Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 2 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 3 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 4 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 5 | Maybe , she thought , she had been adopting entirely the wrong approach . |
| 6 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 7 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 8 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 9 | A Parliamentary Commission , presided over by Christian Democrat Giorgio Santz has been investigating how the preceding laws have worked and has now come up with its report which shows that in the last eight years , of the L1,500 billion allocated to Venice only L853 billion ( £394.3 million ; $686 million ) have actually been spent . |
| 10 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 11 | The problem with industry-funded research has always been sorting out the intellectual property rights . |
| 12 | Ten minutes before you might have been having quite a close conversation . ’ |
| 13 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 14 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 15 | Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Oxford Crown Court 's been hearing how a British Airways stewardess from Thame was threatened with death when she tried to end an affair with her boyfriend . |
| 17 | An inquest 's been hearing how a teenage joyrider died when he crashed a stolen car while trying to escape from police . |
| 18 | An inquest has been hearing how a six-month old baby girl died from a fractured skull after being dropped on her head at playschool . |
| 19 | A court 's been hearing how an off-duty nurse saved a security guard 's life after he 'd been shot in the chest during an armed robbery . |
| 20 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 21 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 22 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 23 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |
| 24 | Since about 1988 , Rob Gallagher ( aka Galliano ) has been putting together the cross-cultural , many-sided musical jigsaw that shares his nickname . |
| 25 | The younger John claimed that Langton had been carrying on an adulterous relationship with his stepmother Joan . |
| 26 | These compensatory orders can only be obtained against the contravener who , for section 6 purposes , has been carrying on the unauthorised investment business , or who , for section 61 purposes , has contravened one or other of the statutory provisions referred to in section 61(1) ( a ) . |
| 27 | At Warwick University ( England ) , doctors Steve Van Toller and George Dodd have been carrying out a great deal of research in recent years into the relationship between smell and emotion . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , forensic experts have been carrying out a thorough examination of the lonely cottage where Jonathan and Tania had met shortly before she disappeared . |
| 29 | Researchers at Gloucesters public health laboratories have been carrying out a long term study into more than three hundred cases of meningitis . |
| 30 | I know that the National Audit Office has been carrying out a value-for-money study of NRA coast protection schemes . |