Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 2 | ‘ Quite frankly , Elinor- and in confidence — STG has been handling too many criminal cases for my liking . |
| 3 | The old debt has been nagging away these last 16 years , and Moore made a point last week of reminding Bobby Robson of the hostile reception England can expect on Wednesday . |
| 4 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ It has been raining heavily all day and we had no option but to abandon the meeting . ’ |
| 5 | The report said for over 10 years , IBM has been booking immediately all the revenues from some long-term computer leases , getting a residual value guarantee from Merrill Lynch & Co to bring the total of the lease payments plus the residual value up to the 90% of the sale price that accountants regard as prudent for a sales-type lease . |
| 6 | It is precisely to deal with those problems that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has been having so many discussions over the past year . |
| 7 | Maybe it has been charging too little for the uncertainties involved , but that is another matter . |
| 8 | Topix Abteilungsrechner & Workstations magazine reports that an announcement regarding the B20 , on which Siemens Nixdorf has been pinning so many hopes , was planned originally for the autumn . |
| 9 | She 'd been thinking just that for most of the long , aching , sleepless night . |
| 10 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 11 | And then I thought maybe I 'd been expecting too much . |
| 12 | But she 'd been smoking too much , as well . |
| 13 | Anyway , she 'd been drinking too much , of late . |
| 14 | And as I continued to think about how we rarely get the measure of little children , I suddenly realized why they 'd been making so much din . |
| 15 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 16 | apparently she does n't know why they sacked her she said , they sacked apparently something to do with she 'd been asking too many questions or something and but she |
| 17 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 18 | It would have been expecting too much to imagine that the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ might disappear overnight in 1945 , disintegrating along with the mortal remains of the Führer himself and being scattered with the ashes of the Third Reich . |
| 19 | If it had n't have been for her I would n't have been taking so many exams . |
| 20 | The forces of evil must have been working smoothly that day because it so happened that the spot he chose was the position within yards of the epicentre of terror that had frightened the railwaymen so many years earlier . |
| 21 | It was n't jerky , just a little unsettling , and Maxim might not have been asking so many questions if he 'd been able to sit back and watch the countryside flow past . |
| 22 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 23 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 24 | ‘ In the concreted yard at the back of the flats at Water Eaton Road stood a light-weight , rubber-wheeled , aluminium wheelbarrow which one of the maintenance men had been using earlier that day . |
| 25 | The beer he had been drinking steadily all day was now weighing heavily on his stomach . |
| 26 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 27 | The party set off downstream along the river bank and Rostov concentrated on making it look as if he had been riding bareback all his life . |
| 28 | The magazine had been consuming too much of his time even though , ideally , he ought to have been devoting more to it . |
| 29 | He had been saving as much as possible from the grant in the hope of amassing a small sum which would tide him over until he could find a local job . |
| 30 | Olive had been expecting so many horrors that hearing the question she almost laughed with relief . |