Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robson , 35 , has been struggling with a recurrence of a calf injury and missed the explosive Manchester derby at Old Trafford on Tuesday . |
| 2 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 3 | For many years AI has been calling for an independent judicial inquiry to investigate the pattern of disputed killings by security forces in Northern Ireland in order to help prevent unlawful killings . |
| 4 | Since last summer , Controll has been acting as a dealer for Hewlett-Packard Co , Compaq Computer Corp and Philips Electronics NV . |
| 5 | Then when you stop dieting , the body , which has been acting in a kind of starvation mode , finds that it has become used to its new BMR and requires less calories to function . |
| 6 | AN AMOROUS owl has been breaking into a nature park visitors ' centre every night after falling in love — with a wooden model . |
| 7 | As its name would suggest , WinFax is a Windows-based Fax application , which has been shipping for a year now in its Version 2.0 form . |
| 8 | This week Tom has been living on a glass of water , half a cup of tea and just one small dinner a day . |
| 9 | STEPHEN HENDRY has been living under a Fatal Attraction nightmare since September . |
| 10 | Clark has been living with a Jarvik 7 implant , connected to a separate air compressor , since 2 December last year . |
| 11 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 12 | From 19 April 1993 the Supreme Court taxing office has been experimenting with a pilot scheme and a set of draft rules is contained within Practice Direction 1 of 1993 . |
| 13 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 14 | Mr Deukmejian , who was elected governor in 1982 , has been trying for a mighty long time to get the death penalty enforced in California . |
| 15 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 16 | Another man has been existing in a tiny cell in Georgia for 20 years — waiting to die . |
| 17 | Since you left me so abruptly , my mind has been teeming with a whole variety of things I 'd like to do to you . ’ |
| 18 | He has been swimming in a pool somewhere , I said to myself . |
| 19 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 20 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 21 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 22 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 23 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 24 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 25 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 26 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 27 | At the same time , Britain has been developing into an increasingly plural society , with a major increase in the size of the non-white ethnic groups alongside a decline in the size of the white population . |
| 28 | Over the past three years my department has been collaborating with a training programme for general practitioners based at the Conceicao Hospital in Porto Alegre , a large city in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul with a population of around 1.5 million . |
| 29 | on the other hand , while the CA has been operating as a separate agency for two years , 24 per cent of the NIC specialists who completed the survey were unaware of its existence . |
| 30 | It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them . |