Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 32 | jack ’ , we discover , ‘ has been reading this epistle with a commentary but could get no help from it . ’ |
| 33 | The committee also decided in future to pay the CAB quarterly grants in advance , rather than in arrears which has been causing some cash flow problems . |
| 34 | This may not seem to be a very daunting task , but when a man who has been flying four engine jet transports all over the world is suddenly confronted with a young pilot who has just written-off the landing gear of a light aircraft while trying to land in a cross wind , the true qualities of the new inspector are under test . |
| 35 | And from Alan the new flats here , Norman helped by Dave and other members has been constructing substantial timber stroke hardboard flats although a bit heavier than the conventional canvas they will last for years and they really do provide superb sets as has been proved with all three plays presented this year . |
| 36 | A consultative panel on badgers has been meeting this week ; it 'll make recomendations to the Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , which may include the introduction of widespread TB testing . |
| 37 | John has been dreading this moment . |
| 38 | The Royal Mail , which for a number of years has been transporting first-class mail overnight by air , totally reorganised its operation at the end of September . |
| 39 | The department of health has been recommending early penicillin treatment in meningitis cases since nineteen eighty eight , but there 's never been any evidence that it works , until now . |
| 40 | Although the government has been pushing liquid petroleum gas ( LPG ) in metropolitan cities , its supply remains restricted to the upper middle class and the demand far outstrips the supply . |
| 41 | One or another young kid has been watching this place since I left . |
| 42 | But no news is good news , and Mr Clarke has been drawing some comfort from the fact that he has n't heard from his own local family doctor . |
| 43 | France has been expecting heavy snow all week to 1200m … and still waits . |
| 44 | It is pertinent that WHO has been sponsoring comparable field trials in African countries to confirm the adequacy of safety margins in case of inadvertent exposure to pest control agents . |
| 45 | Over the course of the year Steve Thurgood , sales manager for the water treatment section of Water & Ventilation , has been conducting on-site training in water treatment services to clients and prospects . |
| 46 | During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) . |
| 47 | The fine drizzle that has been falling all afternoon has not been enough to stop the match between Scotland and Ireland , but enough to keep the crowds away . |
| 48 | And our consultant has been running varied recycling for the last four years , and they are currently recycling seventy percent of the waste in that town . |
| 49 | It was Mr Nofomela 's confession to the killing — the day before he was due to be executed for the murder of a white farmer — which led to the disclosures that the force has been running professional death squads . |
| 50 | He has been studying German football , and Cologne in particular on satellite TV for the past few weeks . |
| 51 | its been , that has been blistering some time that , think its |
| 52 | Mr Brown has been having increasing pain and a " dragging " sensation in his right groin . |
| 53 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 54 | The Hydrogeology Group has been doing such work on behalf of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) : repeat drilling at five sites in the Chalk of East Anglia reveals decreased nitrate concentrations in the upper part of the unsaturated zone . |
| 55 | Yeah but but of course this chap has been doing this research in erm Bangladesh was n't it , I think ? |
| 56 | With Halloween looming , a farmer has been doing brisk business offering ’ pick your own ’ pumpkins . |
| 57 | Euless , Texas-based Xalt Software Corp 's Xalt Office , the suite of five graphically-based integrated applications including Desk , Diary , Notes , Mail and People Manager , is now immediately available for Sparc machines priced at $200 ; Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp versions are due any day now ; the company has been circulating early development copies since last September , and adding features and functions . |
| 58 | The California company has been circulating early development copies since last September and adding features and functions . |
| 59 | Liver transplantation has been gaining increasing support as a means of treating chronic end stage liver disease and fulminant hepatic failure . |
| 60 | Toni was one of 95 pupils from All Saints Catholic High School , Dukinfield , who has been gaining valuable work experience . |