Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Co Londonderry school has been promoting greater European awareness since September and has arranged two foreign trips to mark their continued efforts . |
| 2 | In the vestry and in his bungalow , under the pretext of extra rehearsal , he has been fondling these big brown girls and offering them cigarettes and money for sex . |
| 3 | The emotionally devastating effects of non-accidental injury , especially to children , has been receiving dramatic mass media coverage recently . |
| 4 | Two floors up , behind her desk , sits manager Marlene Ross — the powerhouse who has been managing top Gaelic rockers , Runrig , for 12 years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | M. Grassa has been producing outstanding white wine from the local grape varieties for many years . |
| 9 | THE Bill Wells Octet has been exploring some unusual stylistic directions in the context of the Scottish jazz scene , but this appearance did not live up to expectations . |
| 10 | I take on the role of the mayor to ask — " What on earth has been causing all this damage ? " |
| 11 | The offer was accepted with alacrity and Harry has been writing these little vignettes for the paper ever since . |
| 12 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 13 | One thing I think I know now , though — where she has been hiding all this time . |
| 14 | A government supermarket in New Delhi has been selling 10 solar cookers every day for the past few months for about £20 each . |
| 15 | Geoff Boucher has been running this unofficial sanctuary for more than four years . |
| 16 | He has been studying this rare British plant since WWF funded his first project three years ago . |
| 17 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 18 | Wetland cultivation during Classic Maya times has been attracting much archaeological attention in recent years . |
| 19 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 20 | Even the S MP syllabus , which is probably quite well known , most schools in Sussex deal a little bit with the S MP New Maths Syllabus , which has been going twenty thirty years now , but even that was originally written for O-level , and then a version for C S E was introduced . |
| 21 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 22 | Bernard Dixon has been digesting some bizarre eating habits |
| 23 | I am told he has been preparing some appropriate acts . |
| 24 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 25 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
| 26 | The same old crowd , but he 'd been seeing much less of them . |
| 27 | Yeah , well even Laura like she eats salad at school like you know , but erm , she 's got erm , what did we have the other night cos we 'd been eating semi semi Mediterranean food this week |
| 28 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 29 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |