Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite recently , the European Parliament have been calling for oil ships which do not meet E E C standards to be expelled from community waters . |
| 2 | Colleagues , the Parliament of the European Community and of the United Kingdom have seriously considered the consequences of the spillage of eighty five thousand tons of oil from oil tanker which ran aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands on the fifth of January nineteen ninety three and for a considerable time socialists of the European Parliament have been complaining incessantly for greater safety at sea . |
| 3 | Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year . |
| 4 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 5 | We can plausibly infer that crime has been increasing in the last two to three decades , presenting a problem for explanation and policy . |
| 6 | For a week now the person — or thing — in that study has been crying night and day for some special chemical powders . |
| 7 | Well , I know now , though it took some time before my stupid head would accept what my infinitely more sensible heart had been trying to tell it all along . ’ |
| 8 | This seemingly symbiotic link has been damaging to the more general applicability of these criteria in other contexts . |
| 9 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 10 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 11 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 12 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 13 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 14 | This course has been experiencing a rising age profile in entrants and a particularly sharp increase in the over 35 age group . |
| 15 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 16 | There are a number of problems caused by a protracted campaign — and arguably , this election has been going on since last autumn when everyone started wondering whether Major could pull it off . |
| 17 | As a way of approaching such a theory , I want to step back from questions of programme categorization and return to prior questions of the poetics of genre in case there is something there which the more immediate premisses of popular genre have been missing . |
| 18 | This department has been running an experimental scheme called project . |
| 19 | This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade . |
| 20 | OVER the past two months , an electronic device called the 810 enhancement has been arriving in Britain from the US . |
| 21 | The fact that evidence and documents relating to the case had either disappeared or been tampered with and that witnesses had been threatened led members of a US Congressional investigative task force to conclude that the military high command had been controlling the investigation and limiting the number and rank of the officers to be held responsible for the crime . |
| 22 | It has been known for some time that the Inland Revenue has been taking a close interest in the marketing practices of livestock farmers in parts of Wales and the West Country . |
| 23 | Reports that have reached us suggest that the Inland Revenue has been attempting to shake off its former austere image by offering some visitors refreshment . |
| 24 | Within the major firms this stock has been rising in some cases at over 20% per annum , and has proved to be a very good investment in spite of not being on the market . |
| 25 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 26 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 27 | The man regarded as the all-time superstar of British Football has been meeting old friends at a special lunch in his honour . |
| 28 | The unemployed electrician had been living with girlfriend Andrea McCardle at the flat in Lee Park Drive , Belle Vale , for two years . |
| 29 | A THOUSAND stalkers on the Scottish hills this winter have been shooting deer to keep their record numbers under control . |
| 30 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |