Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now to the second of our reports from HMS Gloucester , which has been helping to enforce the United Nations sanctions against Serbia . |
| 2 | Along with with Robin Harris , past director of Conservative research department , who is joining the Downing Street policy unit , John O'Sullivan , editor of the US National Review and Sir Ronald Millar , playwright , Mr Patten has been helping to write the Prime Minister 's speech for today 's keynote address . |
| 3 | Cider makers and drinkers have been gathering to find the best farmhouse cider in Britain . |
| 4 | I 've been dying to make a good ginger pudding for years ! |
| 5 | Dock Workers Union leaders have been meeting to consider a national dock strike over Government plans to scrap the jobs for life scheme . |
| 6 | Since then the ILN has been seeking to find a new readership . |
| 7 | By contrast , the Scottish Tories had been lobbying to keep the maximum personal element . |
| 8 | Since we last wrote , we have been lobbying to achieve the same relaxation for voluntary drivers from sport as is proposed to be granted to those driving in a voluntary capacity for charities . |
| 9 | The long-term trends in population redistribution during the latter half of the twentieth century have broadly been serving to undo the principal features of population change in the nineteenth century when the North 's share of national population increased and people concentrated into the major urban and industrial agglomerations . |
| 10 | OVER the past few weeks I have been attempting to assess the relative marketing merits of companies as diverse as theatre companies , electrical retailers and peat producers . |
| 11 | Nationally , the company has been attempting to win a higher degree of commitment from the workforce . |
| 12 | Of course he had n't been going to fill the bloody canal in ! |
| 13 | Significantly , while Philips have been hurrying to launch the first full size CD-I players , Sony — notionally , Philips ' CD-I partners — have made no announcements about CD-I plans other than to show the palmtop device and to speak obliquely about other announcements to follow . |
| 14 | The trust has been fundraising to build a modern workshop alongside the cruck-framed barn . |
| 15 | People have been flocking to see a controversial production of Swan Lake . |
| 16 | New Yorkers have already been flocking to see the high-tech film where they decide how to shape the quick-change plot by pressing buttons on a joystick . |
| 17 | Mr Clarke unknowingly stole the thunder of Douglas Hurd , the Home Secretary , who had been intending to make a veiled public appeal for more cash for the police services in the law and order debate . |
| 18 | Three people with incendiary devices were found in a car … they said they had been intending to commit a serious crime and they just walk out of court . |
| 19 | Mrs Jordan said she supported local councillor Joe Michna who has been fighting to save the common and to stop the sports complex licence . |
| 20 | I 've been hoping to find the right opportunity for weeks . |
| 21 | These comprise several features : employment has fallen in most branches of manufacturing and in some parts of the service sector ; land has been diverted from residential use by office expansion , road construction and slum clearance ; more mobile people have been leaving to escape the poor physical environment and the social problems ; new private house-building has been discouraged by high costs , land hoarding by local authorities and uncertainties about sales potential ; and falling household size has reduced the capacity of the overall housing stock ( Cameron , 1980 ; Evans and Eversley , 1980 ; Kennett and Hall , 1981 ; Lawless , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | Since taking over from Left-winger David Hunt , former Thatcherite Mr Redwood has been trying to reassure the Welsh that there will be no dramatic change in Welsh Office policy . |
| 23 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 24 | In addition to normal responsibilities , which include making new investments , approaching new potential customers and keeping existing customers happy , Mr Queen says that they have been trying to educate the professional community to recognise when a company is going to need more working capital . |
| 25 | We have been trying to stop the deteriorating effects of ageing on our skin since the times of the pharaohs . |
| 26 | FOR SEVERAL years , my husband has been trying to join the Labour Party . |
| 27 | They have been trying to design a new force structure that would both live within the expected budget cuts and be capable of responding effectively to all imaginable crises . |
| 28 | Donors , including the EC and the World Bank , have been trying to persuade the Kenyan government to privatize grain marketing since 1984 . |
| 29 | In the past few years , many systematists have been trying to improve the scientific rigour of their subject , mostly by reformulating it in accord with Popperian-type hypothetico-deductive methods . |
| 30 | Staff at the police photographic department , Ministry of Defence laboratories and IBM have been trying to improve the original blurred images of the youths . |