Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 3 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
| 4 | So the young policeman ( who had been eating with the other young men in the passage outside the guestroom ) came in and read the transcript of the court judgement which had condemned the boy from Zliten . |
| 5 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 6 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 7 | Some colleges already undertake their own training of senior management staff and the Further Education Staff College at Coombe Lodge has for years been catering at the national level for the management needs of senior staff by providing residential conferences and workshops , most of which are over-subscribed . |
| 8 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 9 | There is an habitual inability to see the logical wood for the emotional trees , as the less discerning will have been proving since the final whistle sounded at Celtic Park . |
| 10 | For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world . |
| 11 | Second , the fall in unemployment adds something to the theory that the economy has in fact been recovering for a good deal longer than generally realised . |
| 12 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 13 | Rachel , Herbert Varley 's wife , had been helping since the very beginning . |
| 14 | Since Willie was so desperate to be accepted in Mrs Hartridge 's class Tom had been helping in every possible way . |
| 15 | AEA employees have been reacting to the recent announcement about our forthcoming restructuring into three Divisions . |
| 16 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 17 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Kenny has been competing since the junior level and he has done so very successfully , ’ said Mr Sullivan . |
| 19 | The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games . |
| 20 | The sightseers on the banks of the river , who , sensing something afoot , had been gathering for a few hours , dodged about , seeking a view between bushes . |
| 21 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 22 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 23 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 24 | The owners of smaller industrial enterprises usually retained many of the antiaristocratic views of the early nineteenth century , when the bourgeoisie had been struggling against the Old Regime . |
| 25 | Headteacher Terry Anderson said staff had been struggling in the cramped conditions since the school was opened in 1985 . |
| 26 | We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers . |
| 27 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 28 | While Francis had been gazing into the unseeable distance , the wall had extended several metres across the clearing . |
| 29 | Rotosound have been experimenting with a new type of nickel plating which gives an exceptionally bright sound thanks to increased magnetic response . |
| 30 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |