Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far , an answer on that has been lacking from him and other Ministers . |
| 2 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 3 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that that has been happening in the country at large and that they have now been rumbled . |
| 6 | ‘ This has been hanging over us for too long . |
| 7 | If this has been leaking for some time then the transfer box is probably low on oil . |
| 8 | This has been happening to me , just the same . |
| 9 | An example of this has been evolving at IBM for many years with the AS/400 . |
| 10 | And do you think , if this has been going on all the years it must have , he 's going to stop now ? |
| 11 | They 'll let you do a activity , this has been going for years but they wo n't let you . |
| 12 | Now , while this had been happening to the fisherman , his poor dumb wife was left alone in the lonely hut . |
| 13 | It had been a slow job , but as all this had been going on the elvers had been flooding into the basin . |
| 14 | Until then the English had been sailing to places so far from effective Spanish opposition and so thinly populated that the government had not had to provide any help . |
| 15 | Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit . |
| 16 | Some had been coming for a year or more and spoke quite a little English . |
| 17 | Schemes like this have been operating at Blackbird Leys for years … this , the locals say , is an example of the real face of the estate . |
| 18 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
| 19 | County clubs , meanwhile , can help by welcoming former players , be they great or small , and in particular by forming old player associations , as Somerset has done in the last few seasons , as some have been doing for decades . |
| 20 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 21 | Something very interesting and very clever had been happening to the Direct Line Insurance tournament at Beckenham lately . |
| 22 | Ever since the pharmaceutical company for which he worked had given him the vehicle given , thought Henry grimly ) number 47 had been watching over it in a manner that suggested an emotion deeper than motherhood , more desperate than romantic love . |
| 23 | He was therefore likely to have been driving through Theale late on Sunday . |
| 24 | you perhaps have n't got the same degree of landlord exploitation , you might , I think one might argue from , from what we said earlier that in the north you 've got a s a slightly more paternalistic landlord , it 's , it , there 's less , less absentee landlordism landlords were more likely to have been behaving within the confines of moral economy would n't , would n't have been tt erm reducing rents , it was done on a much more , more personal sort of scale . |
| 25 | ‘ What am I supposed to have been looking for ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Search for what , since you 're not after all the heroin , or whatever I 'm supposed to have been ferrying around the islands for a week ? ’ |
| 27 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |
| 28 | No but we were supposed to have been playing in er where was it ? |
| 29 | AS a resident and on behalf of the residents of Prescott Street , Albert Hill , I am appalled that our bus service we fought so hard to get is going to be taken away from us . |
| 30 | Sixty-seven parties fought the election of 1991 ; 29 won seats in parliament ; a dozen have been jockeying for seats in coalition governments . |