Example sentences of "[adj] have [adv] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MAS has also been assisting purchasers transact acquisitions . |
| 2 | This has indeed been happening to the USA , and much of the capital funds moving to the USA have come from Japan . |
| 3 | This had clearly been worrying them both . |
| 4 | Of these , half had already been working alone the lines advocated , and although some of them enjoyed the reassurance of seeing classroom practice like their own being commended to others , several expressed the view that such an experience did not merit time away from their classes . |
| 5 | Rumour has it that The High had all been living separate musical lives — Andy in particular having just split with the Stone Roses — when they met in Manchester 's Hacienda club , and decided to put a new band together … |
| 6 | The sample list of books is equally important , for it disarms criticisms of the kind : ‘ The books involved are obsolete and the shelf space is needed for more modern colourful illustrated books ’ , or ‘ Things like this have always been going on ’ , or ‘ We only get rid of popular novels when the rush is over ’ . |
| 7 | When the gloom lifts , Hungary 's famous pessimists will be surprised to discover how much has actually been going right . |
| 8 | The sites and forms of these have constantly been changing , so that often what appears as a nucleated village around a green can be shown to be the last , and a relatively late , development in the landscape . |
| 9 | With the emergence of low-cost presentation graphics packages for both the Macintosh and the PC , and the latter has also been experiencing something of a resurgence , another fundamental change in the market has been occurring . |
| 10 | Han Chinese have since been pouring in , lured by promises of jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities . |
| 11 | The four persons against whom the murder charges had been announced on 6th January 1973 had likewise been travelling in a motor car in which an unlicensed pistol had been found . |
| 12 | I still make necklaces from strips of knitting with beads or marbles sewn in at intervals and they are still very popular , whether ‘ wooly ’ for sweaters or lurexed for evening wear ; but |I have recently been trying very simple macramé to knot several strips decoratively together and maybe add a few beads or jewels and the results can be quite spectacular . |
| 13 | The 68-year-old hero of the World War Two has still been fighting battles of his generation . |
| 14 | As Cliff Bastin later recalled : ‘ Relations between these two had gradually been becoming more and more strained , until it ultimately came to a point at which the question was which of them would be the first to vent his feelings on the other . |
| 15 | So the words composed to fit the tune , that 's already been going around in a , in a gentleman 's music club . |
| 16 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |
| 17 | The Novell networks I 've been working have constantly been bleeping and displaying ‘ New message from ’ far too frequently to the annoyance of those around me — but who cares . |
| 18 | During the sixteenth century the Portuguese had already been profiting from the gold being produced in West Africa and Japan . |
| 19 | Both have now been running for over 12 months , and the operating figures indicate that in addition to encouraging returns from food sales , drink sales have increased by approximately 10 per cent . |