immobility ; and , indeed , Taiwan has been experimenting with reform for the past three years . |
| 21 | Listening to the news through a set of headphones is at the core of the work and for the last year there has been monitoring of television broadcasts by satellite . |
| 22 | The average size of transactions , it was noted above , has been rising over time and now amounts to about £1 million for transactions with customers and about £4 million for intra-market business . |
| 23 | The mystique of the rapid has been building since day one , and now , at cocktail hour , Crystal assumes demonic proportions . |
| 24 | He has been on sick leave for more than three months during which Avon County Council has been inquiring into phone calls said to have been made from his Bristol office to soft-porn ‘ adult ’ 0898 numbers . |
| 25 | She has been wandering from post to post for six years , having left her home in , I suspect , scandalous circumstances . |
| 26 | Where Whitehall mandolins would be sat on especially those who were involved in over interpreting general directives from Brussels and this side of the house has been jostling for position I am told , in order to get on the standing committee which is about to start upstairs . |
| 27 | For some time now a Canadian company , Delrina Technology , has been producing without doubt the best fax software , for both DOS and Windows . |
| 28 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 29 | She has been teaching in North Kensington . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , Bob Woolmer has been easing in bowler Dougie Brown at Sunday League level . |