Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A project designed to keep bored youngsters from resorting to car crime by giving them motorbikes to play with has been receiving some expert advice . |
| 2 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 3 | The 28-year-old actor has been taking some time off to get his life back in order after filming three movies due out this year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | its been , that has been blistering some time that , think its |
| 7 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 8 | And , you know , he 's been very wheezy and pro and , and , and er , and has a , er , ha has been suffering some sort fluey cold . |
| 9 | Already Dublin has been showing some concern , since they will be submitted as British government rather than Anglo-Irish proposals . |
| 10 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 11 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 12 | He had big banks of lights and speakers on either side of his console with some lower-level relays here in the ballroom ; he 'd been running some smoke and dry ice earlier , and some of it still hung in the air and gave the lighted area beyond the doorways the effect of some offworld film set . |
| 13 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 14 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 15 | But I bumped into Chris who 'd been doing some session work with Steve ( Buzzcocks ) Diggle , who was looking for a guitar player to do a few gigs , and Chris kind of trapped me into that . |
| 16 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 17 | He must have been causing some problems . |
| 18 | Although there may have been surviving some notion of the tradition of ordered government from the ancient world , in actuality Rome had no strong , centralized government since classical times . |
| 19 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 20 | Erm which would give you some contact with erm , er you know people who 'd er er just come out of prison or , or you know had been serving some sort of sentence or other , you know , maybe not a custodial one or something . |
| 21 | It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of ‘ comfort ’ from Bank of Edinburgh 's largest minority shareholder , Scottish Amicable , with 39.2 per cent , effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role . |
| 22 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 23 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 24 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 25 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |
| 26 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 27 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 28 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |
| 29 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 30 | Mala , who had been doing some thinking of her own , looked at me uneasily . |