Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lbw law states inter alia that the ball must have been going to hit the stumps . |
| 2 | With some notable exceptions , the costs of innovation have been rising to reinforce the barriers to entry and further concentrate already strongly oligopolistic industries . |
| 3 | Pepita had been trying to remember the events that led up to being bitten by the black widow spider . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been trying to unlock the doors of the cell using this device . |
| 5 | She 's been trying to get the Blaneys out for some time . |
| 6 | They 've been trying to get the police on the cheap for too long , and blaming us , and now I think the tables are very reversed . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been trying to get the traders out for eight years , but there have been so many obstructions . ’ |
| 8 | Oxfam has been trying to help the refugees er in the area , but Tony Jackson just back from Cambodia says it 's becoming harder for many to survive . |
| 9 | We have been trying to extract the figures from the Opposition . |
| 10 | He must have been trying to hide the feelings that the sight of Rocamar conjured up , for he himself had dubbed it a romantic dream — and the dream had failed . |
| 11 | As for the arms control matters , we have been working to improve the measures of arms control . |
| 12 | Since 1908 , the Research Defence Society has been working to counteract the efforts of the anti-vivisection movement . |
| 13 | Now , as will have been noticed , in all the examples I have given , one very crucial element has been missing to make the expressions grammatical as instances of standard English — we need determiners of some sort . |