Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] been [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 | The Marble Palace , a section of the Russian Museum , has seen an exhibition of works by Vladimir Nekrasov , who since 1976 has been living in America . |
| 13 | Academics have been writing books and articles ; Charter 88 has been campaigning for constitutional reform ; citizenship is to be incorporated in the National Curriculum in the schools ; and a commission under the august patronage of the Speaker of the House of Commons published a report entitled Encouraging Citizenship in October 1990 . |
| 14 | Usually , the former has been talking about the latter . |
| 15 | The same has been happening in the steel industry with the advent of the mini-mills . |
| 16 | Patricia Burns ( Mrs Sellers ) since July 1989 has been working as Assistant Secretary , Dept. of Energy , with responsibility for safety , health and environmental issues in the nuclear industry and for accident and emergency planning at civil nuclear sites . |
| 17 | The rumour mill claims Unix System Laboratories Inc has been sniffing around the Santa Cruz Operation Inc over the last few months — with takeover in mind . |
| 18 | The Mercury One-2-One Ltd digital cellular joint venture between Cable & Wireless Plc and US West Inc has been talking to Reuters , and says it is not seeking to trigger a price war with Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd and Vodafone Group Plc . |
| 19 | With the COSE Common Open System Environment agreement only just signed , sources are saying that a further agreement may be only 30 days away on WOSE — the Windows Open Systems Environment — which perhaps will be based on the technology Sun Microsystems Inc has been fostering from Praxis Corp . |
| 20 | For several weeks , Apple Computer Inc has been showing to developers prototypes of those two new high-end computers that according to US PC Week could create a breakthrough in performance and multimedia capabilities . |