Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rauschning also began to realise that Gauleiter Forster had been using the economic reforms initiated by the Party in 1933 to line his own pocket . |
| 2 | Cissie had been stripping the excess leaves from the stems of a bunch of slender white tulips , which she then lovingly arranged one by one in an earthenware vase . |
| 3 | MUCH AS he has been donning the hornrimmed glasses and adopting his Clark Kent persona of late , Curtly Ambrose has few equals when it comes to persuading a cricket ball to move faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall batsmen in a single bound . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's a curiously authoritative figure , ’ says Tom Nairn , the political philosopher who has been pondering the various strains of British nationalism for years . |
| 5 | Recently , even those outlets have been drying up because they too have been selling the big breweries ' beer in return for cheap loans . |
| 6 | Early indications from the National Institute of Mental Health in Maryland , which has been testing the Californian findings , suggest that the drug does produce Parkinson-like symptoms . |
| 7 | Actuaries have recently been considering the particular difficulties of calculating pensions valuations in divorce cases , but have also been looking at the much wider issues raised by the changing pattern of divorce and marriage . |
| 8 | According to a report in the journal Veterinary Record , three ostriches in German zoos have been displaying the classic signs of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) after feeding on meat from local slaughterhouses . |
| 9 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 10 | Unbeknown to his stepson , the old man had already been scanning the local papers with a view to hiring some kind of enquiry agent to search far and wide for the son who had absconded all those years ago , but as yet he had not been given the opportunity to do anything positive . |
| 11 | Like the good gossip he was , he had merely been marshalling the various elements of his anecdote to their best advantage . |
| 12 | I arrived on Sunday and I 've been revisiting the old places . |
| 13 | I have been examining the Liberal Democrats ' environmental document called , ’ Costing the Earth ’ . |
| 14 | A working party chaired by has been examining the Non-Intending Practitioners ' Course . |
| 15 | Picasso had , it is true , for some time been frequenting the different galleries of the Louvre . |
| 16 | People have been studying the behavioural functions of the brain for something less than two centuries and , for much of that time , their efforts have been hampered by a combination of inevitable ignorance and adherence to implausible psychological theories . |
| 17 | Therefore , there must be value elsewhere and I have been studying the other prices . |
| 18 | Conservationists have for many years been predicting the catastrophic consequences of a major oil spill in Arctic or Antarctic seas , and in early 1989 , their worst fears were realised . |
| 19 | The British men 's hockey team have been putting the final touches to their preparations for the Olympics . |
| 20 | Since a year last August scientists working on UA1 and UA2 have been putting the finishing touches to their apparatus , and at the same time machine physicists at CERN have been working to get a large enough number of collisions in the SPS . |
| 21 | The Institute 's Education & Training Directorate and the General Practitioner Board have been watching the falling numbers of students training in small firms with deep concern and both have set up working parties to look at the problems . |
| 22 | We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and |
| 23 | Atomstyle has been supplying the various bits for building PCs to dealers for quite some time by now , and so the cases and motherboards it supplies fit together really well . |
| 24 | The company says it has been previewing the new X-stations for three weeks and has already taken orders for over 2,300 units . |
| 25 | On the way back from No. 6 Commando positions to Brigade H.Q the road was busy with Jeeps ferrying the wounded from the area where the Black Watch had been attacking the German positions . |