Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] the [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 mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 3 | Maybe , she thought , she had been adopting entirely the wrong approach . |
| 4 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 5 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The problem with industry-funded research has always been sorting out the intellectual property rights . |
| 9 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For the past 23 years Unionists have been saying exactly the same thing with regard to both security policy and political policy . |
| 12 | ( Her aunts had been saying much the same kind of thing to her all her life , I believe . ) |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The jury in the James Bulger murder trial at Preston have been hearing how the two eleven year old boys accused of murder blamed each other for most of the violence . |
| 15 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 16 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 17 | I suspect he would have been making exactly the same speech but saying that the figures were suspect because they had been come from somewhere else . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Since about 1988 , Rob Gallagher ( aka Galliano ) has been putting together the cross-cultural , many-sided musical jigsaw that shares his nickname . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been sitting there the whole morning in nothing but that flimsy shift , just staring through the window at all that water . |
| 22 | The Commission has , for example , been monitoring closely the various measures attempted by Birmingham City Council to bring its admissions policy into line with the House of Lords judgment in respect of its school admissions arrangements ( see Chapter 4 ) . |