Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Axil , which introduced other Sparc compatibles earlier on , says in has been shipping hundreds of units a month and is on the verge of moving to a thousand . |
| 2 | The rapist , who has been living rough in wooded , hilly countryside , grabbed his latest victim in a village near Chippenham , Wilts . |
| 3 | Mark who was born in the capital , has been living rough in Nottingham . |
| 4 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 5 | Hard experimental evidence for the existence of this energy has been lacking due to the imperfections of both chemical and molecular physics , as well as self-imposed restrictions on the imagination . |
| 6 | Test kits to hand , Ian has been monitoring most of our tanks , with startling results . |
| 7 | The star has been getting used to the infatuations of Luke-crazed girls . |
| 8 | He says that the river has been getting cleaner over the years so this is a setback . |
| 9 | He says that the river has been getting cleaner over the years so this is a setback . |
| 10 | JULIEANNE McConville ( 20 ) , has been modelling most of her life . |
| 11 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 12 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 13 | Moshe Gerstenhaber , chairman of Kall-Kwik Printing , has been using this as a promotional feature : ‘ If ever evidence was needed to prove the merits of franchising , the present difficult trading conditions have to be an example . ’ |
| 14 | A flotilla of surfers and canoes has been riding one of the year 's biggest Severn Bores . |
| 15 | Recently , the Atari ST has been selling bundled with £400-£500 worth of games for £399 . |
| 16 | The tank has an undergravel filter and a internal filter and has been running problem-free for about four months . |
| 17 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |
| 18 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd very much like to know , ’ he said , ‘ what Masklin has been doing these past few weeks … ’ |
| 20 | Jim is a founder member of the Elderslie Boys Club — which has been going strong in the area for seven years — and the Stoddards employee has himself contributed 17 years to Boys football . |
| 21 | People living near a rubbish tip which has been burning unchecked for six weeks fear their health is at risk . |
| 22 | A privately owned half-timbered cottage ( mostly 16th-century ) with pantiled roof and porches , it has been standing empty for years |
| 23 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 24 | My husband has been practising dying for years . |
| 25 | erm The Schools Council , erm as you may remember , has been putting millions of pounds into educational research over the last dozen years , and all kinds of new curriculum ideas and patterns of organisation have emerged . |
| 26 | Jill is 60 , and , since she retired early from her job as a dinner lady , has been caring full-time for her 90-year-old bedridden mother and for her husband who has Parkinson 's disease . |
| 27 | Apparently the old man has been hammering this into them for weeks . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 29 | Britain has been resisting much of this , but none too skilfully . |
| 30 | Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer . |