Example sentences of "the [adj] has [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the latter has been wanting : ‘ I know it sounds daft . |
| 2 | Here the latter has been wanting : ‘ I know it sounds daft . |
| 3 | Trained by Peter Monteith at Rosewell , just outside Edinburgh , the nine-year-old has been waiting the good ground he will encounter today and , in the words of his trainer , with prizes going down to £4,000 for fourth place and £600 for sixth , ‘ it would be mad not to run him ’ . |
| 4 | In all the examples given so far the syllabic has been following another consonant ; sometimes it is possible for another consonant to precede that consonant , but in this case a syllabic consonant is less likely to occur . |
| 5 | The first has been fighting a ( largely losing ) battle against social condemnation of " stealing other people 's homes " ; the second has been the mechanism by which to carry out government 's policies to protect some short-term occupiers ( tenants , with exclusive possession ) but not others ( licensees ) . |
| 6 | Usually , the former has been talking about the latter . |
| 7 | The same has been happening in the steel industry with the advent of the mini-mills . |
| 8 | India in the 1980s has been exporting food . |