Example sentences of "have [adv] been [v-ing] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A main preoccupation of the laws of war has always been placing limits on the scope and ferocity of war : hence the large number of rules restricting the use of indiscriminate weapons ; and protecting neutrals , civilians and prisoners of war . |
| 2 | The 68-year-old hero of the World War Two has still been fighting battles of his generation . |
| 3 | The Group has also been seeking allies in Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | MAS has also been assisting purchasers transact acquisitions . |
| 5 | The popular TV star , who first shot to fame with the children 's favourite Crackerjack , has even been swapping jokes with his doctors . |
| 6 | Christopher Robson ( countertenor ) has recently been electrifying audiences with his performances of Arsamenes in Xerxes at the English National Opera , and when he opens his mouth on this recording he may as well be plugging us all into the mains . |
| 7 | The Head Receptionist has recently been showing signs of some disquiet , however : he has invested in a home computer and has been rather tentatively advocating the advantages of word processing and computerized accounting . |
| 8 | The statistical study of style is a discipline which is still in its infancy , but has recently been showing signs of vigorous growth . |
| 9 | Mr O'Connor has recently been distributing leaflets advertising his business on Darlington 's Whinfield estate . |
| 10 | Mr O'Connor has recently been distributing leaflets advertising his business on Darlington 's Whinfield estate . |
| 11 | Their painted eyes seemed to be full of a malignant resentment , as if they 'd once been living horses that had been turned to wood by an enchantment . |
| 12 | They 'd both been riding clouds that morning , now this . |
| 13 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |
| 14 | ‘ I think Jimi would have still been fusing things , and when he got done finding everything that he could fuse together then he would have invented a couple more things and then fused them with everything else . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've all been playing games with me . ’ |
| 16 | The photographer had obviously been studying portraits of Betty Grable and other film stars and was trying to be very artistic , with much back lighting and fluffing out of hair , and I must admit that my hair ( touching my shoulders , naturally ) , did look nice . |
| 17 | Before the move he had already been planting exotics in the sheltered garden with a slope to the south-west ; an ideal situation for the rare trees he collected over the next twenty years . |
| 18 | As soon as she entered the room she knew that Clare had already been telling tales ; or at least complaining to her colleagues . |
| 19 | In later life he seems to have returned to his early interest in astronomy ( on which he had already been writing papers at the age of eighteen ) . |
| 20 | THOSE OF you who remember Sly & Robbie 's so-called golden period , when students would approach reggae DJs and ask for ‘ something by Sly & Robbie ’ when the DJ had already been playing records driven by them all night , had better get used to some changes . |
| 21 | I 've just been taping loads , four . |
| 22 | If you 've already been wearing glasses you must still be given a prescription , even if your sight has n't changed . |
| 23 | He had had his own darkroom , and had always been taking pictures . |
| 24 | Makeshift barriers closed off corridors , marking out the territory of rival gangs , while elsewhere emergency doors had been removed and new corridors created through what had once been living quarters . |
| 25 | And Leo had also been taking steps to revivify the influence of religion at other levels . |
| 26 | I had also been having problems with my gut . |
| 27 | In the 1950s , attention was directed to the fact that manual workers had increasingly been earning wages directly comparable to those of white-collar and supervisory staff . |
| 28 | The local Phalangist headquarters were deserted but a Syrian officer , who had earlier been distributing leaflets describing the Syrian army as ‘ an envoy of brotherly love and peace ’ , brusquely jumped down from his tank and uprooted a Phalangist sign designating Kahhale a military zone . |
| 29 | I had recently been representing consumers on the National Consumer Council , as well as chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council . |
| 30 | ‘ Then , of course , the cataclysmic events of of 1989 and the recommendations of the Youth Commission , which attributed the debacle partly to the loss of credibility in the media , have all been determining factors . |