Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The star has been getting used to the infatuations of Luke-crazed girls . |
| 3 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd been fitter I would have been sitting next to him on that aeroplane , ’ said heartbroken Fiona , who had nicknamed her lover the ‘ Kiwi Crocodile Dundee . ’ |
| 5 | We heard today they were supposed to have been getting engaged to er a seventy year old woman ! |
| 6 | Who 's , the one who 's supposed to have been getting engaged to son , and they call him David . |
| 7 | Ms Harris ought to have been preaching this to her clients and taking note of it herself . |
| 8 | Gilbert had been standing next to them and almost fell down the stairs in his efforts to get away from those doors as something shouldered them open . |
| 9 | And then a sound , as if she had been standing next to a huge thunderclap . |
| 10 | Spraying conventional crops with fungicides costs US$750 a hectare a year and is a hazard to the health of plantation workers and the environment ; there is also evidence that black sigatoka had been becoming resistant to the chemicals . |
| 11 | Together with Toby Freely , the fresh-faced young man who had been sitting next to Tom Tedder , she brought up , modestly , the rear of the exodus . |
| 12 | Rory , who had been sitting next to Jessica on a large warm stone , stood reluctantly . |
| 13 | Middle-aged , plump and perspiring , the garrulous American couple who were ‘ doing Europe ’ had been sitting next to Luce on the flight from London . |
| 14 | Lately however , many of its opponents have been getting used to the idea . |
| 15 | Those who have been living near to parents or who have remained in very close touch with them , are going to feel the immediate absence of the parent they loved more keenly than those who have broken away from close family ties and kept up only a dutiful contact with father or mother . |