Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view was reflected by one observer in Rabat , who said : ‘ He ( King Hassan ) has so clearly been playing for time . |
| 2 | So , while it can seem churlish to knock the BCS , what has so far been lacking is someone to harness these scattered initiatives and local enthusiasms into a national force . |
| 3 | A simple , non-invasive method which could be used in clinical pharmacology to monitor the close relationship between these two variables has so far been lacking . |
| 4 | This is not to say that the Government has not also been pursuing other policies , such as the wider spread of home ownership , that have been beneficial to many working-class people , but the approach has been implemented in a way that has isolated the underclass still further . |
| 5 | What it implied was that BA has not exactly been covering itself with glory in its propaganda war with Virgin — and would do well to change tactics . |
| 6 | But the company has not simply been tinkering with cosmetics without a thought for the cars themselves . |
| 7 | They do not distinguish between individual dogs , and so the sound of a neighbour 's dog may cause yours to receive a punishment shock when it has not actually been barking . |
| 8 | Kenneth MacMillan is a master of many styles and views but it was he who first revealed Lynn Seymour 's dramatic gifts in Romeo and Juliet and has more recently been doing the same for Darcey Bussell . |
| 9 | She has n't heard Alina walking across the terrace , and has n't even been expecting her for another half-hour . |
| 10 | Absence from work due to sickness has certainly not been falling ; on the other hand , but for the increased spending on medicine , it is conceivable that it might have risen . |
| 11 | She has very kindly been helping me with my research . ’ |
| 12 | I 've only just been looking for since then . |
| 13 | I 've only just been talking about what we 're going to do . |
| 14 | It had all just been rummaging around . |
| 15 | She then felt reluctant to go downstairs to face the man who had so recently been kissing her bare breasts , so she took extra time to straighten the bed where she had almost been willing to — no , longing to make love with Silas , she amended with a burst of mental honesty . |
| 16 | It appeared the world had the evidence it had so long been seeking . |
| 17 | She had not exactly been reading Tennyson but had remembered John quoting one of his poems during the first days of their acquaintance . |
| 18 | But people in this group , often unemployed or single parents on low incomes , had not even been trying to get most forms of credit because of their own feeling that their personal circumstances would rule them out as applicants . |
| 19 | Perhaps because she had not previously been living in London , Moira observed precisely what it was that dozens of well-bred young ladies were enthusing over ; the long pin-tucked nightdresses , which no one else was making , to wear as day or evening dresses . |
| 20 | Approximately one year after their initial interview , a further interview was sought with the principal carers whose relative was still alive ( though we did interview a sample of those whose relative had died ) and who had not already been living in an institution at the time of the first carer interview . |
| 21 | Except for the few who tended , from time to time , to inconvenience the landlord by dying there , passing so imperceptibly that it sometimes went unnoticed for an hour or two , from a state which had not really been living at all . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Fenella , who had not really been thinking in terms of armies and battles quite so definitely as this . |
| 23 | For the past few minutes she had not really been paying much attention to the direction and she looked round worriedly . |
| 24 | Having put down the bottle , but still entranced by the ( to my nose at any rate ) sweet , dulcet tones of the essence , I decided to take another whiff to convince myself I had not really been dreaming . |
| 25 | I 've just now been singing . |
| 26 | The pair of them had probably not been having an affair for long — only perhaps after Kemp 's long infatuation with the semi-permanently sozzled Sheila had begun to wear off . |
| 27 | She had probably just been getting dressed when he knocked . |
| 28 | I was on that , I mean I 've not been taking them all the time , I 've really only been taking them when I feel it . |
| 29 | If he had really only been looking for shelter and a place to doss down for the night , why look further than this ? |
| 30 | I just wished that Mala had n't also been laughing so hard . |