Example sentences of "[vb base] be [v-ing] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , I 've been reading some recent studies of Sardinian banditry . |
| 2 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been doing some serious thinking about that . |
| 4 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |
| 5 | I must say I 've only grown two maincrop this year , I 've been clearing some new ground and I 've just grown King Edward and Pink Fir Apple , I 've got the biggest biggest Pink Fir Apples you have ever seen bar none but I 'm coming back to you now Fred , I put to you a few minutes ago , your personal recommendations for the best three or four or five potatoes for the different cooking purposes . |
| 6 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 7 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 8 | Trials of state-of-the-art technology to monitor air quality in and around Wilton have been producing some interesting data . |
| 9 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 10 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |