Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OUTRAGEOUS US comedienne Roseanne Arnold has been sending poison-pen faxes to critics who panned husband Tom 's new TV show . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Tencel has been winning new converts at a month-long fair staged by Tokyo department store Matsuya . |
| 3 | George Tooker has been portraying brooding figures caught in foreboding psychological situations for many years . |
| 4 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 5 | OLD BRUSSELS : Chez Jean has been serving steaming pots brimming with mussels and other Brussels specialties since 1931 . |
| 6 | We notice that the SSA has been advertising inflatable sumo wrestling kits to hire . |
| 7 | The burning of hospital waste is certainly relevant in my area because , for years St. George 's hospital , Tooting has been burning enormous quantities of such waste — often for days on end . |
| 8 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 9 | Karen said : ‘ I know Rebecca had been feeling homesick , but she got a new job which was keeping her busy . |
| 10 | British Telecom has been installing extra lines ‘ in terraced houses all over the capital ’ so that some stockbrokers , bankers and insurance agents can work from home . |
| 11 | However , now in the hands of Cyril Stein 's Ladbroke group , Vernons has been making bullish noises about capturing extra market share . |
| 12 | Previously Gould had been making other extraordinary discoveries from Darwin 's collection . |
| 13 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 14 | News broke that Steven Jones , a physicist at Brigham Young University ( BYU ) — 30 miles from Salt Lake City and rival of the University of Utah — and a team from BYU had been studying cold fusion for years independently of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 15 | Simon had been growing restless , but all of a sudden he spotted someone with whom he could discuss yesterday 's success . |
| 16 | He said well Karen had been getting moody . |
| 17 | I 've had this twice and each time its been , its been other people , because his got a lot of goods people 's belongings out of one cupboard into another and the second time round there 's been purgatory because he brought Karen 's house , her hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his , everything that belonged to him but he said that before , I said why was Michelle able to jumped in between him and Karen , he said well Karen had been getting moody , and he said Karen was getting bored , Paul is boring , she 's told Paul that his boring boring . |
| 18 | Lyons have been selecting fine teas for almost 100 years . |
| 19 | ‘ Russian and Lithuania have been dumping cheap products on the UK market , and our understanding is that the Commission has now found that they have caused material damage to the UK industry . |
| 20 | ‘ Russian and Lithuania have been dumping cheap products on the UK market and our understanding is that the Commission has now found that they have caused material damage to the UK industry . |
| 21 | I think Megan has been learning Gaelic I think , she 's not a native by any means but But Ian 's wife you know |
| 22 | Denis Summers-Smith has been chasing little birds most of his life . |
| 23 | Wall Street has been hitting new peaks this week too , which has given support to the London market ( and even Japan 's Nikkei index , in a typically erratic period , has gained nearly 800 points while London added its 245 ) but London has real strengths of its own . |
| 24 | In the intervening months , SL has been adding user-level threads and features of the SVR4.2 Destiny desktop to what will eventually emerge as Unix SVR4.3 or like ( UX No 397 ) . |
| 25 | With the possibility of privatisation looming , the BTG has been making strenuous efforts to become an international organisation . |
| 26 | Since 1970 , Janssen Chimica has been manufacturing fine chemicals . |
| 27 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |
| 28 | For three or four years now , Mrs Mandelbaum had been giving free English classes in her home . |
| 29 | Richard used a new toothbrush which Martin had been saving fresh from the cellophane . |
| 30 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |