Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Regional Council has been considering the likely impact of a fixed link since the early 1980s , and in 1984 a study commissioned from consultants Bechtel-France resulted in a comprehensive planning strategy . |
| 32 | Peter Scudamore has been building a new future since his retirement . |
| 33 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Britain 's champion in the sport has been lending a helping hand . |
| 36 | In reality what has been happening is that humanity , driven by the inexorable power of the primordial desire for earthly happiness , has been producing a constant stream of decisions from which the good , which will ultimately help with the building of the Created God , have been extracted . |
| 37 | There has been one very disturbing factor in keeping this particular type of fish , and that has been discovering the incredible cruelty that is sometimes used in order to increase the sale of them . |
| 38 | Well I think no greater no other individual but Paddy Ashdown has been providing a healthy lead , but sadly it 's one where he 's been citing a a an approach to Bosnia one month . |
| 39 | Tam Dalyell has been reading the second Brandt report |
| 40 | Karl Hammond has been reading the Royal Society 's report on risk |
| 41 | The position of the Dip.HE courses offered by the colleges and institutes of higher education has been causing the Welsh Office some concern because some of the units in specific subject areas which make up the courses have been recruiting small numbers of students : in 1980–1 , for example , between 30 and 40 per cent of them were enrolling fewer than eight students . |
| 42 | The president himself has quashed rumours that Egypt has been pursuing an Arab peace initiative , and rejected the idea of any ceasefire until the Iraqis have promised to withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 43 | As part of a national sponsorship managed through WWF , the Central Electricity Generating Board has been funding the key conservation post of warden for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Naturalists ' Trust . |
| 44 | The survey , described briefly in ref. 1 , has been searching the southern sky for millisecond and other low-luminosity pulsars since July 1991 , using the Parkes 64-m radiotelescope at 430MHz . |
| 45 | He has been searching the dark realm , a moving shadow flowing through the looping Interiors ; dark , dimlit , floodlit . |
| 46 | In London , a small group of clinical research nurses based in the St Peter 's group of hospitals and the Royal College of Surgeons has been meeting every two months for over a year , calling themselves the Clinical Research Nurses Association . |
| 47 | Another Harlequin , Everton Davis , has been seeking a second opinion on the knee injury that forced him out of last month 's England training session . |
| 48 | For five centuries , society has been seeking an aesthetic constitution correspondent to its civilization . |
| 49 | Ms Jerry Hall , the Texan mannequin delivered of her third child , has been articulating the deep relationship she shares with Mr Michael Jagger , the confectionery-loving vocal stylist with the Rolling Stones ( a once popular beat ensemble , M' lud ) . |
| 50 | The former building firm supervisor has been tending the 200 square meter allotment near his Newton home for the past eight years . |
| 51 | A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye . |
| 52 | In addition to pressure for defence cuts , the Mitterrand administration has been wooing the two Green parties . |
| 53 | It 's been five years since Zoë Fairbairns last published a novel , during that time she has been writing a huge and compelling family saga , Daddy 's Girls . |
| 54 | Sir James has been lobbying the prime minister for a scheme to use official aid money to buy up Third World debt , sell off the principal , and swap the right to interest payments for a lease on tropical rain forests . |
| 55 | It seems that he has been using the free post to send out quantities — I do not know how many — of his so-called ’ Annual Report ’ . |
| 56 | Mr Kelloway has been developing a rear cross conveyor , which will allow two swathes to be combined in one row . |
| 57 | In recent years , when there have been reductions in public funding for housing associations , it has been developing an increasing proportion of properties for sale in order to maintain and expand its activities . |
| 58 | One of the people who has been developing an information-processing model intended to describe how production of spoken sentences is achieved is Garrett ( 1975 , 1980 , 1982 ) . |
| 59 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |
| 60 | MUCH AS he has been donning the hornrimmed glasses and adopting his Clark Kent persona of late , Curtly Ambrose has few equals when it comes to persuading a cricket ball to move faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall batsmen in a single bound . |