Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | so er and I 've er been pursuing all sort of avenues . |
| 3 | It is understood Special Branch detectives have been charting planned attacks on unionists and advising the politicians on measures to protect their lives and members of their families . |
| 4 | In a lengthy communiqué , regarded by observers as a carefully crafted compromise between United States pressures to boost growth and German determination to control inflation , ministers observed that " forces that have been inhibiting economic activity in many countries are dissipating " . |
| 5 | My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 7 | We 've been seeing each other for two years now and , although we have n't set a date , we are planning to get married . ’ |
| 8 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 9 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 10 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 11 | Tony Farrow has been building one-off yachts for 20 years and is well known for the trimaran Colt Cars GB , Geoff Panell 's Admiral 's Cup triallist Itzanotherpurla re-named Red Stripe and more recently used by the RAF as a test bench under the name of Oracle Arrow in preparation for this year 's Admiral 's Cup . |
| 12 | From 1977 he has been building luxury homes in various parts of North Wales , and in 1987 began a 16-home development at Deganwy which was to collect special awards . |
| 13 | In recent years the seedsmen and the chemical companies ( the latter are rapidly taking over the former ) have been producing new varieties of hybrid seeds , fertilizers , herbicides , pesticides , and fungicides , which together have made continuous monocropping feasible . |
| 14 | Hilary , who 's been producing religious programmes for BBC radio , has not yet decided whether she 'll go back to work after having the baby . |
| 15 | Who would be dropped , if anybody , for Michael O'Neill ( Hibernian ) has also been producing consistent form since his transfer from Dundee Utd . |
| 16 | Europress Software have been producing educational software for many years with their best selling ‘ Fun School ’ series . |
| 17 | One well at Cusiana has been producing 10,000 b/d on a long-term test and the development phase is about to begin . |
| 18 | For many years the Accounting Standards Committee ( the ASC ) of the accountancy bodies had been producing valuable Statements of Standard Accounting Practice ( SSAPs ) and had done its best to ensure that they were observed — not always successfully since the Statements had no statutory recognition . |
| 19 | He 's been enjoying terrific sport with bream to 3.5lb and tench to 3lb on the Plex Lane stretch . |
| 20 | It has been enjoying spectacular growth for its sales of the super absorbent polymers which make nappies that much more comfortable . |
| 21 | Unknown or overlooked by most museum professionals , a series of major international art exhibitions has been enjoying unusual success in the Tennessee capital . |
| 22 | The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people . |
| 23 | But then , a few days later , Mervyn Stockwood revealed that he had all the time in fact been helping dissident priests in a variety of clandestine ways , still too secret to be fully detailed : not so much a Red Bishop as a clerical Scarlet Pimpernel . |
| 24 | But to the extent that rationality continues to prevail , we have long since been submitting all codes to ‘ Be aware ’ , without noticing that this imperative is creative of values as well as destructive . |
| 25 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , the corporate-finance deals that had been generating big bucks for Wall Street 's investment bankers were starting to dry up . |
| 27 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 28 | It subsequently emerged that Lady Essex had been administering debilitating potions to her husband and was implicated in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury , who knew too much about this . |
| 29 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 30 | Durrant , such an influence when they overcame Leeds in the previous round , had been struggling all night as the makeshift partner for Mark Hateley , in the absence of the injured Ally McCoist . |