Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 2 | The warm weather which helped Etam in the summer has proved to be a disadvantage in the run-up to autumn trading and the chairman , Alan Howard , says the group has been trading slightly below budgeted levels . |
| 3 | Despite the terrible heat , for a month now his conversation had gradually been becoming even more venal than normal . |
| 4 | ‘ We have been living in very poor lodgings , but hope soon to find better ones . ’ |
| 5 | It , I mean it has been going up rather high , this has been |
| 6 | The debate about the vulnerability of land-based missiles has been going on so long that a few cynics have begun to wonder if it matters all that much . |
| 7 | But in industrial countries in particular — or in countries that abut industrial countries — the rain has been growing steadily more acidic in recent decades , to the point where it has already done severe damage to ancient buildings and statues , where it is has virtually destroyed vast numbers of trees in continental Europe ( notably Germany ) and killed most of the life , including the fish and crayfish , in many of the lakes and rivers of Scandinavia . |
| 8 | Some hours later , after a torrential thunderstorm , the wriggling foot , that had been kicking in very strange places , finally broke through and I soke at five in the morning with a warm , wet feeling . |
| 9 | With this firmly decided , she made her way up to change out of the trousers and sweater she had been wearing all that long day . |
| 10 | So went out and I was feeling really tired but I thought well I just been getting up very early in the mornings so |
| 11 | We have been doing much more mundane , but nonetheless enjoyable , things . |
| 12 | Comrade Wu has been kindly giving us Chinese lessons in the evening whenever we have some spare time , so you can tell that his tuition , what little I was able to attend , has been coming in very useful . |
| 13 | By the early 1980s the Commission had been coming under increasingly severe criticism from conservationists and others . |
| 14 | Billy Johnson ( ‘ Look Forward in Anger ’ , 3 April , page 23 ) may have been ‘ fond of saying ’ that if they had n't induced his birth a day early he could have voted in the 1997 election , but then he would have been talking even more crap than the verbals Steve Platt so kindly recorded for us . |
| 15 | She had been feeling so very proud of her adventure in Horsfall Woods , which had turned out so well , not only for Rosalind but for the poor gardener . |
| 16 | I 've really been feeling very very low . |