Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 2 | Michell 's work provided the opportunity researchers had been waiting for and Pat Gadsby and Chris Hutton-Squire , of the alternative technology magazine , Undercurrents , took up the challenge . |
| 3 | At the NoS offices the champagne corks had been popping . |
| 4 | Since December 1989 opposition groups had been demanding the trial of former President Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal for causing economic stagnation in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 5 | Meantime , the Parents ' Action Committee had been writing letters to Councillors as well . |
| 6 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 7 | Department officials had been monitoring the convoy which spent about two weeks at a roadside halt near Ardglass before slipping into Downpatrick overnight . |
| 8 | Even when things had apparently gone well for fifteen years , the thinking population had been saying that the good times can never last : Surely enough , they came to an end in the mid 1970's . |
| 9 | Other Administration figures had been calling for Bush to boycott the meeting , on the grounds that the US was coming in for excessive criticism . |
| 10 | The arrival of each team was heralded by a verse , on which France 's top Christmas cracker poets had been working day and night since at least last week : ‘ For many games past , our hearts have been smitten by the courage of the athletes who come from Great Britain . ’ |
| 11 | All the tension Gascoigne had been suffering was suddenly released , and he celebrated by sprinting to the sidelines . |
| 12 | Our club members had been knitting cushions for charity and at the beginning of question time Georgie asked if she could tell the story of her cushion . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | The Review Panel had been considering Trafalgar 's accounts for the year to 30 September 1991 since February , but the company had consistently refused to capitulate . |
| 15 | Portadown 's Sonya Rowe and her horse Amsterdam had been leading after dressage , but were eliminated on the cross-country at fence four after the horse put his tongue over the bit and Sonya lost control . |
| 16 | The Fraud Squad had been seeking the help of several journalists for some weeks , as part of its work on the findings of that official report . |
| 17 | We would need to know far more about the actual course of study students had been following , albeit briefly , under Vial , before we could accept that Coleman maliciously reduced it , and that his motive , as claimed by Smith , was mercenary self-interest ( the 20 guineas student 's fee going into his pocket ) . |
| 18 | If agent provocateurs had been endeavouring to make trouble between Official and Provisional IRA , it would have been the ideal weapon to use . |
| 19 | Etna has two summit craters , the Main Crater and the North-East Crater ( both lying along the line of a fissure ) , and the North-East Crater had been showing mild Strombolian activity for many years prior to the 1971 eruption . |
| 20 | The hapless Jeff Nuttall — whose cartoon strip had been running since the first issue-also felt the lash . |
| 21 | In recent years , independence activities had been increasing , especially in Dili , despite a harsh response from the Indonesian authorities . |
| 22 | The sun stood uncertainly on the horizon , a disc of perfect orange , hovering above the smudge of suburban parks and tiled roofs , the same sun Spittals had been admiring a couple of hours before . |
| 23 | Despite excellent character-witnesses , among them Elizabeth , who delivered an impassioned plea on her maid 's behalf , Justine stood condemned by one piece of circumstantial evidence : a locket containing a picture of her late mistress had been found in her belongings — a locket which the child William had been wearing only the day before the murder . |
| 24 | After our visit to Baghdad and Amman , the Women 's International Peace Delegation had been planning to visit the US to meet with George Bush , but this was postponed when the attack on Iraq began on January 16 . |
| 25 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 26 | The hens that roosted on the rafters would scavenge as usual along the shore , and hunt for dropped oats in the straw and bracken Luch had been gathering from the moor all summer . |
| 27 | Meanwhile sister-in-law Kim had been working hard too and in 12 months she lost 5st ( 32kg ) , plus 12½ins ( 32cm ) from her bust , 11 ins ( 28 cm ) from her waist , 14ins ( 36cm ) from her hips and 10½ins ( 26cm ) from each thigh ! |
| 28 | The Local Plan inquiry had been taking place and the village had made a large input thanks to help from Rear Admiral Charles Weston and Christine Darter , who had devoted time and effort in presenting the parish point of view on many matters . |
| 29 | With hips at 44.5 inches and thighs at 25 inches , it was no wonder Rudolph had been complaining about excess baggage . |
| 30 | This was the one question Robert had been hoping the headmaster would not ask him . |