Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Axil , which introduced other Sparc compatibles earlier on , says in has been shipping hundreds of units a month and is on the verge of moving to a thousand . |
| 2 | Test kits to hand , Ian has been monitoring most of our tanks , with startling results . |
| 3 | JULIEANNE McConville ( 20 ) , has been modelling most of her life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 6 | A flotilla of surfers and canoes has been riding one of the year 's biggest Severn Bores . |
| 7 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 8 | erm The Schools Council , erm as you may remember , has been putting millions of pounds into educational research over the last dozen years , and all kinds of new curriculum ideas and patterns of organisation have emerged . |
| 9 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 10 | Britain has been resisting much of this , but none too skilfully . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But as Ian McGeechan himself said : ‘ He has been playing some of the best rugby of his life . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Ironically , it has been one of the board 's own employees , Dr Ross Hesketh , who has been questioning many of the rather bland assurances on what has happened to British plutonium from the civil programme . |
| 15 | Our disclosure will of course interest Fergie , who has been spending most of her time with John Bryan but undoubtedly still wears the red and black £100-apiece underwear which she bought from Janet . |
| 16 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 18 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 19 | She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through . |
| 20 | He 'd been working one of the axle springs free on an old Cortina when the jack had given way . |
| 21 | Opioid use is the top category , and individuals in this group may also have been using any of the drugs in the other five categories . |
| 22 | Barbiturates are the second hierarchical category , and individuals in this group may have been using any of the drugs in the four categories below , but not opioids . |
| 23 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 24 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 25 | Alex 's strange position in the production must have been making all of the usual understudy agonies even worse . |
| 26 | It was again as if she had been struck , her hands barely moving along the surface of the dresser she had been wiping clean of dust , her head going low , and when she finished she went to put the damp cloth carefully beside the sink , moving a simmering saucepan from the hotplate . |
| 27 | Malvern had been struggling most of the way on the only wet and windy day in an otherwise idyllic week . |
| 28 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 29 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 30 | The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement . |