Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [v-ing] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PERESTROIKA and Glasnost have been the buzzwords coming out of the USSR ( or whatever it is now going to be called ) in recent years and the aviation world too , has been buzzing with exciting words like Fw 190 , Hampden , Hurricane , and Yak-1 . |
| 2 | English actress Julie Christie has been co-starring with Canadian Donald Sutherland in ‘ The Railway Station Man ’ , a rural love story set in Donegal and directed by Britain 's Michael Whyte , American Ned Beatty recently completed his starring role as Irish tenor Josef Locke in ‘ Hear My Song ’ , directed by first time British director Peter Chelsom . |
| 3 | He has been toying with various possibilities ( we suggested he could come to us & repeat the year at Oban High — a somewhat unlikely proposition , I admit ) but seems likely to plump for a 4-year course at Birmingham , leading to a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 4 | CINOA , as international union of national associations of art dealers has been dealing with these issues for quite some time , albeit with modest success . |
| 5 | Mr Portillo has been meeting with two leading Conservative Councillors from Oxfordshire to discuss the impact of the Poll Tax on the County . |
| 6 | Dustin has been meeting with original director Mike Nichols hatching plans for a table-turning sequel which will feature the ageing Hoffman having an affair with his son 's 16-year-old girlfriend . |
| 7 | Before it stretches USL 's congested expressway , or OSF 's traffic-free route , SCO has been meeting with both outfits and is mulling the prospects of either journey . |
| 8 | Is he aware of the work that the Scottish Knitwear Council has been doing with departmental officials showing that in 1990 a total of 123,000 knitted garments in cashmere coming from China were dumped over the quota agreed ? |
| 9 | Rainow , Cheshire-based Eden says that it has been working with unnamed telecommunications operators and user groups on the design of the phone , and envisages both business customers and consumers being interested in the device . |
| 10 | Local artist Hazel Albarn has been working with ten and 11-year-olds and their teachers , helping them design and create large sculptures relating to their other work topics . |
| 11 | Graydon has been working with several large UK organisations on a remedial approach to corporate risk assessment |
| 12 | Lady Julie observes , as Darcy has been observing with increasing awe , the extraordinarily civilised behaviour of the Eritreans ; their exemplary treatment of prisoners ( 'We will insult you with our compassion' ) ; their well-organised aid programmes ; their balanced egalitarianism and their passion for educating their children even under the most appallingly adverse conditions . |
| 13 | He 's not alone , judging by the contents of this week 's postbag which has been bursting with all the replies from our whose-tum-bum-or-thighs-would-you-rather-have competition . |
| 14 | Rita May ( Mrs Archer ) , whose husband died very suddenly , has been grappling with all the problems of being now on her own after forty years of happy marriage , the last 20 of which were spent at Failand near Bristol , only a short distance from the former family home of Somerville 's Margery Fry . |
| 15 | Advance tapes suggest that it 's leagues ahead of the rather dull ‘ Thaw ’ Housefrau superstar LYDIA LUNCH meanwhile has been recording with pathological monsters OXBOW for their LP ‘ King Of The Jews ’ , which should be out in January when they 're set to return to the UK for another series of dates . |
| 16 | Advance tapes suggest that it 's leagues ahead of the rather dull ‘ Thaw ’ Housefrau superstar LYDIA LUNCH meanwhile has been recording with pathological monsters OXBOW for their LP ‘ King Of The Jews ’ , which should be out in January when they 're set to return to the UK for another series of dates . |
| 17 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 18 | Spurs chief executive Terry Venables said : ‘ I 'm thrilled for Gordon because he has been suffering with this ‘ cheat ’ slur hanging over him . |
| 19 | Somebody has been interfering with this case internally . ’ |
| 20 | The report , based on testimony from Renamo and South African sources , states : " Part of the South African Army has been co-operating with private individuals to assist Renamo . |
| 21 | MICHAEL LYNAGH , who has been playing with increasing success for Italian club Treviso under the hand of magician Pierre Villepreux , has been offered a job with the PR department of Benetton , the club sponsors . |
| 22 | Goodway has been playing with consistent brilliance there this season , scoring 18 tries , but he will now be out for a month , and Hanley is no stranger to the position after spending earlier periods of his career mostly at centre or stand-off . |
| 23 | One disappointing absentee is Jonathan Davies , who has been playing with such verve at full-back recently but has not recovered from his damaged hamstring , allowing Alan Tait to revert to full-back . |
| 24 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 25 | I 'm just wondering why , cos someone 's been dealing with that |
| 26 | She 's been living with this guy for months , by all accounts , so she 's probably immune to his germs by now . |
| 27 | He 'll never let you get away with anything in a ward even if he 's been pining with unrequited love for your aunt for God knows how many years . ’ |
| 28 | And he 's been wrestling with this alsatian |
| 29 | Additionally , he 's been working with Left Hand Right Hand , who 've just toured the States , while his other musical activities have seen him involved with British Racing Green and Danielle Dax , with whom he plays bass from time to time . |
| 30 | It 's been working with NeXT since January , tuning the software and getting the right hardware configuration — stuff like modifying its QVision board . |