Example sentences of "has [been] getting " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 2 | If one partner has been getting statutory sick or maternity pay for a continuous period of 13 weeks or more , this is counted as income . |
| 3 | If one partner has been getting statutory sick or maternity pay for a continuous period of 13 weeks or more , this is counted as income . |
| 4 | If one partner has been getting statutory sick or maternity pay for a continuous period of 13 weeks or more , this is counted as income . |
| 5 | The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 . |
| 6 | UBS has been getting an average of one inquiry a day from small banks looking for a bigger uncle . |
| 7 | Mr Rushdie has been getting out and about a fair deal recently . |
| 8 | Occasionally you stick to your guns which means that Andrew has been getting rather inconsistent messages : he ca n't anticipate the consequences of his undesirable actions since your reactions are not predictable . |
| 9 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 10 | Giant London toy shop Hamleys has been getting more than 500 calls a day for the last two weeks from people asking about Thunderbird toys . |
| 11 | ‘ The Church of England has been getting more and more liberal on the matter . |
| 12 | Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste . |
| 13 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 14 | The star has been getting used to the infatuations of Luke-crazed girls . |
| 15 | BUT THE ROYAL SCANDAL OF THE CENTURY HAS BEEN GETTING CLOSER … |
| 16 | John has been getting to know the world as it is in 1992 , and coming to terms with both dramatic political changes and the way friends have moved on in their lives . |
| 17 | Bishop Konstant told the TV reporter : ‘ It is an area where there are great needs , as there are in many parts of Leeds , great social needs — but I think the publicity it has been getting recently is quite unbalanced and it is a good thing to see another side to it . |
| 18 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 19 | Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 20 | Rachel had that affair with her boss and Eddie 's drinking has been getting steadily worse these last couple of years — ’ |
| 21 | The result of all these changes is two-fold , that the UK has been getting richer , but not as fast as the rest of the industrialized world . |
| 22 | For the past few months my husband , who 's 43 and a smoker , has been getting a sharp pain in the pit of his stomach , which he 's been ‘ curing ’ with a glass of milk . |
| 23 | For the past week or so Dora has been getting steadily more frustrated at the way things are going between Rose and Dieter . |
| 24 | ‘ I know I can rely upon your discretion , mum 's the word , ’ his constituency chairman continued , ‘ but all the publicity she has been getting has gone to her head . |
| 25 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
| 26 | He says that the river has been getting cleaner over the years so this is a setback . |
| 27 | He says that the river has been getting cleaner over the years so this is a setback . |
| 28 | The problem for researchers in this country has been getting enough Yew to carry out their work . |
| 29 | Jenny Pitman 's been hit with flu … so assistant David Stait has been getting Gary ready for the gold cup … |
| 30 | The multinational group has been getting to know each other in the Darlington convent ever since . |