Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The double volume , Ogwen & Carneddau , will hopefully be in the shops by Easter ; Llanberis , at the time of writing , has much of the text complete , thanks to Iwan Arfon Jones , and Paul Williams has been rounding up all the loose ends . |
| 2 | Over the years industrial capitalist society has been casting off many of the more obvious outward signs of inner distress . |
| 3 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 4 | They have to take account not only of local white vested interests , but , more importantly , of foreign and multinational capital which controls a substantial proportion of its industries , though the government has been buying out some foreign , especially South African , firms . |
| 5 | The Agnes has been picking up various cargoes from North African and some West African ports . |
| 6 | ‘ Quite frankly , Elinor- and in confidence — STG has been handling too many criminal cases for my liking . |
| 7 | Worcester Juvenile Court has been hearing how three teenage boys wreaked havoc when they went to play on a building site . |
| 8 | The textile industry in particular has been experiencing very difficult trading conditions and is more susceptible than most to recession in the US economy . |
| 9 | Bea , 68 , wants to move to London from Hollywood , and has been trying out future homes over here . |
| 10 | Rather than making the observations that were originally planned , the telescope has been trying out various options to see what is possible , and at the same time producing pictures and results to reassure the public that all is not lost . |
| 11 | Rachel had that affair with her boss and Eddie 's drinking has been getting steadily worse these last couple of years — ’ |
| 12 | Occasionally you stick to your guns which means that Andrew has been getting rather inconsistent messages : he ca n't anticipate the consequences of his undesirable actions since your reactions are not predictable . |
| 13 | Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste . |
| 14 | Fred Thomson has been reading Home Sweet Home by Roy Ramsay . |
| 15 | She has been teaching approximately 10 hours a week including one session for children and one for the elderly . |
| 16 | The old debt has been nagging away these last 16 years , and Moore made a point last week of reminding Bobby Robson of the hostile reception England can expect on Wednesday . |
| 17 | The difficulty with many agrarian reform programmes has been achieving both social justice and economic growth . |
| 18 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ It has been raining heavily all day and we had no option but to abandon the meeting . ’ |
| 19 | Over on the brown stuff , Andy Barker has been seeking out those remaining gems . |
| 20 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been sending out some rather confusing messages of late with regard to its position over the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment — DCE — initiative , which is more or less completely opposite to its own Open Network Computing , ONC environment . |
| 21 | The University has been developing ever stronger links with Europe , such as the European Credit Transfer system in Medicine ( the symbol for which is shown above ) . |
| 22 | Since February he has been snapping up American commercial property . |
| 23 | Employment in the tobacco industry , which my hon. Friend mentioned , has been falling steadily due to increased automation and the long-term decline in smoking . |
| 24 | The report said for over 10 years , IBM has been booking immediately all the revenues from some long-term computer leases , getting a residual value guarantee from Merrill Lynch & Co to bring the total of the lease payments plus the residual value up to the 90% of the sale price that accountants regard as prudent for a sales-type lease . |
| 25 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 26 | BTW Speed has been having very quiet games recently . |
| 27 | It is precisely to deal with those problems that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has been having so many discussions over the past year . |
| 28 | If a teenager has been feeling acutely depressed for some time , then it may only take a trigger such as exams , to tip her over the edge ( suicide is the third most common cause of death among the under 25s , and the peak months are April to July ) . |
| 29 | Penang 's chief minister , Koh Tsu Koon , is so intent on his high-tech strategy that he says he has been turning away unsuitable investors . |
| 30 | Sharpe discovered that before his long absences through injury and illness ; Giggs has been finding out this year . |