Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years AI has been calling for an independent judicial inquiry to investigate the pattern of disputed killings by security forces in Northern Ireland in order to help prevent unlawful killings . |
| 2 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 3 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 4 | At the same time , Britain has been developing into an increasingly plural society , with a major increase in the size of the non-white ethnic groups alongside a decline in the size of the white population . |
| 5 | As for the comments made by Opposition Members about the reduction in the number of trainees in the industry , regrettably that has to be explained by the fact that the industry has been going through an especially difficult time and still is . |
| 6 | But the Shelby County Commission has been pressing for an investigation since the 1991 book The Death of Elvis : What Really Happened , quoted doctors as saying Presley died of a drug overdose . |
| 7 | Almost from the outset , the measure provoked fierce ethical debate , and while the 12 nations of the European Community continued to grapple with commercial aspects of biotechnology , the 26-nation Council of Europe has been working toward an international convention on human rights questions in bioethics . |
| 8 | Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 . |
| 9 | I hope your mind has been working in an expansive way and that you have thought more about your future . |
| 10 | HOPES were fading last night for an Anglesey man who has been missing in an Alaskan wilderness for five days . |
| 11 | Meanwhile Fernanda Eberstadt has been practising as an expert on captivity and escape , and on the beliefs established for later generations by the children of Israel . |
| 12 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 13 | For more than 2 years , Richard Goodsell , from Henley , has been waiting for an operation on an arthritic finger . |
| 14 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 15 | Harriet Ryley has been talking to an organic farmer who believes in putting the environment before profits . |
| 16 | Robin Powell has been talking to an Oxfordshire woman just elected , who takes a less optimistic view . |
| 17 | The film has been showing to an empty room . |
| 18 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 19 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 20 | ‘ I feel as though I 'd been living under an anaesthetic for years and years . ’ |
| 21 | What would these people think , I wondered , if they knew he 'd been living like an Apache most of his life and right up until a little while ago ? |
| 22 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 23 | Irena produced a suit from somewhere — I had nothing appropriate to wear and the Czechs dress up to go out — and on a cold wet evening Miroslav , who once behind his bassoon could n't stop smiling , dragged me in off Red Army Square where I 'd been waiting under an umbrella watching a group of Czech soldiers trying to stand up , and escorted me up to the balcony of the Fucik Hall to watch the performance . |
| 24 | She had n't realized until she was bumping along the road away from the dock that she 'd been shaking like an aspen leaf . |
| 25 | But perhaps Governor Clinton 's most remarkable achievement will have been bringing to an end the Reagan-Bush years . |
| 26 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 27 | At this time of the evening they 'd have been drinking for an hour . |
| 28 | He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time . |
| 29 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 30 | The 31-year-old victim 's wife , who had been drifting on an anchor line 10ft below their charter boat , was uninjured . |